Post #4051427
2026-07-24 01:52 UTC
Anyone can be sold anything with the right words, that's the marketers' credo. That's fundamentally a #magic act, a transformation wrought with words and images, making the customer the pawn of an unholy ritual. Whenever #Democrats (or anyone else) gets preoccupied with "messaging" this is what they refer to, this profound conviction that the right words can change everyone's minds in a moment.
Dick Nixon was obsessed with #marketing. There have been many books analyzing how he and his gang made use of marketing magic to pump a semblance of trustworthiness and general audience appeal into the dour glowering Nixon.
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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-24 01:55
Nixon was unusually cheerless and grumpy because he had a residual conscience, a memory of being touched by the faithful spirit of his Quaker mother, who referred to her children in the old Quaker way--avoiding the overfamiliar "you" and sticking with the courteous use of "thou" and "thee". Nixon was fatally tempted and corrupted by proximity to absolute power but it gnawed at him that he'd fallen so far. He self-medicated to a terrifying degree. After his Presidency ended in disgrace, Dick Nixon returned to marketing himself, building a new image as an elder statesman. (cont'd)