In today’s political climate, Leftist propaganda isn’t a threat. It’s irrelevant.

I say this as someone who firmly believes in capitalism and limited government.

Fascism is the only threat that matters right now.

Oh it absolutely does, but nowhere near the volume as rightist propaganda.

Literally all of the major news channels are owned by conservative billionaires now. And a substantial amount of newspapers. They bought your local TV news, too…and in doing so they bought your trust.

Every time I click on a conservative news source, there are half-truths, lies through omission and/or emotional language in an active voice. All the news channels have talking heads scream-talking in an elevated, authoritative voice and have banners run across the bottom in all caps as if it’s yelling at you. It wants your attention, and it wants you to think it’s important and scary.

These are age-old tactics of yellow journalism. Does it happen in leftist news? Sure, sometimes. Not nearly the same level.

The problem is, generally speaking, the full story with whole-facts is damning to the right. So they keep only the news that works for them.

If this wasn’t obvious by the time Kellyanne Conway got up on Meet The Press and told us about “Alternative Facts”, then it should’ve been by the time Trump talked about Haitians eating pet dogs on the debate stage.

I think there’s only a small handful of leftists in American politics at all, and that their propaganda apparatus would be small, if it exists at all. Maybe centrist, neoliberal propaganda, but leftist? Where?