The 2008 Presidential Campaign reared a myriad of sordid propaganda techniques from fear mongering images of terrorism to enticing depictions of quasi-socialism. Enthralled by repetitious exposure to the vicissitudes of the media, the American population became frozen in a psychosis of "Yes we can...fight al Qaeda and end poverty!"
Neo-propagandists such as David Axelrod of the Barack Obama campaign have fully asserted their mind manipulating tactics by invoking age-old fascist constructs wrapped in the flesh of pop culture. In summer 2008, the Barack Obama campaign released a television advertisement in which a chorus of young children sing praise to Obama. The ad dangerously invokes the subversive malevolence of the fascist youth brigades seen in Hitler's Germany and Maoist China.
In and of itself perhaps the ad could be dismissed as only slightly disingenuous and far from the realm of fascist propaganda, but given the stunning foray of similar youth targeting programs nationwide by the Obama campaign over the last six months such dismissal is hereto fatuous. As announced by Obama's Chief of Staff, Rham Emmanuel, programs are already in the works for youth ages 18 to 25 to manditorily conscript into "civil service" programs. In concert, this entente of social and youth programs promises big government and sharp changes to the very fabric of American society.
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