Stop the Propaganda Machine from Controlling How You Think and Vote: A Blueprint for Detecting Deception

By Mel Whitehurst

It is difficult and complex to ever really know if political leaders are telling the truth. Along with truthful communications often come lying, spin, hype, hate-speech and fear-mongering. Deciding what is truthful and what is deceptive takes considerable effort. However, the truth really matters.

Political leaders and the mass media collaborate in a business relationship to build a giant Propaganda Machine which collectively attempts to tell us how to think and vote by delivering enormous amounts of influence messages to us at an unrelenting pace.

In this book, I present several deception-detecting strategies that you can use to sort out statements for truth. I show numerous persuasion tactics political leaders use to convince us to think and vote the way they want us to think and vote. I describe how not to get controlled by the drama of political leaders' communications to persuade us to vote for them without at least making a smart effort to understand the real messages.

Most of the information in this book comes from my work experience as a psychologist for more than forty years, 27 of them in private practice. I also acquired information by carrying out several mini social psychology research projects as you will see when you read the book. Of course, I conducted extensive examination of psychological research journals. And, recently I've been talking to my family dog, Rocky Bob. He's a good listener and it's surprising what one can learn from a good listener when writing a book.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1523654902
• ISBN13: 9781523654901
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 52 Pages
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"