Corbyn: The Top 10 Media Mind Games

Headfuck (Noun)

Anything confusing, that interferes with the usual functioning of the brain – particularly something that is offered as a literal truth but which is logically circular and absurd if examined.

The corporate media is trying to headfuck us out of voting for Corbyn with a series of logic loops designed to drive you out of your rational mind. 

Here are the top ten.

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We the corporate media….

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…will report today that Corbyn is unelectable because we will report tomorrow that he is unelectable – therefore he is unelectable. We create the truth and will decide future of truth – so the truth today is whatever we will be reporting tomorrow. There is no truth external to our ‘coverage’ of it – it is very important you believe this, for it is the truth.

…will insist via faux news articles that the populist support for Corbyn is a conspiracy amongst fringe ‘hard left’ organisations like the Trades Union and Socialist Coalition and Left Unity. This makes sense because their tiny membership and electoral support (less than 1%) can somehow be responsible for a mass movement.

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…the historical opponents of Labour for decades, are so convinced that Corbyn will not get  elected that we urge you not to vote for him. Don’t consider too carefully (or at all) why we are apparently campaigning against our own vested interest.

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…say that giving front page space for Tony Blair to rubbish Corbyn is responsible journalism.

Tony Blair has a conflict of interest as he would face a criminal trial if Corbyn were Labour prime minister . We don’t give space for this because we are responsible journalists.

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…pay for columnists to opine that to get the politics you want, you must vote for politicians who have refused to deliver them in the past and who refuse to offer them now.

In this way you will get politicians you don’t want offering polices you don’t want – but in power – this is a good thing that has worked splendidly in the past.

…say that Labour faces powerful enemies like the banks, the city and the corporate media. The only way to challenge their power is not to upset them but to be friendly and to always give them what they want – otherwise they might take the good jobs they don’t provide and the corporation tax they don’t pay elsewhere. Corbyn might upset the banks by trying to reform them – so don’t vote for him.

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…insist that the only way to win the electorate’s trust is to agree with right wing narratives on everything – only then will Labour gain credibility and win the argument they are not making. Corbyn is arguing against right wing narratives and that is less effective than agreeing with them.

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…are outraged on behalf of a movement we have opposed since its formation, that socialists might be infiltrating a movement set up by socialists to promote socialism. These enemy invaders are up to no good and may be guilty of harbouring socialist principles. Corbyn is a Trojan horse sneaking social democracy back into the Labour Party. Stop him!

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…are baffled that Corbyn has a plan for financial prudence which involves not spending £100 billion on nuclear weapons, collecting corporation tax the state is legally owed, closing loopholes so corporations have to pay their fair share of tax and not giving tax cuts to the ultra wealthy. These are obviously the actions of a spendthrift.

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…say that you should fear Corbyn because he is constantly being trivialised in the media. That we refuse to engage with his actual polices but instead examine more important matters like his sandals and private life merely adds credibility to our assertions that he lacks credibility.

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