About nefarious social behavior by commons as well as applied in politics

Charlie Chaplin as Hitler in the "Dictator"

Over and over we see implicit posts in social media with obscure meanings. Surprisingly we will see an abundance with likes and comments like: “that’s it”, “right on”, “hallelujah” often only one or 2 words. It may be close to impossible to decipher the message as it could be a joke, sarcasm or just something simple and sincere, yet comments are plentiful, short and euphoric. You would not know unless you post a question running the risk to be dissed by the poster or by the crowd, the followers. Not many question or want to know what a post mean because of the risk to come out as a jack-ass. Commonly when the poster "resembles" a woman, "she" has a nice presentation profile photo and thus attracted many males to follow "her". What "she" writes or expresses does not matter much, already hooked by "her" beauty, what matters is to show adoration and that is achieved by showing up, making a like or a simple positive comment. What the posters motivation or goal is cannot easily be deduced, it could be for just being seen by as many as possible, it could be for collecting followers to funnel them into some bonus program or expose them to products. Profit is not an unlikely objective.

Now, by taking this example and reasoning over to politics makes the whole thing becoming very interesting. To get to where we want to be in politics we need followers, some that just makes likes (votes) and some that comments by forming a choir singing our simple refrain. Starting off we would need a nice facade and sugared up messages. The facade is like the social media profile photo and banner, the messages are like the posts. We are not interested in followers that analyses everything we say, we only need a lot of followers voting for us and shouting “hallelujah”. If everything goes according to this plan we’ll be in government in next election. Now in the position to govern a country no matter what our motif and ambitions was or would be, we need to keep and build our army of followers, some that just likes what we do and some forming the “choir” singing our song (press and media). The strategy would be to be visible on stage and in media with messages, implicit and obscure and hard to decipher but with a nice sounding tune that makes easy to sing-along. And the result: an army of Zombies raising the arm towards us, greeting us with “sieg heil” and with an armlet with a Swastika on it. This is what Hitler and his thugs did, Tony Blair with his labor party and recently the conservative Swedish “nya moderaterna” and its Allianz government.

It is so easy to understand a strategy like this from being and “living” on social media like Facebook and Google+. There is no “dislike” button and being social means: don’t question my post, just like it or be sweet. In Facebook and Google+ questioning surely mean being blocked or attacked and dissed by a horde of followers. In Hitler’s Germany or Stalin’s Soviet it meant labor camp or execution

Another important “social media” aspect is to funnel out the information in society so that 1 “like” will be seen as 1000, which is done in Google+ by interconnecting services like YouTube, Blogger, Google Drive, Google+ and virtually any service they provide to the user as free. In electronics it is called fan-out. Facebook does the same by interconnecting Facebook itself with Instagram and 45 other services.  How is this multiplication effect done in politics? Easy, buy out press and media and use one single information database for the “messages”, the party leader is the editor in chief. Apart from this, use what is free from Google and Facebook for your purposes.

Would it be unfair or slander to picture the architect of the Swedish conservative parties successful "social" media campaign as the former national socialistic party's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels? It is an amusing thought but, no, I don't think so. It must be seen as a compliment.