NDC Goebbels’ Ways

“If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even believe it yourself,” a famous quote of Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda maestro is the path being traversed by the NDC and their assigns, some of them unfortunately in the media.

Speaking further about the inherent goodness in propaganda, the man whose infamy has earned those applying his ways the nomenclature, Goebbelsian, said “That propaganda is good which leads to success and that is bad which fails to achieve the desired results. It's not propaganda's task to be intelligent.”

Considering the ways of the NDC and their preference for propaganda regardless of how some of the tactics are so inferior and unintelligent, we cannot fail to see the glaring similarities between their ways and what Joseph Goebbels said.

Some of the lies are so unintelligently crafted that many wonder the level of intelligence of their originators at the party's propaganda office. But as we now know, it is not the task of propaganda to be intelligent.  Just spew it and see it spread especially on social media and the vulnerable and gullible will swallow it only to perhaps discover the inherent fallacy when they are choked.

Were Goebbels to be alive today, he would have admired the skills of the NDC at repeating lies and even believing them regardless of how much some of them are so crude, unconvincing and unintelligent.

Our stance is premised on the fact that the NDC's cornerstone policy of misinformation fits the bill of Goebbels' theory of repeated lies.

It is clear that the naysayers leading the charge of the NDC's Goebbelsian tactics are using the tool of misinformation to mislead the people. They have perfected the skills of Goebbels to such an extent that they make propaganda look like the truth. They drum it home so often that the undiscerning and even the knowledgeable sometimes get carried away.

If that is not the case, how come so-called credible media houses and economists happily latch onto the propaganda that the government has collaterised the country's gold, cocoa and gas resources to China for debt exchange.

Such a propaganda stunt's mission is intended to paint President Nana Akufo-Addo as a “sadist” who wants to make life unbearable for the people.

It is for a purpose that they are not telling Ghanaians that all our leaders have collaterised part of our resources for loans from China.

Opponents of government including some journalists who claim to be independent, credible and fearless are pushing this agenda to the high heavens, forcing the Chinese government to deny their claim. And yet these so-called angels committed to accountability have not found it ethical to state the reaction from the Chinese government.

We think the government has been lay back in responding to the misinformation by a section of the society. The media people pretend to have forgotten one of the basic lessons of first year journalism class where one is taught to always listen to the other side of the story in order to make the narrative fair and balanced.