It is pretty brilliant that they figured out that to get the "intellectual" professional class on board, all they had to do was make sure whoever spouted the lies sounded like a professor or touted impressive credentials.
Exactly. In an interview with Hede Massing - a communist recruiter in the USA - she
declares how almost impossible it was to get working class people into/working for the party but the more easy to get 'the intellectuals and the middle class' because of lofty ideas.
As it turns out, they are more susceptible than just about anyone else.
James put it perfectly: because they believe the credentialed other "experts".
T'is the credentialing that's the problem. If confers a counterfeit stamp of legitimacy, and thus, status: You're in, or you're out.
Status, not expertise, is the goal. Patronage is the reward of loyalists.
It is pretty brilliant that they figured out that to get the "intellectual" professional class on board, all they had to do was make sure whoever spouted the lies sounded like a professor or touted impressive credentials.
"He sounds like us. He speaks our language and wears our colors."
I call 'speaking Uni' a dialect. Talking to them outside of that dialect is like speaking French to a dog.
(I don't speak Uni, myself. Never learned the language. Thus, I have no authority, only the opinions of the uneducated, the grunting of hogs.)
Exactly. In an interview with Hede Massing - a communist recruiter in the USA - she
declares how almost impossible it was to get working class people into/working for the party but the more easy to get 'the intellectuals and the middle class' because of lofty ideas.
See 46-48 minute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZuHcPnni14&ab_channel=20thCenturyTimeMachine