They know! As the professor in the MBA class said — 90% of advertising is wasted; we just don’t know which 90%.

They’re still effective, for some people and in some situations, but… The heydey of it all, back when the Democrats could use the new mass marketing skills developed by advertisers to turn the entire country against one of its largest internal ethnic groups, and bring on things that nobody thought would work? I think that those may well be gone. The “acceptance rate” for the propaganda machine back when it was demonizing “the Hun” and German-Americans in general, along with bringing in Prohibition was a lot higher than anything we see today. Even after four years of anti-Trump propaganda, he still got at least half the vote… Which tells us that there are fewer and fewer “gullible believers” these days. Christ, even my hard-core Democrat acquaintances admit that the last election was largely fraudulent, and all they’ll say about it was that “it had to be done…” and that it was a “good thing…”. They still admit, when put to the question, that it was largely fraud that put Biden/Harris over the top.

This is a major change, and I suspect plays into why the elites are panicking. They’re not used to a situation where they can’t sway public mass opinion, and the idea that they won’t be able to, in the future…? Terrifying.

I don’t think that the advertising dollars go as far as they used to, in terms of sales. If there’s no underlying value, you won’t make the sales. All advertising and that other BS accomplishes these days is to put your product out there for people to find out about, and try it. If it doesn’t work? No more sales.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: If advertisers ever find out how little effect their money has, they’d likely lose their flippin’ minds.

Those of us with no TV, no cable, no radio, no newspaper, no Facebook / Twitter / MeWe / Tiktok / Instragram / whatever are just a rounding error on their statistics.

Still, even disconnected that far, I’m still bombarded by propaganda and risibly fake news. The average person lives at the end of a fire hose of that stuff.

John Leibowitz was right.

I guess none of their stuff works if we simply choose not to pay any attention to it.