❗ The stakes of the election are enormous: either we defend our peace and security, or we allow warmongering and political instability to take over. Once we give in to destructive forces, it will be extremely difficult to undo—no matter which government comes afterward. Let’s not take the risk.
👉 I was a guest on the podcast The Other Side, where we discussed these decisive, fate-shaping questions among many other topics.
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In my view, it is not a solution when someone, instead of doing their own job, resorts to the political act of pointing fingers at others. In politics as well, what you do not say and do not show will not be visible. If someone messes this up once, then any government may come afterward—it is not something that can really be undone.
1️⃣ “The stakes of the election are enormous” – Existential framing
“either we defend our peace and security, or…”
What is happening?
The election is not presented as a choice between political alternatives, but as a matter of existence itself.
🎯 Technique: Existential framing
👉 Anyone who is not “with us” is positioned as being against peace and security.
2️⃣ Vague threat: “warmongering,” “destructive forces”
“warmongering and political instability”
“destructive forces”
What is missing?
- no names
- no concrete decisions
- no events
- no evidence
🎯 Technique: Vague enemy construction
👉 A faceless enemy onto which anything can be projected.
3️⃣ The irreversibility narrative
“once we give in… it will be extremely difficult to undo”
“then any government may come afterward”
What is happening?
The self-correcting capacity of democracy is being denied.
🎯 Technique: Point-of-no-return framing
👉 If you don’t vote this way now, everything is lost forever.
This is strong fear-based mobilization.
4️⃣ “Let’s not take the risk!” – Command-style closure
This is not an argument, but an instruction.
🎯 Technique: Command framing
👉 Obedience replaces thinking.
5️⃣ Media legitimization: The Other Side podcast
“I was a guest on The Other Side podcast”
🎯 Technique: Authority & platform laundering
👉 The message is disguised as a “conversation,” not as a campaign message.
(The fact that it appears in a podcast does not make it any less propaganda.)
6️⃣ Projection: “pointing fingers at others”
“it is not a solution to point fingers at others”
What is the contradiction?
The entire text:
- points fingers at others
- constructs a nameless enemy
- shifts responsibility
🎯 Technique: Projection
👉 What the speaker is doing is precisely what they accuse others of.
7️⃣ “What you don’t show won’t be visible” – Pseudo-wisdom
This is an empty, cliché truism that:
- proves nothing
- yet sounds like “common sense”
🎯 Technique: Common sense fallacy
👉 The lack of substance is replaced with the appearance of wisdom.
8️⃣ Overall picture – in short
This text:
- generates fear
- manufactures a vague enemy
- turns the election into a fatal, irreversible moment
- denies democratic feedback and correction
- applies moral pressure
It does not debate.
It directs.
Key sentence that sums it all up
“If someone messes this up once, it can hardly be undone.”
This is not analysis.
This is psychological coercion.