Q: Nelson Mandela was sold to a gullible liberal Western world as some sort of peaceful savior, even as his Communist ANC party targeted civilians with bomb attacks in South Africa to seize power there. Now that South Africa has been reduced to the crime and AIDS capital of the world, and more recently the ground zero for vicious attacks on foreign blacks by South African blacks, whilst Mandela and his ANC cronies have become immeaurably wealthy just as their black populations' living standards have deterioated to levels far below what they were under white minority rule, is it now time to see this thug for what he is - a vicious Communist charlatan?
A: Brad, the people that didn't actually lived in South Africa or those that were too young to remember, will never realise how vile these supposedly heroes of the ANC are. The ANC under the leadership of the old communist system and Mandela have mislead their followers into believing in false heroic deeds. They were and still are just rank and file communist thugs. The sad fact is that the majority still keep on believing in this so called liberators although their living and economic situation did not improve. Propaganda may be administered in insidious ways. For instance, disparaging disinformation about the history of certain groups or foreign countries may be encouraged or tolerated in the educational system. Since few people actually double-check what they learn at school, such disinformation will be repeated by journalists as well as parents, thus reinforcing the idea that the disinformation item is really a "well-known fact". The disinformation is then recycled in the media and in the educational system, without the need for direct governmental intervention on the media. Such permeating propaganda may be used for political goals: by giving citizens a false impression of the quality or policies of their country or leaders, they may be incited to reject certain proposals or certain remarks or ignore the experience of others. Join the crowd: This technique reinforces people's natural desire to be on the winning side. This technique is used to convince the audience that a program is an expression of an irresistible mass movement and that it is in their best interest to join.