вЂњOur tribe is motivated by love, care, and affiliationвЂќ while the tribal outgroup is вЂњsinister and motivated by hate!вЂќ or вЂњBlack Lives Matter means that White Lives DonвЂ™t MatterвЂќ to name just a few of these motive attribution asymmetry narratives.Line is a graduate of Virginia Tech where she received her Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication and Political Science.

the classic dehumanizing asymmetric tribal motivesВ narrativesВ e.g.,.

non-stop hate or conspiracy theory propaganda and.

narrative tribal ideological structure (read вЂњtaking our country backвЂќ).

a universe of tribal symbols (read white MAGA hat-wearing rally-goers).

Trump has demonstrated that he innately understands these ruling concepts of human psychology better than anyone ever thought possible.Д«ut like feral Trumpism, this is also why the Fox News tribal warfare production playbook feeds its 80вЂ“90 million monthly users (combined cable/website/social media platforms and YouTube) a steady stream of audiovisual tribal identity activation propaganda narratives and reality perceptions complete with

Next, Fox News tribal hate propaganda segment producers and tribal hate televangelist hosts deeply understand that human psychology is not and never has been about вЂњrealityвЂќВ - it is about perceptionВ and itвЂ™s all about our tribally accepted narrativesВ (i.e., contagious stories) factual or not. Our real superpower at Fox News is that 85%+ of our audiences are just absolutely clueless to the powerful cognitive manipulation techniquesВ that are baked into every 7вЂ“8 minute Fox News opinion segment. I, like other long-timers in the Fox News вЂњfair and balancedвЂќ charade, know that our secret superpower over our audience is not our amazing personality, looks, and charm.

I know this because I performed or hosted over 2000 segments of Fox NewsвЂ™ tribal hate propaganda. They are produced into all Fox News tribal hate video content - a fact of which the tribalized Fox News addicts are clueless and unaware. AmericaвЂ™s Foxhole syndrome is a direct result of multiple highly powerful and emotionally predatory strategies and tactics I learned to master at Fox News. What I am saying that in most cases, their Fox News addiction is not their faultВ per se - that your parent, relative or long-time friend who fell into the Fox News addict rabbit hole was not by mistake. Now I can hear you saying вЂњSo you are saying my mom/dad/uncle/aunt/relative/friend is a victim of Fox News?

85% of Fox News fans and viewers we polled are tribal hate media illiteratesВ who fail to possess the bare minimumВ amount of basic psychology and social science self-awareness required to consume Fox NewsвЂ™ white tribal identity activation propaganda content in a mentally healthy manner.

Many Americans, who have witnessed this Fox News addiction вЂњraptureвЂќ firsthand (whereby an agree-to-disagree loved one is transformed into raging tribalized hyperpartisan nutjob), have come to refer to Fox News as вЂњFoxycontinвЂќ because of the addictive nature and massive size of its tribal hate porn audience.

Your Fox News addict family member is likely one of 80 million Americans for whom someone in the family is estranged from over their hyper-partisan nuclear powered scorched earth political intensity

America has a massive epidemic of addiction to Fox NewsвЂ™s unique brand of tribal hate propaganda video porn programming.Once again I ask you to consider this recent consumer polling research by my firm Transformity Research from 1000 highly targeted Facebook polling responses which concludes: This article is adapted from вЂњ Foxocracy: Inside the NetworkвЂ™s Playbook of Tribal WarfareвЂќ by NY Times bestselling author and 14-year Fox News contributor and guest host Tobin Smith.

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