Psychological Tricks That Politicians Use to Manipulate Us

They Do Everything They Can To Appeal To Emotion Rather Than Logic

One thing that Goebbels believed was that logic was definitely not the way to go when you were trying to convince a massive amount of people to think your own way. On the other hand, he believed that emotion was always the best way to appeal to people, and so he designed his propaganda to target people’s most base instincts. He once said that he believed that the best way to utilize propaganda was when it spoke what people already felt in their hearts. In other words, it wasn’t important to give people a message that made sense, but basically to tell them what they already wanted to hear.