The Power of Positive Advertising

IN NINETEEN SEVENTY THREE THE CIA, that reputable servant of the citizens of the united states and expedient instrument of covert american foreign policy, overthrew the government of chile, because their president, salvadore allende, was a socialist.

America overthrows governments. In particular, socialistic governments which do not permit american corporate exploitation. Its just what the united states does. Shockingly, castro was never overthrown in cuba. At least, not yet.

Well, you can't win 'em all. At least we tried, and give credit where credit is due; we have made the cuban people miserable for fifty years, or tried to, and we're not done yet.

If obama hasn't taken the american boot off the cuban neck by now, he aint gonna. Hell, he couldn't even close the prison in guantanamo, which he pledged to do, much less return gitmo to the cubans, which we the american people should do, and should have done, long ago. We, the corporate sheep.

The chilean CIA  sponsored  revolution was just another example of america being america. Do not make the mistake of being a socialist country when american corporations wish to expolit your people or your natural resources, just ask cuba. It'll get you quarantined, blockaded, or killed.

The man the CIA put in power in chile turned out to be a monster, as do many of the various people around the world whom the united states has put in power. Monster pinochet inexplicably decided, after fifteen years of butchering his own people, that he wanted to make himself look better in the eyes of the world.

So, he allowed the people of chile to vote on whether to keep him. Everyone expected he would win the election, because people were afraid to NOT vote for him. His opponents were permitted only a small amount of nocturnal television time, during which they planned to point out pinochet's monstrous crimes.

A clever advertising expert realized that showing guns and tanks and death would not inspire people to vote against the dictator, and the opposition soon started showing advertising which depiced a beautiful, happy country if pinochet were defeated. Positive campaigning.

The campaign worked, the people voted pinochet out, shockingly, and the power of positive thinking, and positive advertising, popular courage was affirmed. If only american politicians would learn this lesson. Ironic, that the power of advertising and democracy served to undo american imperial tyranny. Sometimes the world seems upside down.