(Opinion) The “Workers’ Cause Party” (PCO per its Portuguese abbreviation) is a pretend leftist cult that these days capabilities because the tip of the spear for President Lula’s disinformation marketing campaign geared toward manipulating the perceptions of his Workers’ Party’s (PT) base concerning his newly US-aligned international coverage.
Whether they had been secretly recruited to do that by high-ranking members of the PT or are doing so on their very own initiative to curry favor with it, there’s little doubt that the PCO is a part of the newest Hybrid War on Brazil.
This ongoing marketing campaign was analyzed at size right here however will be summarized because the psychological operations that distract from the “politically inconvenient” incontrovertible fact that Lula’s international coverage in his third time period is basically aligned with the ruling US Democrats’ liberal-globalist one.
The PT’s base is being misled about this to preemptively avert the state of affairs of them constructively critiquing his recalibrated worldview and thus elevating the probabilities that they efficiently strain him to vary it.
These Hybrid Warriors have monetary, ideological, and/or skilled stakes in preserving the US-aligned course Lula has charted for Brazil forward of the impending trifurcation of International Relations into the US-led West’s Golden Billion, the Sino-Russo Entente and the Global South.
The PCO’s disinformation merchandise are good examples of this affect operation in apply since this cult has appointed itself as his gatekeepers/inquisitors and is thus probably the most energetic drive overlaying up for him.
Closely following its narratives in help of Lula’s newly US-aligned international coverage can allow observers to intuit the angles with which the PT’s elite members are attacking their base by proxy, whether or not after secretly recruiting the PCO to take action or by winking in help of its self-interested actions.
The most instructive instance to date is indisputably the polar reverse spin it positioned on his coverage in direction of Nicaragua earlier than and after his resolution to host a whole lot of the US regime change brokers.
STEP ONE: VEHEMENTLY ARGUE AGAINST THE THEN-PROPOSAL
Before the Brazilian Ambassador to the UN was ordered by Lula on 7 March to precise “extreme concern” with that nation’s allegedly “serious human rights abuses” because the pretext for internet hosting these traitors who had been expelled to the US by Managua, this cult harshly condemned that very same coverage.
Their official newspaper printed a bit on 4 March titled “PSOL quer que Lula acolha agentes dos EUA expulsos da Nicarágua”, which attacked a Lula-supporting PSOL occasion for suggesting that he do that.
The PCO described this proposal as “in favor of imperialism, ” advancing the US-backed coup try in that Central American state.
They concluded of their diatribe that their PSOL opponent “only serves to confuse the struggle of the masses and thus facilitate the infiltration of the bourgeoisie in the workers’ movement.”
That last-mentioned declare will be interpreted as an try by the PCO to cowl up for its personal function by reaffirming its self-appointed perform as Lula’s gatekeepers/inquisitors.
STEP TWO: IMPLY THAT IT IS A CIA-BACKED IMPERIALIST PLOT
The cult then printed a follow-up piece sooner or later later, on 5 March, titled “Crença na democracia e liberalismo: o PSOL contra a Nicarágua,” wherein it very strongly implied {that a} main member of that occasion is a CIA agent by means of a number of levels of separation, thus explaining why he helps that coverage.
The PCO argued that these individuals in query aren’t politically persecuted, thus making them ineligible for refuge. It then condemned PSOL for its “close links to the ‘democratic’ sectors of imperialism.”
That last-mentioned assault was extremely ironic for the reason that PCO will be described in the very same method, particularly after it instantly flipped the script on this subject the second that Lula promulgated the coverage that that they had simply spent the final two back-to-back articles attacking.
Readers can be taught extra about why Lula aligned with the US on Nicaragua right here. This will be summarized merely as proof of his sharing its ruling Democrats’ liberal-globalist worldview.
The PCO clearly didn’t count on this.
Otherwise, it wouldn’t have attacked PSOL for its in the end profitable proposal that Lula himself embraced.
This cult’s chief may need been satisfied that the person who he delusionally fantasized about changing wouldn’t have betrayed his Nicaraguan counterpart like that because of their shut friendship, however no matter his considering was, it proved to be an unimaginable miscalculation that resulted within the PCO having to reverse its stance straight away shamelessly.
STEP THREE: OMIT KEY FACTS AFTER LULA PROMULGATES THIS POLICY
Instead of constant to sentence Lula’s provide to host a whole lot of the US regime change brokers to take care of ideological consistency, it enthusiastically supported his resolution with out explaining why it all of the sudden modified its place on this subject.
The day after this US-aligned coverage was promulgated, the PCO printed a bit on 8 March titled “Abaixo a ameaça de intervenção imperialista na Nicarágua!” wherein it screamed its help for Nicaragua.
Quite conspicuously however solely predictable for individuals who are already conscious of the PCO’s function in overlaying up for every part Lula does, the article made completely zero point out of their harsh criticism of this very same coverage days earlier than when it was solely proposed by the PSOL and had but to be practiced.
Nor, for that matter, was there any reference to Lula internet hosting these similar US-backed regime change brokers, who the PCO inexplicably determined to now discuss with as “political prisoners” in that textual content.
These three omissions of objectively current and simply verifiable truth – their prior condemnation of this coverage days prior, Lula’s embrace of the aforesaid, and their resolution to now not argue towards these people’ claims to be “political prisoners” – lead to that article being bonafide disinformation.
This time period refers to data propagated to deceive individuals, which is exactly what their article goals to do by deliberating omitting these three indeniable information.
STEP FOUR: DOUBLE DOWN ON THE DISINFORMATION NARRATIVE
The PCO’s subsequent piece of disinformation on this subject was printed later that very same day underneath the title “Lula enfrenta o imperialismo e defende a Nicarágua”.
It quotes their chief who counterfactually denied that Lula’s newest coverage in direction of Nicaragua is aligned with imperialism regardless of his cult’s official newspaper actually arguing in two back-to-back articles that this very same coverage is certainly imperialistic to the core simply earlier than him promulgating it.
Like the piece printed earlier that day, the PCO’s cult chief additionally conspicuously omitted any point out of Lula in the end embracing the identical coverage his official newspaper had railed towards.
Rather, this skilled disinformation agent tried to intentionally mislead his focused viewers by solely speaking about Brazil’s refusal to signal a joint declaration condemning Nicaragua, which he falsely framed as supposedly proving that Lula was nonetheless on the polar reverse aspect because the imperialists.
STEP FIVE: CONDEMN CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICS AS IMPERIALIST AGENTS
The PCO’s newest disinformation assault on the time of the current evaluation publication was launched on 10 March with the title “Cartel da imprensa golpista volta suas baterias contra Nicarágua”.
It is an particularly devious type of disinformation because it makes an attempt to gaslight the PT’s base into considering that any well-intended constructive critiques of Lula’s newly US-aligned coverage in direction of that nation advance imperialist pursuits since anti-Lula retailers criticized him for not signing final week’s joint declaration.
It doesn’t matter that these two angles of criticism are utterly separate, with the PT base being multipolar and in opposition to Lula internet hosting a whole lot of the US regime change brokers, whereas his conventional critics’ is unipolar and in opposition to him not signing that doc.
The PCO is all in favour of connecting them to strain the PT’s rank-and-file into self-censoring out of concern that they’ll be viciously smeared as “imperialists” in an unhinged witch hunt ought to they dare to talk out.
Several days prior, nevertheless, that cult’s chief claimed within the beforehand cited disinformation piece that the left might certainly criticize Lula and that doing so might assist preserve him in test.
In hindsight, he wasn’t honest, as evidenced by his official newspaper publishing their newest disinformation geared toward manipulating the PT’s base into considering that constructively critiquing his newly US-aligned coverage in direction of Nicaragua advances imperialist pursuits.
CONCLUDING THOUGHTS
Closely following the PCO’s protection of bilateral relations with that nation is an train in cognitive dissonance and doublethink, contemplating the polar reverse spin it positioned on internet hosting a whole lot of the US regime change brokers earlier than and after Lula determined to take action.
The first two articles criticizing this coverage had been printed with the expectation that he’d reject it, which means that their angle both wasn’t ordered by the PT’s elite members and even they didn’t learn about it upfront.
Whatever the reality could also be, which might embrace the PCO opportunistically main this disinformation marketing campaign overlaying up for Lula’s US-aligned international coverage basically and in Nicaragua specifically for self-interested political causes, this cult did a one-eighty after he embraced this coverage.
It then started producing bonafide disinformation merchandise that intentionally omit any point out of its prior criticism of this coverage or Lula’s promulgation thereof to mislead their viewers.
Observers can be taught from this case examine that the newest Hybrid War on Brazil assuredly exists, as was argued within the introduction to the current evaluation, however not like the prior one waged towards Lula and his occasion, the latest marketing campaign is waged by their putative supporters.
The PCO is the proper instance of those disinformation operations in apply because of its self-appointed function as his gatekeeper/inquisitor, which this cult’s chief delusionally envisages will facilitate its rise to energy.
That similar skilled disinformation agent’s newspaper shamelessly flipped from condemning the then-proposal for Brazil to host a whole lot of the US regime change brokers as a CIA-backed imperialist plot to fiercely defending this coverage after Lula promulgated it and condemning its critics as imperialist brokers.
This beautiful narrative reversal is probably the most damning proof of the disinformation marketing campaign that his cult is waging to cowl up for Lula’s US-aligned international coverage and mislead the PT’s base.