Why are they just so sauceless? Do they not have the ability to actually pick up the messages that the left actually succeeds on and counter those? It seems like the only thing the state has been successful with is instigating infighting through the whole “tankie” vs “anarkiddie” sectarian split. If I’m being charitable, gender has been pretty useful for them too with how many people feel comfortable with the anti-trans-athlete culture war BS. But if they knew what they were doing, there’d be so much more they could do.
I guess the reason they don’t pull out all the stops is that the western left is nonexistent but geez, at least taunt us about China not doing anything to save us or whatever.
Part of the point of anti com propaganda is the terrible quality. If you teach everyone from a young age absurd, unrealistically and insultingly stupid ideas about your enemies, they will no longer be living in reality. Their experience of what they have been told about the world will be so far removed from how anything actually happened that they won’t ever be able to connect back to reality. They won’t be able to actually spot patterns of behaviour in their own leadership and capitalist class, and will be completely unable of understanding what to do about it in the slim chance they do notice something is horrifically wrong. Look at all the “left lib” types who understand something is wrong, but are so indoctrinated that they can’t even imagine a world without capitalism, at best they can imagine a world where the boot of capital doesn’t press down as hard on them specifically.