Top Ten Most Used Forms of Propaganda

Tireless repetition of an idea. An idea especially a simple slogan repeated enough times, may begin to be taken as truth.

Four legs good, two legs better.

Appeals to authority cite prominent figures to support a idea or course of action.

Building support by instilling fear and anxiety.

Using loaded or emotive terms to attach value or moral goodness to believing the proposition.

Bandwagon and "inevitable victory" appeals to persuade the target to join what everyone else is doing.

Pretending to be or support the common people by acting less educated.

Like instead of calling Obama a nword conservatives called him a Kenyan or Socialist.

Overt patriotism or call for nationalism to distract from rational thought.

Wasn't this done a lot during World War II?

Looking at you, Americans.

Presenting data or issues that, while compelling have nothing to do with the argument at hand, and then claiming that it validates the argument.