re: Trump has lost my support for 2018 & 2020 - Lack of Transparency in Govt

That's a solid wall of dogshite

The quality of empathy is vital to an effective target audience analysis. Empathy is putting oneself in the other person’s shoes-the ability to understand other human beings, to know how they feel and how and when to talk to them. To achieve success, PSYOP personnel must have this quality above all others. Empathy is so basic it may underlie everything said about how to develop an effective PSYOP message.

The message, in whatever form it is packaged, is not subject to a set of rigid rules, such as, “Printed products will not be written above a seventh grade reading level,” or “PSYOP must adhere to the rules of advertising.” The goal of PSYOP is to motivate a desired behavior change. The test is whether the message will get the desired response.

PSYOP personnel must gain the attention of the audience. They must get their meaning across and identify information necessary to understand the target audience’s perception. They know what response they want to cause in the target audience (PSYOP objective) and something about how that is done. The specifics of this process include the integration of the results of target audience analysis, the appropriate theme, and proper communication strategy. These specifics require from PSYOP personnel the greatest possible empathy with the audience they are trying to reach.

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He will time what he can for PR and elections. And he will reform government. Relax and watch the show.

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Dear citizens, your leader knows all, sees all, and is all you need to have faith in. Do not act, do not think, do not leave your homes. Dear Leader will protect you.

You seem very familiar with this particular topic so I'll just assume you're correct with a lack of transparency.

BUT

Is or should this really be Trump's top priority? And do you think he's intentionally hiding something?

If you answered no to either of these questions then there's no reason to throw a fit over this.

Key Communicators. Key communicators are also a kind of target audience. They are individuals to whom members of a target audience turn for information, opinion, or interpretation of information.

Key communicator influence factors include credibility, appeal, and power and control. Credibility is the willingness of the target audience to accept what the communicator says as truth. Appeal is the combination of attractiveness (pleasing to the senses) and prestige (prominence) based upon success, renown, or wealth. Power and control is influence (ability to persuade) and access (ease and degree of contact.)

The relative importance of these influence factors will vary, but all of them must be present. Note that a prestigious person is not always a key communicator. He may occupy a position of authority and responsibility but uses someone else or others to communicate for him.

The two-step model of communication attempts to influence the key communicator. By properly targeting the key communicator (step 1), the PSYOP planner enlists the key communicator’s support, which enhances communication with the ultimate target audience (step 2). The initial targets of the PSYOP planner may be key communicators or opinion formers who have the potential and capability to persuade the ultimate target audience.

Blocks 5 through 12 of TAAWSs are used for recoding data obtained during the target audience analysis. These blocks correspond to the following steps of the analysis

- Set the PSYOP objective for the target audience being analyzed (block 5).
- List conditions affecting the target audience (block 6).
- List media that will provide accessibility to the target audience (block 11 ).
- Analyze vulnerabilities of the target audience (block 8).
- Determine the themes and symbols (block 9).
- Determine the susceptibility of the target audience (block 10).
-Determine the target audience effectiveness (block 7).
- List the impact indicators (block 12).

PSYOP objectives are classified as cohesive or divisive. Cohesive objectives, whose successful achievement would strengthen or more closely unite the total society or a particular target group, encourage the individuals of the target audience to place the collective good above the individual good. Goodwill, encouragement, compliance, and coopertion are examples of cohesive objectives. Divisive objectives are designed to separate individuals from their group, a target group from other groups, or a target group from the society or to disorganize a group or society. Divisive objectives encourage the individuals in the target audience to place their self-interest above the interest of the group.

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Trump would be a fool not to use it as PR, he is facing a palace coup. Why do you hate realpolitik?

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Look, I love Trump and you do too. But we don't help him and we don't help ourselves by treating him like Dear Leader. We voted for him because he's an arse kicker. It's time for him to kick arse.

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It's time for him to kick arse.

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Cool. How do you know that time is now?

Be specific.