Manifest opinion shifts track propaganda, not underlying character structure.

Evidence

During the last several years all the propaganda machinery of the country has been devoted to promoting anticommunist feeling in the sense of an irrational scare' and there are probably not many people, except followers of the party line’, who have been able to resist the incessant ideological pressure. At the same time, during the past two or three years it may have become more `conventional’ to be overtly opposed to anti-Semitism, if the large number of magazine articles, books, and films with wide circulation can be regarded as symptomatic of a trend. The underlying character structure has little bearing on such fluctuations. If they could be ascertained, they would demonstrate the extreme importance of propaganda in political matters. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 446

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to Adorno’s distinction between manifest opinion and latent character structure in The Authoritarian Personality. — connects to: Ideological labels move people through affect, not cognitive content — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1995; Narrative form itself, not author intent, generates ideological content. — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1879; People label themselves ideologically via differing symbolic attachments, not a shared spectrum (+10 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Ideological labels move people through affect, not cognitive content — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1995; Narrative form itself, not author intent, generates ideological content. — Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious, 1879; People label themselves ideologically via differing symbolic attachments, not a shared spectrum (+10 more)