How To Escape The Age Of Mass Delusion
An interesting piece by Stella Morabito which claims (I believe correctly) that Americans are all being brainwashed by their rulers.
Your comments are welcome.
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The evidence is indisputable. The GOP still exists and most conservatives consider the GOP to represent conservatives and continue to vote for GOP candidates. Clueless.
The options are D or R. A diehard R will not vote D, it isn't an option.
Not voting isn't an option either.
I'm a recovering Republican. I am a card carrying Libertarian now. However, come November, if my choices are R or D, I will pull R. Not voting is the same as voting D.
In this case, it's not a matter or brainwashed - it's a matter of voting for the devil I know, and not for for the other devil I know.
"it's not a matter or brainwashed - it's a matter of voting for the devil I know"
No offense intended, but you don't recognise the brainwashing when it has control.
There is NO LESSER of two evils to choose between.
Vote for DemReps = Vote for statists, looters, and dictatorship
The question is, if your only choices are R or D, what do you do?
Relative to our principles, a "no vote" is a D vote.
If D=R, then yes, not voting is an option. I hold out hope that R is still better than D.
We have not witnessed a full GOP control, so it's hard to say what their actions would truly be. We've seen their compromises with the democrats.
Stop hoping and think rationally.
"Hope" is all the DemReps ever offer, and they never deliver on their promises to the people because that would mean not delivering on the private promises made to banksters et al. As long as you keep on voting and hoping, nothing will change for the better because politicians have no fear of the electorate.
GOP had total control after the Civil War. That kept the south voting Democrat for 100 years, just as you are voting GOP now, on hope alone.
We are not going to "think a more rational candidate" into the White House or Congress.
Come November, that is usually the only choices R-D. That's what I've been referring to.
I'm supporting Rand, the probability is, he will not be on the ballot in November.
That's what we're talking about.
Tell me where your mythical third party candidate comes from and I'll vote for them as long as they aren't a nut. Then I have to weigh whose ticket do they split, and could that lead to someone getting elected I don't want (Ross Perot - who I voted for - how'd that turn out)
The end of day (first Tuesday in November) we only get to choose who's on the ballet. A write in candidate won't win. So either it doesn't matter so there is no reason to vote anyway (that's a quitter), or you can at least choose the likely, hopefully, better candidate.
Because if you don't vote, you forfeit your bitchin' rights.
I'm supporting Rand. If he gets the nomination he will be on the ballot as an R. Would you not for him?...over the Crypt Keeper?
Libertarians have had candidates on the ballot in 1972, 1980, 1988-2012. There is nothing mythical about it. The mythical part comes from the DemReps who only have to make promises to keep you in their thrall, and because you don't punish them for not delivering they NEVER will. I conclude based upon history that there will not be a GOP candidate that deserves any vote. Rand Paul will be just as successful as Ron Paul was regarding running for POTUS.
Stop making excuses to agree with the DemRep propaganda and look at the record of betrayal. You have decided to vote for bigger more powerful government and no individual liberty. You choose to waste your vote in exactly the way that the DemReps tell you. You even believe the tale about not voting means you can't complain. Total propaganda in a free society.
I generally prefer libertarians but they frustrate me and greatly disappoint me by running their own candidates. They do far more harm than good. If they really want to do good they need to devote all their resources into actually making a difference by voting in and influencing the Republican party. If they did that I would actually be a dues paying member of their organization. It may not be a good solution but it is the only one I have ever seen that has a chance in H... Even Rush Limbaugh says the same thing. You may or may not like him but he is very sharp with his political understanding. When Libertarians call he is polite and sympathetic with them but he tries to get them to understand their cause is hopeless as a third party.
Enjoy your blue pill.
Also I agree, not voting R will likely elect a D. Why does it matter if voting for R will accomplish the exact same thing, maybe at a slower pace, than voting for D? The outcome is still the same. Slow death or fast death doesn't matter, still dead! IMHO until we quit voting for people on the R side that do no better than the D's nothing will ever change. We hold the cards but keep playing the wrong one's. Of course that is my 2 cents.
Slow death - because it's worth fighting for?? If it buys one more day to achieve change.
I dunno.
A younger generation of Republicans could change all this. Maybe we don't get a national Libertarian party, but a changed Republican one.
Where the GOP is getting older, so are the democrats - the hippies of the 60's, don't trust anyone over 30.
What about a person who believes in those topics on their own? This does not seem to be included in the writer's universe.
About halfway through, some good points are made about the freedom to be politically incorrect without legal repercussions. I agree that one should be able to express that one does not agree with transgenderism (to use one of her examples) without having gym membership revoked or being fired from your job. But I also am aware that someone who is transgender has had a lifetime of being rejected in those respects, and that is not right either. Freedom is freedom.
I do not agree that a person who expresses a particular belief or opinion should be immune to shunning or rejection as a personal and individual choice of the people around them. You opens your mouth; you takes your chances.
Jan
But it wouldn't surprise me at all if someone has already developed real mind control in the lab, and is awaiting a chance to use it on his opponents. Such a thing would need to be suppressed.
In the meantime let us refrain from the hyperbole and/or paranoia of calling anything else "mind control".
I would like to emphatically assert my right to reject anybody I wish to reject.
It is, to me, the same right as the right to say what I think, uncensored and unpunished.
I am willing to take the risk of being wrong and thus loose respect of good people. But, if I am honest, I must believe that good people will agree with me.
It takes courage to stand alone. All great leaders have that experience in their background, I believe.
Stay well.
Sincerely,
Maritimus
P.S. My parents, within a communist tyranny, always told me: "Use your own head!"
I think that this is closely linked to the concept of self-worth. If you have a solid sense of self, then it gives you a good foundation to say, "I just don't like you. Go away."
You had great parents.
Jan
Thank you. You are right. In fact, since early adulthood, when I first realized it, I have consistently maintained that the smartest decision I ever made, bar none, is when I chose my parents. ;-)
Stay well.
Sincerely,
Maritimus
She says maybe people have been brainwashed with a "fast-talking sales pitch" to accept those ideas, but maybe we really believe them of our reason and volition. I know I do.
My guess as to why those things are accepted is that they are consistent with reason and reality. In an industrial and post-industrial economy, reason delivers the goods. Reason gets us more cool smartphones, plane trips, ways to share our music and writing, etc; so we embrace it. In pre-industrial times, the means of production were arable land, and there was only so much of it. A feudal protection racket delivered the goods to people on the stealing side of it. Giving people who were different a hard time was more profitable in those days. Now we leave each other alone, and the weird Roarks of the world design cool new weird stuff that people want to buy.
We still have the protection-racket-like problems, e.g. income taxes going from almost zero to half our income, but I hope we'll keep moving toward liberty because it's right and it's helped along by the fact that it delivers the things people want.
We all possess our own level of susceptibility to manipulation.
If you don't believe that, learn it from working at a state prison for 21 years.
And you still want to give them just ... one ... more ...chance...
Change that to 'have been brainwashed and recall you only have to make fools of most of the people some of the time and a few for all of the time and the rest only on voting day - is there still such a date on calendar?
The process is entering its completion stage. The people are ready to accept anything - any form of safety promised from their elected saviors.
...LOL
Yes, this is what's happening.
When one turns off the tv, and starts reading books so much of this becomes so clear. It did for me.
Txs for posting.