Zero_Echo

It's almost as if bad policy has consequences? Shocking... It's silly to pretend that the Biden administrations policies aren't directly responsible for a large portion of increased gas prices. All of the sophistry in the world doesn't change objective reality. Totally a coincidence that gas prices began soaring within a month of Biden taking office, rising as much as 25 cents in the first 30 days. I'm sure the inflation — which was very much predicted given his economic plan — was somehow not his fault, too. At least polls show that 80% of Americans don't buy it.

If people can't even watch a video, then they truly are a lost cause and so ideologically obsessed to the point of fanaticism.

An excellent excerpt from Yuri:

"What we call: 'Ideological subversion' or 'Active Measures' — or 'Psychological Warfare.' What it basically means is to change the perception of reality — of every American — to such an extent that despite of the abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interests of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country. It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and it's divided into four basic stages. The first one being 'demoralization.' It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize the nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years which is required to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy. Exposed to the ideology of the enemy. In other words, Marxism, Leninism ideology, is being pumped into the soft heads of at least three generations of American students, without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism; American Patriotism. The result? The result you can see. Most of the people who graduated in the sixties, dropouts, or half-baked intellectuals, are now occupying the positions of power in the Government, Civil Service, Business, Mass Media, Educational System. You are stuck with them — you cannot get rid of them. They are contaminated; they are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern. You cannot change their mind. Even if you expose them to authentic information. Even if you can prove that white is white and black is black, you still cannot change the basic perception and logic of behavior. In other words, for these people, the process of demoralization is complete and irreversible. To rid society of these people you need another 15 or 20 years, to educate a new generation of patriotically minded and common sense people, who would be acting in favor, in the interests, of the United States society.

Interviewer: And yet these people have been programmed, and as you say, are in place, and who are favorable to an opening with the [Communist] concept, these are the very people who would be marked for extermination in this country?

Yuri: Most of them, yes. Simply because the psychological shock when they will see in the future, what the 'beautiful society' of social justice and equality means in practice, obviously they will revolt. They will be very unhappy, frustrated people — and a Marxist/Leninist regime does not tolerate these people. They will, obviously, join the leagues of dissenters; dissidents. Unlike in present United States, there will be no place for dissent in the future Marxist/Leninist America. Here you can get popular like Daniel Ellsberg, or filthy rich like Jane Fonda, for being dissident; for criticizing your Pentagon. In future, these people will be simply [makes popping hand gesture] squashed like cockroaches. Nobody is going to pay them nothing for their beautiful noble ideas of equality. This, they don't understand, and it will be the greatest shock for them, of course. The demoralization process in the United States is basically completed already. For the last 25 years — actually, it's over fulfilled, because demoralization reaches such areas where previously not even Comrade Andreyev and all of his experts would even dream of such a tremendous success. Most of it is done by Americans to Americans. Thanks to lack of moral standards. As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who is demoralized, is unable to assess true information; the facts tell nothing to him. Even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof; with documents; with pictures — even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union [or Communist country] and show him concentration camps, he will refuse to believe it, until he receives a kick in his fat bottom. When a military boot crushes his balls, then he will understand. But not before that, that's the tragedy of the situation of demoralization. So basically America is stuck with demoralization, and even if you start right now, here, this minute, you start educating a new generation of Americans, it will still take you 15 to 20 years to turn the tide of ideological perception pf reality back to normalcy and patriotism.

The next stage is destabilization...."

You can watch the interview if you're curious about the rest. It's worth it. People really, really, need to learn their history. When you juxtapose many of the warnings of the past with current day society, from countless people, the way that they align is startling. That said, if Yuri is right, no matter what's presented won't matter anyway. People are too far gone in the ideological rabbit-hole to come back. The only reason I broke free — yes, I used to be a liberal — is because I noticed the lies being pushed that didn't align with reality. I noticed the propaganda, the deception, the empty quixoticism, and the nonstop deluge of consumer culture trying to make people hate a country that gave them everything, while pretending they actually loved it whenever it was convenient for their goals. I stopped participating in consumerism that pushed divisive activism and social messaging. I haven't watched a TV show in 7 years. I sparingly watch movies and can easily spot any messaging included within it, I play pretty much old games now, with the exception of a few newer ones.

Anyone who tries to stop you from questioning absolutely everything like what we see in mainstream culture probably doesn't have your best interest in mind.

AT&T also owns CNN. Do you know just how many times they've been caught openly lying to push an agenda? They also have much broader reach and mainstream appeal. Furthermore, stop with the brainwashed "everything I don't like is "far-right"" nonsense. Typically, that's a key indicator of person's vacuous consumerism habits and them being inculcated into a cult of outrage where they attempt to silence anyone who doesn't agree with their media manufactured hate-fantasies. So many people have become intellectually lazy and wait to be told what they should think in order to fit in with their social circles while parroting information that's not even close to accurate. In fact, as previously mentioned, off the top of my head I can name dozens upon dozens of times that media has openly promoted misinformation, obfuscated the truth, misrepresented, removed context for outrage, or outright lied, in order to push a left political narrative.

If we're speaking exclusively of which of the two entities has had a much larger impact from the lies and deceit they've promulgated, who do you think would be the more egregious offender of the two?

It's truly staggering how many people can't even recognize that their own consumerism habits have shaped their views about an entire group of people; their hate doesn't even belong to themselves, it's been finely crafted and spoon-fed to them until surfeited. They base an overwhelming amount of their views off mainstream culture stereotypes of the people they've been indoctrinated by mendacious prevaricators to hate. Very few of their views are their own, but rather, an aggregate of consensus-driven make-believe so they feel like the fit in with whatever collective they're a part of. I don't believe it's a coincidence that as we see increased demands for intellectual conformity people become more and more depressed and manifest "diversity" through the physical self. It's all shallow and empty. People can't drone on with didactic speeches about "tolerance" and then hypocritically decide when, exactly, they want to to practice what they preach. They need to learn that the world does not, in fact, revolve around their themselves and that other people do have views that are just as valid. Although, admittedly, it does seem that hypocrisy has become concomitant to the virtue chasing progressives of modern society — their modus operandi, if you will.

Here's the things: Free Speech doesn't exist to protect speech you like. I don't understand how intellectually stunted a person has to be to not grasp such a basic concept. It was created for the sole purpose of protecting speech that people dislike. Why would any Government or Institution want to block speech that lavishes them with praise and aligns with what they agree with? It's beyond foolish. Advancement of society and changes leading to a better world have always — without a single exception — come from those who were willing to break away from "consensus" and the status quo in order to voice their beliefs. By advocating for silencing those they disagree with, people are not only advocating for authoritarianism, they're also advocating for something that will inevitably be used against them in the future. Chances are, they're also completely ignorant of their opposition to begin with. Studies have shown that in the US political system, people on the right understand the views of the left vastly more than the left understands the right. Why do people think that would be? I think the answer is pretty simple: only one view ever gets any sort of mainstream platform.

One way to look at things that many people don't consider is through a different perspective. It's no secret, for instance, that as people get older that their views slowly begin to shift more to the right. Do people believe that somehow, by some completely unknown means, people get dumber as they get older? Or, is it possible — as well as much more likely — that they've accumulated experience, have seen through the nonsense and continued predatory lies, and decided to stop supporting them? Do they think it's a coincidence that politicians on the left side of the spectrum specifically target the young and naive — those who have zero world experience but are desperate to prove they're "adults" now? Do they truly believe that the original "Social Justice" advocates, the flower power hippies and activists, who are now Boomers, just suddenly stopped caring about others?

All of these things add up into a very clear picture: the presuppositions of youth through consumerism and the sheer arrogance that accompanies them to feel like they have everything figured out without ever having participated in society in any true meaningful way.

It's become such a pernicious part of our culture that it's literally become a meme at this point. Whenever someone presents an argument counter to the new left's dogma, if the 'progressive' — although I don't particularly like labels — doesn't have a copy/paste response they've been given through their immediately responds with ad hominems, dehumanizing labels of "-ist" or "-phobe" and the stereotypes they've been made to believe. It almost never fails. The biggest obstacle in their way is their own ego. The unwillingness to even briefly consider that they may actually be wrong.

How many actually take the time to deeply look into the views of their opposition? At least people on the right literally have no choice, since it permeates every facet of mainstream culture. But how many others actually set down the video game, pause the movie or anime, spend a couple weeks truly looking into as much information as possible about what views the people they hate hold? It's purely anecdotal, but I would propose that it's very, very, few. Convenience and instant gratification have cost so many people their intellectual autonomy. They take the easy way out, allowing those they deem "better" than themselves to do the thinking for them. They have entertainment they want to escape into, after all — so it's much easier. Not to sound too cynical, but self-reflection has not become a trait found very often these days. If people did, they'd realize much of the very apparent things mentioned really do apply.

Personal accountability requires people to try and work on themselves, to strive to become better; it's much easier to simply point the finger everywhere else and pretend to be the victim.

Two links I'll leave with with before this becomes any more garrulous than it already is:

First, Albert Herong, Jr., entered "The Communist Goals" into the Congressional Record all the way back in 1963. If people can't recognize some things that are strikingly familiar — particularly later in the list — then they're completely blind. These were objectives stated in order to cause the complete destruction of the US from within using subversion tactics and infiltration through core institutions.

https://edberry.com/blog/polymontana/political-platforms/the...

The second is one that some people might be familiar with. Yuri Bezmenov, a former KGB informant who defected to the west taking the time to explain precisely what the Communist's goals were, warning of the disastrous consequences, and speaking about the subversion tactics used. It was recorded in 1984, fittingly enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQN4c3uN_tA

People who are brainwashed never actually know that they're brainwashed. It's the human ego that prevents them from pausing and realizing. The arrogance of believing they're above it. But if they did actually realize, it wouldn't be very effective, now would it? Although there's always a chance if people simply stop and reflect. The human mind is a wonderful thing.