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If you take a look at the first 2 pages in this forum, you will see concerns about:
Illegals
Housing prices
High gas prices
'Pandemic'
War against parents
Ukraine/Russia war
Rising violence
'Climate Change'
Jan 6
Nuclear war
'Fear' is a great way to get people to follow what you want. Fear of not being able to survive, fear of illness, fear of dying. The latter is used a lot, especially by the government. Get people to fear for their life, you can do pretty much anything you want.
But has it ever occurred to you that all of these are not random events, random issues, random situations?
Most people judge by how they would act, and have a difficult time comprehending flat out evil. They think, 'I would never do that', so they believe that no one else would ever do that. "I wouldn't lie about that", so, in their minds, no one else would, either.
People always talk about 'the big picture'. Are people paying attention to the little things that create the big picture?
How many times have you been told about a situation, have been made fearful of the situation, and are told that if you just listen and do what we say, we'll save you.
Do you really think this country, the world, hasn't changed drastically in the last - 50 years. Change that is detrimental, not positive?
Swarm the country with illegals. It changes the demographics of the country, it brings in drugs - got rid of the opioid crisis? No worries, we now have fentanyl problems rising. We have increased murders and deaths. On the flip side, we have people who think that without illegals, we can't function as a society. Fear.
We have DAs who won't prosecute people. In some areas, you can shoplift up to around $900, and no one will stop you. You can beat someone down in the street, and you're out of jail the next day. The entire country is aware that violence is rising, and you see people, right on this forum, talking about how they will never go to X city or Y city, or are leaving a city because of it. Fear.
Make housing unaffordable by allowing overseas clients to buy up property, allowing hedge funds to buy up property, and overwhelming the country with more people than houses. People unsure how they will survive if they can't afford a place to live. Fear.
A 'pandemic' appears out of nowhere. Tell everyone they are going to die, they are going to kill their family, put them in a panic and put them under 'lock down'. Yes, use a term used in prisons, and apply that to the people. It's not 'quarantine' it's 'lock downs', like you're all inmates. People are scared to meet anyone, visit anyone, or go outside to do anything. They put cloth over their faces. Some wear gloves everywhere. They stay away from other people. They hug their grandparents through plastic. Fear.
Kill small businesses. Buy up farm land. Mess with farmers for decades, many of them just giving up because they can't compete on their small, family owned farms that are actually kinder to the animals. Again, the 'pandemic' - brings on 'lock downs' so that they can't do anything with their harvest aside from destroying it. Increase the price of fertilizer so that they can't afford it to get their crops going, bring on more food shortages in the near future. Fear.
Government throws money at the people, illegal and legal - every month. When that runs out, create a new bill to throw more money at people every month. Someone has to pay for it. It drains any possible wealth from the middle class. They see their hard work disappear right before their very eyes, and know that they will eventually become a lower class. The poor who are getting the monthly hand outs will vote for more of that as they get accustomed to the handouts and don't know how they'll make it without them. Fear.
Have people demand a UBI, (not realizing what that ultimately means for them). Talk about a move to digital currency, allowing the government control over what they're giving you. Oh - what's that? You don't like the president? You were caught on social media trashing the idiot? Well...maybe you don't need your government check this month. Did you ever think you'd see a free country freeze anyone's assets when they went against the government? It happened, very recently. Fear.
Turn something that had a handful of bad actors, out of the hundreds and hundreds that were there, into a full blown drama about 'insurrection'. Toss them in the slammer, leave them there to rot, tell everyone on social media how you 'almost died' during the situation, lie about the situation, lie about the president at the time, anything you have to do to bash the will of the people to stand up against fraud, lies, and government trying to gain more control. Fear.
Control what is seen on social media with labels calling everything 'false' that doesn't go along with the narrative. (Better hope they don't try to do what the UK is trying to do - instead of claiming things are 'false', they will now claim things are 'harmful' even if they are true, and in addition, you can't create your own platform to allow people to speak freely, because it will be considered 'harmful', and they will be fined, constantly, until the comply or go under.) People start self censoring, because they don't want to lose an income stream. Fear.
Install the most incompetent demented moron you can find as the 'president'. Install the second most incompetent moron you can find as the VP. Immediately put out E.O.s to hurt every single American in the country, especially anything involving energy use because 'climate change'. Fear.
Talk endlessly about the war in Ukraine with Russia, but never talk about how it got to that point. Once again, pick one side, and trash on anyone who doesn't agree with the propaganda. Talk about nuclear war. Talk about alliances that may or may not happen. Get people worked up. Fear.
Destroy the moral of the American people. Destroy their desire to fight against it.
Create a problem, and then convince the people that you, who created the problem, are the only one who can solve it. It's going to cost you - you, who did nothing to create the problem - and it's going to cost you, dearly. But you do it, because the alternative is fear. And no one wants to live in fear.
The fear is working. On this very forum alone, I see it working. I see people complaining about how they can't say things anymore. I see people using the language that is pure propaganda, because they have been conditioned to use the language. I've even fallen for it a time or two.
I see people whining, not fighting back. I also see people who want this to happen, because they have no idea what they are actually advocating.
'Oh, that's just a small thing, it's not important.'
What is really crazy is that the topics on your list are man made issues that have been hyped, highlighted, headlined and trumpeted from the rooftops by social media and it is all thanks to, in large part, the Democrats.
We all know that when something bad happens the Democrats are the first to pounce on it and bend it to fit their agenda. We have a rare mass shooting by some deranged killer and there is a call to ban guns and infringe on the Rights of the law abiding BUT they ignore the fact that every weekend in so many inner cities there is a slaughter taking place.
The Democrats NEVER Let a Good Crisis go to Waste.
They ignite the fear and then fan the flames for maximum outrage and sparking of emotions that drives their voters.
We once had a President that was trying to combat many of the issues on your list and look what they did to him. They turned him into the instrument of Fear that they played all the way to the election of 2020. They still pull him out to play a tune for their faithful and to keep the meandering in line.
Fear is certainly a tactic and the Democrats are experts at it.
Machiavelli understood the political usefulness of fear. The problem is that fear always creates hate, and hate tends to linger. Both sides are guilty of over-using fear as a controlling mechanism. Just look at Fox News; their opinion editors are constantly playing to people's fears.
Machiavelli understood the political usefulness of fear. The problem is that fear always creates hate, and hate tends to linger. Both sides are guilty of over-using fear as a controlling mechanism. Just look at Fox News; their opinion editors are constantly playing to people's fears.
Fox News told us about the disasters Biden-Harris was going to inflict on the country. It looks like Fox News was correct and our fears were valid.
Meanwhile, the liberal mainstream media was telling us how Trump would cause WW3 and an economic depression. It look like it was your liberal media that was the one playing to people’s fear.
If you take a look at the first 2 pages in this forum, you will see concerns about:
Illegals
Housing prices
High gas prices
'Pandemic'
War against parents
Ukraine/Russia war
Rising violence
'Climate Change'
Jan 6
Nuclear war
'Fear' is a great way to get people to follow what you want. Fear of not being able to survive, fear of illness, fear of dying. The latter is used a lot, especially by the government. Get people to fear for their life, you can do pretty much anything you want.
But has it ever occurred to you that all of these are not random events, random issues, random situations?
Most people judge by how they would act, and have a difficult time comprehending flat out evil. They think, 'I would never do that', so they believe that no one else would ever do that. "I wouldn't lie about that", so, in their minds, no one else would, either.
People always talk about 'the big picture'. Are people paying attention to the little things that create the big picture?
How many times have you been told about a situation, have been made fearful of the situation, and are told that if you just listen and do what we say, we'll save you.
You forgot the mention the deadly and damaging George Floyd riots and wokeness.
It was said that religion is the opiate of the masses.
In today's Western World, that is largely irrelevant.
Now fear is the great motivator.
Religion is out, now opiates are the opiates of the masses.
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