I'm sorry your media has done this to you. I realize you have no mechanism for knowing how brainwashed you are, and as a trained hypnotist, I am genuinely empathetic about it.
I mean no disrespect, because brainwashing is more powerful than brains. That's why it works.
One way out of your mental prison is to ask yourself which countries are okay with changing the basic nature of their societies via unchecked immigration.
If such countries exist, and unchecked immigration is working out great for them, you might be right that the Right Wingers and Trump are like Hitler.
If no such country exists, consider that you have been the victim of brainwashing -- the real kind -- and that this type of manipulation is the basic nature of American society, and has been for decades.
Next, ask yourself if anyone has ever used a complex model to predict anything about the future -- climate or otherwise. You will learn it isn't a thing, and never has been. Models do not predict the future. Nothing else does either.
Your real enemies are the brainwashers in charge, not the so-called Right Wing. There is a common enemy.
The political right can be deluded and wrong too, but it never looks like the result of organized brainwashing, just an attraction to conspiracy theories, too many of which have proven true.
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Based on my recent experiences, it is clear that people need a refresher lesson on answering yes-no questions. This thread will teach you all the ways.
I sometimes see the world as a secret battle among persuasion wizards, sort of like the movie Underworld, in which the vampires and werewolves are waging a war that humans don't notice.
By this filter, I'm seeing a frightening signal. I'll explain.
When Democrats succeeded in persuading half of the public that Republicans staged an insurrection and didn't bring guns, we entered a whole new realm. As a hypnotist, if I had been on the team that pulled that off, I would have one BIG question. . .
I'd want to know if there was any limit to what you could sell to the half of the public that votes for Democrats. I would want to test it. And to test it, I would introduce to the news cycle a whistleblower with the most implausible story I could imagine. Yep.
I like the idea of wokeness, which I define as treating all individuals with respect and learning how best to do it. But like most good ideas, too much of it turns everything sour. For example…
Management is a good thing, but too much management is micromanaging. Alone time is good, but too much makes you sad. Even taxes are good for protecting the homeland, but too much taxation destroys the country. Wokeness is like that.
On a scale from 1 to 10, a wokeness level of 7 might be exactly what the Republic needs. We’re at 9, and the wheels are starting to come off. It is now irrational to associate with the overwoke. Too much danger of imagined harm.
Here's an experiment you can do at home. Watch the documentary Leaving Neverland and you will be convinced Michael Jackson was guilty of child abuse, no doubt about it.
Then Google "Leaving Neverland debunked" and see what happens.
A well-made documentary will be 100% persuasive to the average viewer because only one side is presented. That's how we see all news and science In 2023 -- one side only.
But the debunk of the documentary will also be 100% persuasive because it too will focus on own its version of reality and omit anything inconvenient. The debunking of the Leaving Neverland documentary is thoroughly convincing, just like its opposite.