Who Is In A Cult?

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I was going through the comments section on social media, and someone made the comment that he thought the Covid shots were affecting the brains of liberals.

I thought about that for a bit, but concluded that it was a little like putting the cart before the horse. They got people to take an experimental vaccine through propaganda techniques. Think about this for a moment, if Trump had won in 2020, do you think most Democrats would have been willing to take a vaccine that he had pushed through rapidly in defiance of the normal drug approval process of the F.D.A.?

Even before the vaccine came out, and while Trump was still in office, I remember debating the vaccine with two other conservatives. We were speculating on whether to take it or not. One friend was for it since he believed it would stop the lock downs and allow people to go about their business. The other friend was a pharmaceutical sales rep, he knew a lot of doctors, and one of the doctors he trusted was not for taking it. As for myself, I saw the statistics on how many people were dying from Covid and (as I recall), it was roughly 2% of the population, mainly the elderly. Despite my immune system being compromised by drugs used to treat ulcerative colitis, I said I’d take my chances. I’d survived all kinds of crazy diseases being brought in by illegal aliens that I arrested or encountered on the southern border and the northern border. (I eventually did take the shots due to family pressure, and NO, I’m not happy about that). You would think that if we were in a cult of Trump followers, all three of us would have been in the camp of “Dear leader, liberate us with thine vaccine”.

As it was, it was the left who lionized (worshiped) Dr. Fauci. When he said to double mask, they did. When he said to take the clot shot, they did. When they still got Covid despite this, they took the booster. When that didn’t work, they took another booster.

A year or so ago, I remember listening to an interview of Sarah Edmondson, a former member of the NXIVM cult. She runs a podcast called “A Little Bit Culty”. She said that in order to get people to join a cult, you tell them you are going to do some good deeds, save the world.

No one would join a cult if they were told they would be working long hours donating their money to cult leaders or giving their bodies to him. You could make a case that saying “Make America Great Again” was trying to get people to join the cult through doing something positive. However, I believe it is the left using things like “Civil Rights”, and, “Climate Change” who are getting their members to do some crazy things through manipulation.

Mass formation psychosis. After World War II, there was some speculation about how the Nazis were able to take over an entire country and, yet, seemed to get so little push back from within (there are some notable exceptions to that; Erich Maria Remarque, Claus Von Stauffenberg and the rest of the Valkyrie crew, Martin Niemoller, etc…). Why did the majority of Germans seem to go along with it? Some believe the answer is mass psychosis, “Mass formation psychosis occurs when a large segment of a population becomes hypnotized by a particular narrative, ideology, or belief system. In such a state, individuals disregard critical thinking and become deeply emotionally invested in a cause, even when evidence contradicts it. This can result in extreme polarization, social unrest, and even violence.

I believe corporations and governments studied the propaganda techniques that Goebbels used in order to get large swaths of the population to do their bidding. After all, what made the Nazis evil was not technique, but what ideology they advanced…right? right? (And, Eisenhower must have been a secret Nazi too).

One of Goebbels techniques was to throw out one story after another whether true or a flat out lie. The moment one story was debunked another one was already coming out. Goebbels supposedly said that even if an opponent were able to disprove all the stories coming out about him, still, the general public would believe there was something bad about him, otherwise, why were there so many stories about him?

Think about the list of lies you had to (or have to) believe in order to stay in the liberal camp:

Russian Collusion Delusion- You have to believe that Trump conspired with Putin to rig the 2016 election. Apparently, Putin is such an expert in campaigning that he can use a few Facebook ads to rig an entire election. If that were true, both Republicans and Democrats would be rushing to hire him as a political consultant.

Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation- This one must be true. After all, 51 former intelligence officials signed a letter saying the laptop bore, “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” I don’t know about you, but I trust our intel officials implicitly. They would never lie to me about anything including the JFK assassination.

Jussie Smollett- Where do you even begin with this one? The fact that he claimed his attackers yelled, “This is MAGA country!” in Chicago. The fact that the two Nigerian brothers who participated in the assault came forward and told the full story. Yet, Smollett still claims it’s true. Talk about Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

George Floyd- Derek Chauvin must have murdered Floyd albeit by accident. For heaven’s sake! Don’t watch “The Fall of Minneapolis”. It’s too long for our short attention span culture. Remember to obey Mass Formation Psychosis “In such a state, individuals disregard critical thinking and become deeply emotionally invested in a cause, even when evidence contradicts it.” A white person murdering a black person fits the narrative. Crime statistics showing the truth is the reverse do not.

January 6- Yes, the unarmed insurrection carried out by the most well armed population in the world. I guess they forgot their firearms at home when packing for the trip to overthrow the government. (Toothpaste-check, underwear-check, MAGA hat-check, selfie stick-check, AR-15-oopsie, how did I forget that?) Don’t question New York Times “journalist” Matthew Rosenberg. Don’t question Ray Epps. Don’t question the narrative. Obey. Besides, the National Guard didn’t need to be called up, they just needed more velvet ropes to contain the insurrectionists.

Michael Brown- “Hand’s up, don’t shoot!” The lie that keeps on going. Officer Wilson was investigated by the Ferguson Police Department and cleared. Obama’s Department of (in)Justice came after him and decided there wasn’t enough to charge him. The St. Louis Country prosecutor tried to prosecute him and they too decided there wasn’t enough to charge him. Yet, protestors still believe Brown had his hands up in the air when shot. Wilson’s career was destroyed, but that’s collateral damage for the narrative to continue.

Ahmaud Arbery- The mostly peaceful jogger. The prosecutor’s office originally thought the McMichaels did nothing wrong and refused to charge them. Gregory McMichael had his neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan release the cell phone video to a local radio station thinking it would exonerate them and put the matter to rest. Instead, sort of like the killing of Renee Nicole Good, the video proved to be a Rorschach test. People saw what they wanted to see in it. Talk about a travesty of justice, they even convicted Bryan on three felony counts of murder for merely taking video of it!!! How in the world is that justice? It’s just anti-white hate.

Above, as most of us know, joggers love running through houses under construction and dodging stacks of plywood and framing.

I could go on with the rest of the continuous lies. Here are some more:

Kilmar ABREGO-Garcia was just a “Maryland” dad. Elon Musk gave a Nazi salute. The Covington kids hoax (CNN had to pay out for that one). The NASCAR noose hoax. The Border Patrol’s horse patrol whipping illegal aliens hoax. Joe Biden is not senile hoax. The “very fine people” hoax. Etc… You can scan through the bottom of this article from Breitbart on all the mainstream lies meant to advance the narrative here. I know what liberals will say about that article, “It’s Breitbart, it must be lies.” Oh really? Which side was more accurate on Biden’s cognitive failure?

As for if Trump was truly involved with Epstein, I’ve gone back and forth with that. They were clearly friends at one point. If Trump was guilty, why didn’t Biden release the Epstein files and sink Trump’s candidacy once and for all? Now that we are getting releases, it seems the only ones implicated are the Clintons (who are defying Congressional subpoenas) and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. Let’s not publicize that. Like blacks randomly killing whites, it doesn’t fit the narrative.

(I might have to write next on who is behind the narrative).

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20 year veteran of the U.S. Border Patrol. Author of "What Bridge Do You Work At? Or, Kids Are Cute; Therefore, Open Borders" & "East into the Sunset: Memories of patrolling in the Rio Grande Valley at the turn of the century". Books are available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, as well as Thrift Books.

Master's Degree in Justice, Law and Society from American University.

Grew up partly in Europe.