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The Brainwashing of America

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Posted By: DW626, 4/11/2024 6:57:38 AM

America was once a nation of free-thinking individualists priding themselves on the constitutional idea that God ordained and endowed each person as an end unto himself with rights to think, act, believe, and behave according to personal thoughts, conscience, and individual interest. According to the Declaration of Independence, those “inalienable rights” include the pursuit of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Therefore, because government’s power is derived from the consent of the free, the job of those running the country is to “secure,” not undermine those rights and freedoms.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Krause 4/11/2024 7:31:48 AM (No. 1697108)
The radical democrat party is erasing the American can-do spirit.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: jeffkinnh 4/11/2024 7:44:48 AM (No. 1697113)
I would also suggest that these "beaten down" Americans are also ones that want to avoid conflict at all costs. They are terrified by a Trump that wants to fight against the tide that threatens to drown the original America. They would rather capitulate rather than fight. This is not surprising. In most confrontational situations, it can be a minority of people that are willing to fight for what is right. Others are too timid or too foolish to recognize the threats they face. Even in the American Revolution, it might be roughly estimated that 20% of colonists were Patriots, 20% were British Loyalists, and 60% were on the fence. Many on the fence were eventually convinced to accept independence from Britain was the path to follow. Many Loyalists ended up leaving the new country. The idea of the "majority" of people following the right path is an aberration, not necessarily the norm. A determined, dedicated small group is more the norm of getting things done. This is also how successful business gets done. Most people are NOT movers and shakers and risk takers. A small group of the population are business leaders. The rest of us want safety and security at all costs. The ups and downs of business terrifies us. A business failure would send us skittering into hiding. Business leaders shrug off losses and move to the next thing, eventually finding success. The current situation may not be brainwashing, per se, but instead the exploitation of a typical tendency of the majority of people to seek safety and avoid conflict. Perhaps Benjamin Franklin said it best, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.". Capitulation is NOT safe.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Clinger 4/11/2024 8:15:30 AM (No. 1697131)
The vast majority of humans will conform to what they believe to be the majority opinion and are prone to follow a leader who can offer them a sense of purpose. In essence, we're predominantly followers as a species. Follow me and together we can save the planet from evil Capitalists, all the cool kids are doing it. Genuine brain washing is a much deeper process, rather than leveraging existing thoughts preying on those easily manipulated normal tendencies, it's a total deconstruction of every thought and belief and a complete reconstruction of the person. Crawl into your attic and pull out your Psyc 100 books and review the Milgram and Solomon Asch experiments. Or save your knees and just Duck Duck Go it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: privateer 4/11/2024 8:46:22 AM (No. 1697139)
The smartest and most successful thing the Marxocrats ever bought was the Teachsters' Union. Under the guise of benefiting the beleaguered, overworked, underpaid, self-sacrificing educators of the Nation's Youth, they installed their hateful agenda...like a malignant tumor. For every drop of Truth, gushed forth an ocean of lies, omissions, mischaracterizations and double speak. For every grain of actual History of our Nation, they built a mountain of destructive wokism, cancel culture and self hatred. Dividing our Youth by social issues into tribes, they have insured that our future adult population will NEVER enjoy the unity, strength of character, and pride in our Nation, its history and our culture that had always been the normal condition. How convenient... for the long-planned conquest of the last best hope of humanity.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: TCloud 4/11/2024 8:49:45 AM (No. 1697144)
A sobering reminder that Freedom is Not Free!
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 4/11/2024 9:29:27 AM (No. 1697170)
FTA - "Our nation’s Founders knew that the nature of individualism is what stimulates the kind of spirit that brings about the sort of advances America has achieved since its founding. Yet, by trusting humans to think, act, and live according to their beliefs, the framers left the door wide open for enemies of liberty to infiltrate the minds and hearts of the easily influenced." As we see today, the left continues to work diligently to destroy individualism. By slowly but surely brainwashing the American public to accept collectivism. This is called operant conditioning. It is not new. Lenin used it. Stalin used it. Adolf Hitler used it. Mussolini used it. China's Xi is currently using it. Kimmie from Nork is using it. Obie and biden the cheater are currently using it. See a pattern here? How to fight it? We fight it as individuals, as willing overt participants. Not as a passive silent majority.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: ARKfamily 4/11/2024 10:58:49 AM (No. 1697240)
Starts right away with public schools. . .
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Reply 8 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 4/11/2024 11:28:59 AM (No. 1697269)
All too often, brainwashing is disguised as education. It goes well beyond just the United States and is probably as old as humanity itself. The problems start when those pushing the brainwashing do not live by the same standard as they are setting out. The other problem is not everyone is treated fairly. There are always winners and losers. That's when new standards get adopted and while different are ultimately no better than the old standards.
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