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Domination Through Chaos and Fear

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Posted By: FlyRight, 3/24/2024 6:37:23 AM

In the decade I served on a school board, I learned a great deal about group dynamics. The most important lesson, I suppose, is that there are people -- most often highly neurotic people -- who deliberately create chaos. They undermine every effort to rationally deal with issues that require solutions. They violate norms like crediting the work of committees that were designated to analyze what needs to be done and offer solutions for the board to act on, dispiriting those desirous of accomplishing what must be done. They go behind the backs of board members to undercut the systematic workings of the board,

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Reply 1 - Posted by: berthabutt 3/24/2024 6:49:51 AM (No. 1684472)
Instant Must Read! More hands to hold the wizards' curtain back, Please & Thank You!
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Reply 2 - Posted by: bpl40 3/24/2024 7:29:27 AM (No. 1684484)
Normal, reasonable people have a built in natural restraint that they will not unilaterally harm innocents or trample on their rights. This is absent in sociopaths. They exploit this difference by striking first. From Mohammed to Chengiz Khan to Hitler to today's Democrats, sociopaths have acted in this fashion. Petty little bureaucrats, local politicians are not any exception.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: spacer 3/24/2024 7:38:10 AM (No. 1684491)
Better explained by Clarice but I've seen this tactic first hand at several council meetings...from the city council membes them selves. Stopping debate with a sledge hammer. Elizabeth Nickson also showed how democrats have so demonized Americans against each other they are able to swoop in and steal an entire state like Colorado a solid conservative bloc until just recently. Too many times common sense decent folks are demonized beyond belief and simple fold. This crap must be stopped. MAGA
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Reply 4 - Posted by: marbles 3/24/2024 7:43:03 AM (No. 1684498)
It's always about power and control with the endgame being enslavement.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Bur Oak 3/24/2024 7:45:23 AM (No. 1684502)
"You can see the same dynamic domestically -- creating chaos to gain power -- without trying very hard." How true.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: franq 3/24/2024 7:47:50 AM (No. 1684505)
Her last sentence sums it up. We all know there are major problems. Now DO something.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: chumley 3/24/2024 8:40:26 AM (No. 1684533)
There is one in every group. The drama queens that always have a crisis going on. The ones that stir people up and pit them against each other, then stand back and watch. The bosses who take credit for others work, or change an idea just enough that they can claim it as their own. The blamers who find fault with everyone except themselves. The experts who know how to run everything until they're placed into a position where they have to. The one thing they have in common is that they seem to get promoted a lot.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: TruthFetish 3/24/2024 8:50:20 AM (No. 1684536)
Clarice deserves a Must Read every Sunday.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Venturer 3/24/2024 9:06:30 AM (No. 1684539)
I don't have a lot of dealings with the school board, but I find that when a board meeting has a large attendance it is largely because the school board is totally screwing something up.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Strike3 3/24/2024 9:22:43 AM (No. 1684554)
This article is even better than Clarice's usual brilliant contributions, truth backed up by the examples we observe every day. I had the same experience with school boards in Pennsylvania. When running for the board, one of the first things a candidate must do is sign a statement declaring support for the public school system. If people are honest they are already compromised. Every board in the state contains more than one person who will always vote for more spending, no matter what the money is for, thus driving budgets higher every year and financing things like pools that have nothing to do with education. The PSEA union keeps teachers employed no matter how bad they are and ensures constant raises to keep the funds coming in to the democrat party. Most people do not think the hassle is worth it and just let the blind supporters have their way year after year. The liberal parents and former teachers form support groups to keep their power and the end result is to keep the level of education way down where they like it.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: FormerDem 3/24/2024 10:32:42 AM (No. 1684583)
another truth telling article from Clarice. Apropos of not being manipulated into fearfulness, I want to say another thing about the dozens of Venezuelan refugees with whom I am friends or acquainted in South America where I live. Yes there are some who are a danger, but the far majority, are good and kind and decent. One practice of many of them was a blessing after you give them some money. It is not short and it is not in English and I am not sure what htey said. It was thoughtful, habitual, and a formal plea to God on my behalf. This I encountered often. There was one, only one, who was a bit untidy and shouty. We got o know him and ... he really was just hungry, and we have known him years now and it is OK. By and large do NOT think of the refugees as an aggressive army. That is not so. I believe those who say there are a few extremely dangerous terrorists mixed in, and I support the law out of respect for other voters, but .... I do resist the fearmongering. Most of them are absolutely lovely.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Zigrid 3/24/2024 11:39:07 AM (No. 1684628)
I recall the democrats pushing busing in Chicago...WE citizens didn't want our children bused for hours each day because the rev Jackson of the rainbow coalition wanted the black vote for the democrats...so we emptied the public schools for private schools and saved the catholic school system,...it cost a lot...but I'm happy to say...it worked beautifully.....
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Reply 13 - Posted by: mc squared 3/24/2024 11:46:25 AM (No. 1684630)
Very powerful and spot on. Violence disrupts the political and cultural ways of life, so people are willing to give away their freedoms to tyrants in government for a supposed return to peace. Too late then. Between the wars, Germany was trying to restore itself, and who was the 'disrupter' who promised a return to German 'normalcy'?
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Reply 14 - Posted by: czechlist 3/24/2024 11:59:06 AM (No. 1684637)
have winessed it through my 70+ years. High school, Navy, University and 35 years in the defense industry. Called them sh#% stirrers I stopped attending school board meetings when my oldest was second grade. The teachers always outnumbered the parents and decisions always in their favor.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: DEnforcer 3/24/2024 4:25:41 PM (No. 1684757)
We used to call this type of person a “seagull.” Just like a seagull they swoop in, poop all over everything, then leave their mess behind for others to clean up their mess. Sometimes their shitstorm is fatal to the project or goal. And they gloat at their power to disrupt things.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: danu 3/24/2024 8:39:16 PM (No. 1684855)
Everybody knows of the Good Shepherd; He knows his flock-- and His flock know Him. Do we know our betrayers? We know ravening wolves go clothed as sheep, jeopardising the very life of the shepherd and the entire flock. how about sheep clothed as sheep, who are worse than the wolves ...easily betraying the flock...? friends who are paedophiles lurking amongst the students. relatives who are false christians dividing the church and driving it to chaos, to loot the properties and funds of others. neighbours who are deceitful caregivers, abusing the vulnerable, to give political donations, to sign voting documents by forgery or force. Some are all or none of the above, in their plans to rule the country, or destroy it.
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