1984: Thread

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https://alt-market.us/gaslighting-how-leftist-psychopaths-demonize-and-demoralize-their-opposition/

Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us,

We have all heard this time honored cautionary mantra: “All governments lie”.

It’s not a theory, it is a fact that history has proven time after time.

I would only expand on the rule and say this: All governments, all
corporations, all corporate media, all think tanks, and all corporate
funded activist groups lie. There is a reason why public trust is at
all time lows for the majority of these organizations, and it’s not
because they are managed by good and honest people.

If you operate on the assumption that these groups are lying to you
most of the time then you will find yourself on the right side of
history.

That said, there are questions we need to ask ourselves if we ever
hope to change the world for the better and remove these liars from
power: Why do they lie? Why has this become a rule to live by? And,
how are they able to lie and get away with it so often?

Well, it’s not because power corrupts. That cliché might be true to a
point, but I think it’s a way for people to dismiss the bigger problem
because they are afraid to address the ugly truth. The reality is,
power does not necessarily corrupt; it’s that the corrupt seek out
power.

Governments and other mainstream institutions always lie because
psychopathic liars always infiltrate and overrun them. We have very
few checks in place to prevent this, and very little is understood
about psychopaths in the general public. To understand destructive
institutions is to understand the character traits and methods of the
psychopaths that run them.

Psychopaths are not very complicated people nor are they all that
intelligent, but they often succeed because they are relentless in
their pursuits. The common signs of psychopathy include a complete
lack of empathy, the obsessive desire for dominance, the use of
physical or psychological violence to gain control over others, a
narcissistic need to feel superior to everyone else and a habit of
playing the victim while victimizing others.

A common assumption about psychopaths is that they are incapable of
working in a group or organizing for mutual gain. This is simply
nonsense. In reality, numerous studies have shown that psychopaths are
adept at finding their own kind in a crowd and even working together
as a pack of predators. Some modern examples would be organized crime,
cartels, sex traffickers, online scamming groups and religious cults.

Almost all psychopaths are inherent cowards; they will rarely pick on
anyone their own size unless they have large numbers. The worst case
scenario is fully realized organized psychopathy; the advent of a
totalitarian culture in which psychopathic behavior is rewarded and
defended by those in authority or influence, while honesty, morality
and liberty are punished.

Over the course of generations, psychopaths have used different groups
and ideologies to gain control over the public, but today organized
psychopaths have chosen the cult of socialism, social justice, fake
environmentalism and leftist ideology as their vehicles. Essentially,
we are dealing with a modernized version of communism. And if we
examine the habits of current leftist and globalist “movements” we
will see a lot of similarities to historic communism, not to mention
numerous psychopathic behaviors.

The use of “Gaslighting” as a weapon is a classic mainstay of
psychopaths and by extension communist regimes, and it is visible
EVERYWHERE in politics and the media right now. It’s perhaps ironic
that I am publishing this article on April Fools Day, because
gaslighting is very much a kind of trick, a con game. And, in order to
control people, it helps to humiliate them and make them doubt their
own conceptions of reality.

The basic definition of gaslighting is the manipulation of a person by
psychological means into questioning their own sanity. In other words,
making a sane person believe they might be insane. This, however, is
not an adequate explanation of gaslighting. It’s not only about
questions of sanity, it is also about questions of principle and
morality.

The communist Soviet Union was notorious for gaslighting the public
with propaganda that suggested anyone who defied the will of the state
and who demanded freedom was “mentally ill”. The Cheka secret police
and the KGB had special hospitals set aside for political dissidents
called “Psikhushkas”. People of any prominence who were critical of
the status quo were immediately disappeared and sent to these
facilities after being accused of mental instability.

In Maoist China, especially during the Cultural Revolution, Mao
targeted impressionable and gullible Chinese youth, brainwashing them
into believing there was “institutional imperialism” hiding within
every facet of Chinese society. The stability of communism in China
was under question at the time, and Mao knew a rebellion was possible.
So, instead of immediately cracking down with the military, he
encouraged Chinese academics and youths to “rebel” and “bring down the
secret imperialists”. He redirected social discontent and aimed it at
a non-existent ghost so that a rebellion would never rise up against
him and the politburo.

Young and dumb Chinese activists thought they were rebelling when they
were actually serving the interests of government elites.

Gaslighting in China was pervasive. Any person that held the most
remote belief in freedom, free markets, business, private property or
anyone that had any objections to the crimes of the communists was
forced to undergo a trial, a kangaroo court called a “struggle
session”.

During a struggle session, a dissident was sometimes apprehended, or
sometimes shamed and compelled to stand before a large crowd of true
believers in the communist faith. The crowd would browbeat them with
accusations of criminality and immorality, trying to convince them of
the evil of their ways. If the dissident bowed and submitted to the
collective, begging forgiveness, then they might be allowed to live,
but they had to BELIEVE that they had sinned. They had to fully adopt
the communist ideology and plead for absolution.

Many victims that underwent such struggle sessions continued to
believe they were criminals for the rest of their lives. They believed
they were terrible people, even though they had no idea why they were
punished in the first place.

Gaslighting is a powerful device for subjugation because it makes good
people who love freedom think they are evil people that need to be
restrained. It is also a way for a corrupt system to maintain control
of the general population because it normalizes psychopathic behavior
and suppresses moral conscience by convincing people that morality is
“relative” or a “matter of perspective”, and that some abusive and
destructive behavior is “necessary” in order to achieve a better
world. If you can discombobulate a population into questioning their
own morality, or if you can convince then to question their own
sanity, then you can prevent them from ever rebelling against you.

These are the tried and true methods of psychopaths. If you ever
wonder why abused spouses or family members stay with and even defend
their abusers, it is because psychopaths use gaslighting to disarm
their victims. If you are crazy or subconsciously treacherous, then
maybe you aren’t being abused at all. Maybe, you are being saved from
yourself, and maybe society is being protected from you?

And, if you lash out and defend yourself against the abuser, now you
are truly a horrible human being. You just attacked your “protector”.
You are now a danger to society. You are now a terrorist. The only way
to avoid being labeled a terrorist or a madman is to quietly accept
the abuse.

I see this control tactic all over the world, and it is becoming
rather prevalent here in the US. The capitol building protest is a
perfect example. Millions of law abiding Americans have been abused
and oppressed by the establishment through lockdowns and censorship,
while groups of leftists like BLM and Antifa are allowed to run
rampant across the country looting and burning as they go.
Conservative Americans reacted with a protest after the election,
seeing that such abuses were likely to be aided in the near future by
the federal government under Joe Biden. They raided the capitol
building, without armaments, to make a point. Then, they peacefully
left.

Afterwards, the media bombarded us for months with the narrative that
the capitol protest was actually an “insurrection” and an act of
domestic terrorism. So, BLM gets to loot and burn their way through
dozens of American cities and it’s called peaceful protesting.
Conservatives protest at a single building and bust through the doors,
and it’s considered an act of war. This is gaslighting.

Under pandemic mandates a vast portion of the US has been shut down
and hundreds of thousands of small businesses have been lost. The fear
mongering in the media over the coronavirus has been egregious and
ridiculous. Hundreds of thousands of people die every year in America
from communicable diseases. Now, suddenly, we are supposed to abandon
all of our constitutional rights because of covid?

Anyone who has disagreed with these measures has been called a
“conspiracy theorist” and a danger to others. The science is on our
side, and always has been. Every element of the pandemic has been
exaggerated and overblown. Every statistic supports our skepticism of
the government’s response, as I outlined in my recent article ‘The
Real Reasons Why Millions Of Americans Will Defy Covid Mandates And
Vaccines’.

But, when we cite these facts, we are told by the establishment that
we are “lunatics” and “idiots”.

Of course, now we know that the death rate of Covid-19 according to
scientific studies is a paltry 0.26% outside of nursing homes. We also
know that lockdowns were completely useless in controlling the spread
of the virus, as states with the harshest mandates ended up with the
highest infections rates. And, finally, we know that masks are also
useless in controlling the spread of the disease according to
scientific studies and common sense observation.

Rather than admitting that lockdowns are pointless, that the masks do
nothing and that it is silly to take an experimental mRNA vaccine for
a virus that is a non-threat to 99.7% of the population, establishment
hacks continue to double down on their propaganda when it comes to
covid. The media continues to attack anyone that points out the REAL
science as “conspiracy theorists”. This is gaslighting.

And finally, we can’t really have a discussion about gaslighting
without mentioning the social justice agenda.

The phrase “white supremacy” is being repeated by corporate
journalists and politicians until they are blue in the face. And more
specifically, conservatives are being called out as the “biggest
terrorist threat” to the US in decades because of our supposed white
supremacist tendencies. The latest “spike” in Asian hate crimes is the
new excuse for this propaganda campaign.

Set aside the fact that millions of conservatives are black and brown,
not white. Set aside the fact that the majority of the hate crimes
targeting Asians the past couple years were actually perpetrated by
black assailants (as I noted in last week’s article), and one of them
is even a known BLM activist. Also set aside the fact that around 50%
of all violent crime in the US is caused by black perpetrators
according to the FBI. Somehow, all of this anarchy is the fault of
white people in general and conservatives in particular.

The race baiting used by leftists the past several years is a prime
example of gaslighting – Telling people they are responsible for evils
they had nothing to do with and that are completely unrelated to them,
then demanding they declare submission and loyalty to an ideology that
seeks to enslave them as a means to wash away sins they were never
guilty of.

If totalitarian control of the population is to be established in the
US and the west, we have to be tricked into thinking our values of
freedom, truth and meritocracy are somehow inherently evil. We have to
be tricked into thinking we are insane for wanting liberty. To be
clear, there only three ways that the brainwashing and gaslighting of
free people will stop:

    1) We submit and embrace the false narrative as if it is true and
give in to psychological slavery.

    2) We separate completely from leftist totalitarians and organized
psychopaths and go our own way.

    3) We remove the psychopaths from the picture and rebuild without
their influence.

Until one of these three things happens, like all psychopaths,
leftists and globalists will continue trying to wear us down. This is
what they do. They have seen it work in the past and they are single
minded in their objectives.