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Gaslighting: How leftist totalitarians demonize
and demoralize their opposition
Psychopaths are not very complicated people. We all know the
common signs of psychopathy, including a complete lack of empathy, the
obsessive desire for dominance, the use of physical or psychological violence
to gain control over others, and a narcissistic need to appear superior to
everyone else even when they are inferior to most.
Despite the way Hollywood tends to glamorize them as brilliant
predators with diabolical minds, psychopaths in most cases lack any imagination
or creative capacity. They often score around average on IQ tests and rarely
exhibit genius-level intelligence. Their thirst for attention and validation
makes them prone to revealing their own crimes, and they usually end up thwarting
themselves in the long run. That said, some have developed methods for
infiltrating society.
Throughout history, people with psychopathic traits often climb to
the top of a society's power structure, from aristocracy to monarchy to
corporate and political oligarchy. As noted, it's not because they are
necessarily smarter than the average person, but they do learn from trial and
error what works and what doesn't when trying to control others.
A common assumption about psychopaths is that they are incapable
of working with others 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 working together as predators. This usually
develops into a kind of hierarchy in which higher functioning psychopaths will
lead groups of lower functioning psychopaths. A good example would be organized
crime, such as cartels, sex traffickers, online scamming groups and religious
cults.
Almost all psychopaths are inherent cowards; they will rarely pick
on anyone their own size. By extension, smarter psychopaths will seek to
exploit other people to do their dirty work for them. Some of these exploitable
people also display elements of narcissism or sociopathy and are willing
participants in the schemes of the psychopaths; the rest are useful idiots that
have been conned into thinking that they are doing good by serving the
psychopath's interests.
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.
Full-blown psychopaths are rare — around 1 percent of the
population. But there is no doubt that if a power structure exists within a
culture these people almost always find their way to the top of it and co-opt
it. They also find their way into organizations that pose as philanthropic or
promote activism but lack transparency and oversight. From governments to
non-profit groups to elitist foundations, you will find a high concentration of
psychopaths compared to the rest of the public.
They do this through nepotism; they help other psychopaths and
protect each other from discovery. They also use numerous tactics to undermine
and destroy any group they see as a threat to their position of power.
Today, we don't worry so much about monarchy or aristocracy.
Instead, organized psychopaths have chosen the cult of socialism, social
justice, fake environmentalism and leftist ideology as their vehicles for
control. Essentially, we are dealing with a modernized version of communism.
And if we examine current leftist and globalist "movements," we will
see a lot of similarities to historic communism along with psychopathic
behaviors.
For example, the use of
"gaslighting" as a weapon is a classic communist mainstay.
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 questioned 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 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 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 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.
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 the "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 they bowed and submitted to the collective, begging
forgiveness, then they might be allowed to live, but they had to believe 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 public subjugation because it
makes good people who love freedom think they are evil people that need to be
controlled.
It is also a way for a
corrupt system to maintain dominance 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 abusive and destructive behavior is
"necessary" in order to achieve a better world. If you can
discombobulate a population into questioning right from wrong, then you can
prevent them from ever rebelling against you.
These are 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, and if your position on morality is in doubt, then maybe you
aren't being abused at all. Maybe, you are being saved and
protected? And, if you lash out and defend yourself against the
abuser, now you are truly a horrible human being; you are now a danger to
society. You are now a terrorist.
I see this control tactic everywhere in western societies right
now. 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 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 by the federal government under Biden. They raided the
capitol building to make a point, then, they peacefully left.
Afterward, 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.
Five deaths attributed to the event were blamed on protesters,
yet, as it turns out three of them were due to natural medical conditions and
there is still no evidence that the other two were caused by conservatives at
the scene.
Under pandemic mandates, a vast portion of the U.S. was shut down
and hundreds of thousands of small businesses were lost. Anyone who has
disagreed with these measures has been called a "conspiracy theorist"
and a danger to others. Of course, now we know that the death rate of COVID-19
according to scientific studies is a paltry 0.26 percent
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 had
the highest infection 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, and the masks
do nothing, establishment hacks like Anthony Fauci have continued to double
down on their doom-mongering when it comes to COVID, and the media continues to
label anyone that points out the REAL science as conspiracy theorists.
And how about all the institutional racism and "Asian hate
crimes" being discussed in the news lately? The phrase "white
supremacy" is being repeated ad nauseum, and of course, this terrible evil
is attributed to conservatives in particular. Set aside the fact that millions
of conservatives are black and brown. Set aside the fact that the majority of
the hate crimes targeting Asians were actually perpetrated by black people (as I
noted in last week's article), and one of them is even a known BLM activist.
The race-baiting used by leftists the past few years is a prime example of
gaslighting — telling people they are responsible for evils they had nothing to
do with and are completely unrelated to them.
In Colorado, numerous blue checkmark morons on Twitter,
some of them mainstream journalists, came out to admonish the horrible white
terrorist and obvious "Trump supporter" that killed ten people in a
Boulder grocery store. That was until they found out that the man was actually
a Muslim from Syria who killed only white people.
Instead of apologizing for their idiocy, the media doubled down on
their gaslighting, claiming the shooter should be considered a victim because
he says he was bullied as a child for his religion. In other words, white
people and conservatives are still to blame for the deaths.
After the embarrassing revelation, conservatives are now passing
around the hashtag #He Is Muslim. Enraged by this, U.S. Representative Ilan Omar argued that no
one was passing around the hashtag #He Is Christian over the shootings of
massage parlors in Georgia. If Omar actually took time to think before opening
her mouth, maybe she would have realized that the mainstream media was already
tying the Georgia shooter's skin color and religion to his crimes. After the
Boulder shooting, the media has been glossing over the fact that Al Aliwi
Alissa is a Muslim, a hard leftist and a violent bully to his classmates and
family.
We don't need a hashtag for the Georgia shooter, sweetheart,
because no one is trying to cover up or ignore who that shooter is.
But then again, maybe Omar is well aware of the hypocrisy of her
statements, and she just doesn't care. Like most leftists and totalitarians,
the goal here is not to be "right," the goal is to win and to win by any
means necessary. That means gaslighting half the population of the U.S. into
thinking our values of freedom and meritocracy are somehow inherently evil. It
means we must be convinced to flagellate ourselves for the rest of our lives
for the "original sin" of whiteness (even though many conservatives
are not white).
Understand that there only three ways that the brainwashing and
gaslighting of conservatives 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.
Until one of these three things happens, like all psychopaths,
leftists and globalists will continue seeking to wear us down. This is what
they do. They have seen it work in the past.
To truth and knowledge,
Brandon Smith
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