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The United States and the West are in the Grip of Delusional Madness
American Thinker.com ^ | September 27, 2021 | Steve McCann

Posted on 09/27/2021 3:34:22 AM PDT by Kaslin

The politically motivated and unprecedented overreaction to a virus with a 99.5% survival rate was launched in March of 2020, thus unleashing what can best be described as a once-in-a-century fiasco. Nineteen months later it is impossible to look at the United States and the world and not conclude that this country and much of the West is in the grip, not of a virus, but of delusional madness and malevolence.

The governing elites have been so successful in propagandizing and fear-mongering the populace in many western nations, including the United States, that the virus has made far too many people blind to the madness as they wallow in anxiety, depression, and hopelessness -- deliberately and with forethought brought about by these malevolent cabals.

The noted British historian Kenneth Clark in his book and television series Civilisation said that empires fall not just to barbarians and other external enemies, but more so on account of exhaustion and loss of confidence within. He warned of the evolutionary process of destruction of self-confidence leading to exhaustion and culminating in the feeling of hopelessness which can overtake people even with a high degree of material prosperity. As any civilized nation, in order to survive, requires confidence in the society in which one lives as well as belief in its philosophy and in its laws and confidence in one’s own mental powers.

In the United States, the left-wing dominated ruling class, determined to transform the nation into a one-party oligarchy, has long focused on demoralizing and fomenting hopelessness among the American people so they would be amenable to this transformation. In a society already beset with self-doubt and disquiet about the future, they gaslighted the populace through the gross and near-criminal exaggeration of the threat of Covid-19, combined with manipulated data,

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; demoralizing; exaggeration; fearmongering; gaslighting; hopelessness; madness; malevolence; oligarchy; propaganda; rulingclass; transformation
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1 posted on 09/27/2021 3:34:22 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

The greatest desire of a liberal is salvation and they will pay any price to have that.


2 posted on 09/27/2021 3:37:00 AM PDT by Jonty30 (My superpower is setting people up for failure, without meaning to. )
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To: Kaslin

Bonfire of the Insanities.

Where, oh where is Tom Wolfe, when we need him?


3 posted on 09/27/2021 3:39:40 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Diana Moon Glampers for Secretary of Education! )
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To: Jonty30

Liberals have been warning of a “population bomb” for at least 50 years. Too many people. The Earth can’t handle it. We need to decrease the population. Of course, what that really all boiled down to was the Liberals wanted to control society and reshape it as they saw fit.

They’ve been persistent on this, but, overall, they haven’t affected population very much.

Now comes COVID. Liberals “panic”. People are dying! It’s only 99.5% survivable! We need to do something!! Of course, what that really all boiled down to was the Liberals wanted to control society and reshape it as they saw fit.

It’s not about too many people. It’s not about too many deaths. It’s always about the Revolution.


4 posted on 09/27/2021 3:44:00 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (China is like the Third Reich. We are Mussolini's Italy. A weaker, Jr partner, good at losing wars.)
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To: Kaslin

If you are forced to pretend along with a man who pretends to be a woman, it sets a reference point in your mind. If you have to believe that blacks have been disadvantaged in today’s American culture, it sets a reference point. These and other reference points lead the mind to have no internal map that’s worth a darn. So when a pandemic that probably isn’t a pandemic comes along, we are all lost.


5 posted on 09/27/2021 3:44:56 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (W-w-wait a minute. Did I do that?!)
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To: Gen.Blather

Excellent point.


6 posted on 09/27/2021 3:49:23 AM PDT by Kaslin (Joe Biden will never be my President, and neither will Kamala Harris)
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To: Jonty30; wita
Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat 
 
The ancient proverb reads, “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad,”
and it is written that the Lord will destroy the wicked, and He has done so
by bringing about circumstances to cause them to destroy themselves.    
 
 https://jod.mrm.org/3/254
 
A Discourse by President Brigham Young, Delivered in the Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake City, March 16, 1856.
Reported by G. D. Watt.

7 posted on 09/27/2021 3:55:41 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Gen.Blather

. If you have to believe that blacks have been disadvantaged in today’s American culture, it sets a reference point.


I have noticed nearly all the big college football games on TV suddenly have black referees this season. Where did all the white ones go?


8 posted on 09/27/2021 3:56:04 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Kaslin

It’s not madness.

It’s evil.


9 posted on 09/27/2021 3:56:52 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Gen.Blather
The left's infiltration and corruption of every major institution is virtually complete.

Most "experts" and "leaders" lie like rugs.

Reporters become agitators and propagandists.
Scientists become whores for Big Pharma and Big Government.
Education becomes leftist indoctrination.
Church becomes leftist agitation and propaganda.
Governments become the enemies of their citizens.
Large corporations become leftist agitators and propagandists.
Non-profits of all kinds become leftist agitators and propagandists.
A "woke Pantheon" of sacred leftist Deities is created, and all who oppose them are subject to losing their status and jobs.

"Lost confidence" is well earned by each institution.
10 posted on 09/27/2021 4:00:00 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: lodi90
I don't know, but the sport's referees suck...

College Football’s Referees Were Absolutely Crushed Yesterday

And that didn't have a damn thing to do with skin pigmentation.

11 posted on 09/27/2021 4:00:07 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Gen.Blather
So when a pandemic that probably isn’t a pandemic comes along, we are all lost.

Good point. And, any other ridiculous lie they want everyone to believe so they can enslave them...

12 posted on 09/27/2021 4:00:51 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: lodi90

Same thing in every large workplace ... run by affirmative action ... blacks and women ... not necessarily in that order ...


13 posted on 09/27/2021 4:01:17 AM PDT by bankwalker (groupthink kills ...)
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To: Kaslin
My, how prescient God is:

2 Thessalonians 2:5 Do you not remember that while I was still with you, I was telling you these things?
2 Thessalonians 2:6 And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he may be revealed.
2 Thessalonians 2:7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.
2 Thessalonians 2:8 And then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming;
2 Thessalonians 2:9 that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders,
2 Thessalonians 2:10 and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved.
2 Thessalonians 2:11 And for this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they might believe what is false,
2 Thessalonians 2:12 in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.

14 posted on 09/27/2021 4:05:17 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: ClearCase_guy
It’s not about too many people. It’s not about too many deaths. It’s always about the Revolution.

Yes, with leftists, that IS the truth.

15 posted on 09/27/2021 4:06:11 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Kaslin
This can be fixed, and a nation restored

That is the greatest delusional thinking of all.

16 posted on 09/27/2021 4:31:27 AM PDT by .30Carbine
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To: Kaslin

“...the virus has made far too many people blind to the madness as they wallow in anxiety, depression, and hopelessness..”

They better beware...anxiety, depression and hopelessness leads people to do desperate things as a last resort. The question is do enough Americans have the will to fight.


17 posted on 09/27/2021 5:05:49 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: bankwalker

Dems keep pushing. GOP keeps surrendering. This will not end well for our American Heritage.


18 posted on 09/27/2021 5:13:08 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: lodi90
Dems keep pushing. GOP keeps surrendering

Sounds like pro wrestling.

Maybe you have misunderstood what you are seeing.

19 posted on 09/27/2021 5:14:43 AM PDT by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: Jim Noble

Sounds spot on accurate to me. The GOP goes along with the Communists to get along and constantly sells out their voters.
There are more RINOS than Good Guys these days.


20 posted on 09/27/2021 5:22:48 AM PDT by JerseyDvl (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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