Posted on 09/09/2022 8:16:32 PM PDT by TBP
I’m sure the idea of Democratic hypocrisy did not originate with him, but Tucker Carlson expressed it perfectly this summer when the “nonviolent” left was threatening to stab Mitch McConnell in the heart because he didn’t support gun control:
“Almost everything the left says these days is projection. They accuse you of exactly what they’re doing.”
The Democrats even have a goon squad to shut down dissent — whether it is the loud, bullying tactics of the celebrity left or the fists and sticks of the masked Brown Shirts called Antifa. They will hurl invective, insults and bricks at anyone who questions leftist orthodoxy on climate change, sanctuary cities, or disarming America. There is nothing comparable working on behalf of Trump or the conservative cause, thank God.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
I don’t say that “Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier,” for nothing. They are dangerous and a death cult.
these types: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4092147/posts
They are revolutionaries.
Yes! Yes! A thousand times yes!
They are cultists who now specialize in projection and displacement.
Projection involved misinterpreting the target’s motivations
While displacement involves mis-attribiting one’s own response. I stumbled onto these definitions just today.
I know a Left Coast liberal who insists that its Trump’s fault they have so many illegal aliens sleeping on the streets in CA. It defies logic and reason, but this individual chooses to believe such delusions.
Well, it is in some ways Trump’s fault for not getting re-elected by beating the cheating and then not being able to get Calif. straightened out.
There is only so much one person can do when 50% of the peeps are actively resisting following the real Social Science.
Research cult tactics and you will see so many similarities. Just yell “four lights” at them. Star Trek NG reference.
“Liberals know so much...that isn’t true” - President Ronald Reagan
...and still true today.
KILL MORE BABIES!!!! KILL MORE BABIES!!!! WE VOTE FOR MORE BABIES TO BE MURDERED!!! WE LOVE DEAD BABIES!!!
EVIL.......PURE EVIL!!!
The torture scene in this episode is nearly verbatim from Nineteen Eighty-Four's "2 + 2 = 5". In the novel, the slogan is a primary example of doublethink, the ability of the totalitarian ruling party to exert such control they can even make people admit obvious falsehoods. Sensory evidence - or in the case of the novel, analytic truth - is internalized as insanity, and external statements are internalized as true, even when the subject isn't actually insane. The captors are showing their strength not just by forcing the captive, but by forcing reality itself.
At the end of the novel, the main character is being tortured into admitting that 2 + 2 is in fact 5. Unlike Picard, he does break - he admits to seeing five fingers even though he really only sees four. This begins a downward slide into compliance with the state.
Orwell invented this kind of situation as an allegory for the propaganda of the Nazi party, although he also applied it to Communism in Russia.
In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable—what then?
Once that level of control is reached - when you can convince someone that your statements have primacy over their mental processes - you can make them do anything.
They way the Democrats and their RINO puppets have marched in goose-step fashion over the will of the people for decades indicates that it is far more than a cult.
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