Comments by "" (@DavidJ222) on "Former Trump Homeland Security secretary on Capitol riot security failures" video.
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âAnother way to control thoughts is through the use of loaded language, which, as Lifton pointed out, is purposely designed to invoke an emotional response. When I look at the list of thought-controlling techniquesâreducing complex thoughts into clichĂ©s and platitudinous buzz words; forbidding critical questions about the leader, doctrine, or policy; labeling alternative belief systems as illegitimate or evilâit is astounding how many Trump exploits.â
âCult members learn a new vocabulary that is designed to constrict their thinking into absolute, black-and-white, thought-stopping clichĂ©s that conform to group ideology. (âLock her upâ and âBuild the Wallâ are Trumpian examples. Even his put-downs and nicknamesâCrooked Hillary, Pocahontas for Elizabeth Warrenâfunction to block other thoughts. Terms like âdeep stateâ and âglobalistâ also act as triggers. They rouse emotion and direct attention.)â
â Steven Hassan, The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How Trump Uses Mind Control On His Followers
âA lie once told remains a lie, but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth."
-Joseph Goebbels infamously proclaimed.
Donald's followers were led down a dark rabbit hole, chasing the BIG LIE that was fed to them morning noon and night, lies from the mouth of a well established con-man. What happened to them is similar to what happened to members of the Donner party.
In the spring of 1846, a group of nearly 90 emigrants left Springfield, Illinois, and headed west, led by brothers Jacob and George Donner. The Donner party decided to leave the well established trail and take a new and supposedly shorter route to California. They were instructed to get off of the main trail, and take a so called shorter route by an unscrupulous huckster named Lansford Hastings.
They soon encountered rough terrain and numerous delays, and they eventually became trapped by heavy snowfall high in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. They were soon reduced to mur.der and cann.ibalism to survive through the winter, only half of the original group reached California the following year.
The moral of this story is simple, stay on the main roads that are well marked, and well lit. And never listen to con-men, who lead you down dark roads and rabbit holes.
As Virginia Reed, a survivor of the Donner party, said in a letter of advice to a relative traveling to California a year later:
"âŠRemember, never take no cut-offs, and hurry along as fast as you can."
This summary statement contains good life lessons for all of us.
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