Good comments, good thread.
However, the people who read this thread either already know most of it, or will dismiss all of it as delusional. For instance, the person who posted 117 is likely a great person, but will never be reached by anything we say.
It’s called “Normalcy Bias”, and it’s one of Dear Leader’s most powerful weapons.
Sad but true.
It’s why it was so critical for Obama’s owners to threaten the media before any of the facts could get out. By forcing the “conservative” media to (first) ignore critical information and then ridicule the truth-tellers as “conspiracy nuts”, they were able to magnify the effect of normalcy bias by also making it cost a person’s reputation to even CONSIDER the evidence. Politics is by nature a popularity contest anyway, so the threat of being libeled if you pay attention to evidence make it too risky for a politician who needs to not be considered a nutcase in order to get (re)elected.
Once a society is so demoralized that it cannot (will not allow itself to) see the truth even when it stares them right in the face, the enemy knows it has won. No matter how much truth is brought into the open, the society is incapable of even considering it That’s why the Benghazi, Fast & Furious, Extortion 17, IRS-gate, etc hearings and reports don’t make any difference. America as a whole is demoralized beyond the point of being able to consider the evidence.
What’s left now are isolated people who don’t care if they are called nutcases. They will have food, water, shelter, and protection when all this comes to pass, and the people who ridiculed them as nuts will try to take what they have. Neighbor against neighbor. Family member against family member.
It’s an ugly picture that most people don’t want to see - even if seeing it makes us able to thwart it together. People have no clue how bad it may get.