I think the Manchuria Candidate is an exaggerated version where they turn people into “drones.” Everything i’ve Read on the subject (admittedly not a lot) is that type of hypnotic suggestion cannot be ingrained to have a subject do anything they normally would not.
Programming troops to hate the enemy is different, and has even done sine the beginning of time.
I would love to read examples that suggest different. (Not written with any sarcastic intent. I find this stuff interesting.)
“hypnotic suggestion cannot be ingrained to have a subject do anything they normally would not.”
As a trained, certified hypnotherapist for over 25 years, that is not a true statement.
It is a statement made merely to lower a person’s resistance to being hypnotized.
There are techniques called “ultra depth hypnosis “ that take a subject to an amnesia state where they are highly susceptible to programming at the subconscious level. I’ve used them in the past but no longer do so as it is too dangerous.
There are also simple techniques used to hypnotize skeptics who say they can’t be hypnotized.