Westerners’ Abusive Relationship with Their Governments

Two years ago, world-class researcher and analyst “Sundance” posted an alarming essay on his website, The Conservative Treehouse. Taking a look back at the previous years’ severe COVID tyranny, the rise of the Biden administration’s censorship regime, and the false media narratives pushing a NATO-Russia war in Ukraine, “Sundance” soberly concluded that “We the People” are in an abusive relationship with government. Within that essay, he embedded a picture of a woman holding a sign that reads: “DANGER: You are being conditioned to view your freedom as selfish.”

At the end of the essay, there is a chart from a mental health organization entitled, “15 Signs That You Might Be in an Abusive Relationship.” All fifteen signs are worth pondering:

Although his essay was meant to highlight how government authorities used COVID to advance totalitarianism throughout the West, “Sundance” concludes with a warning about the mass surveillance State being constructed to control the flow of information, isolate us from each other, and make us dependent upon government bureaucrats

Obama put the mass propaganda machine in place.

https://uscpublicdiplomacy.org/pdin_monitor_article/smith-mundt-belatedly-enters-21st-century#:~:text=The%20Smith%2DMundt%20Modernization%20Act%20will%20go%20into%20effect%20on,transmission%20to%20the%20American%20people.

You actually have folks championing this act.

“Hurrah, now we too have government propaganda!!!”

I love the way they describe it. You now get the “opportunity” to be propagandized by government. LOL

Insiders refer to this as “apple pie propaganda.”

Any power you give government, they will use and abuse (FISA, UCSs, etc), and to that end Covid was the first time these new powers were used wide scale on the US public (totally under reported).

What people do not understand regards censorship, is that it has been going on full swing for a longer time. You don’t realize what you’re missing (don’t know what you don’t know) and if you are able to truly get out from under it, you realize what’s going on. Even though you have for example RT in the US, you don’t really get RT, much is missing and you don’t really get that news which our government thinks goes against their agenda.

You have 4 servers, two on each coast that filter everything coming in and going out.

The problem with the combination of censorship and propaganda is that while the truth is still out there usually (a small percent may be talking about it), the government is able to dominate the narrative and since 85% of the decisions we make are emotional (we predominantly act on feelings not logic), you can basically steer public perception and thereby behaviors.

It’s not about what the 2% - 5% think or even what everyone has heard rumors of, it’s about what you can make the other 95% act on (example Covid vaccine “safe and effective”).

The problem you run into today is that because this censorship and propagandizing is done with a smile, no one comes and burns books or beats someone for saying something, the end effect is still that the public is controlled, but you don’t have the public rebelling against it.

In most cases people are not even aware of the silent hand in the background guiding them. Regards Covid they took things really far and the public began to grumble about social distancing, closing businesses and vaccine mandates, but social media (where most people get their “news” from today) and the MSM did their job and people were generally compliant. Opposing voices were marginalized, made out as conspiracy theorists, and the people did as told.

“false media narratives pushing a NATO-Russia war in Ukraine, “Sundance” soberly concluded that “We the People” are in an abusive relationship with government.”

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Yes, there are many false media narratives that, at times, are pushed down our throats by governments or fueled by collective hysteria.

However, the so-called “NATO–Russia war,” as you put it, is largely a non-issue. There is no NATO–Russia war. As long as NATO is perceived by the Kremlin as powerful and unified enough, Russia will simply not dare to attack it. And NATO, being a defensive alliance by design, will never initiate a war against Russia. NATO exists for one reason: to prevent exactly what Europe spent the 20th century suffering from the most, Russian expansionism through invasion and coercion.

What did happen is this: Russia attacked Ukraine without any formal declaration of war and has already seized and “annexed” large parts of four Ukrainian oblasts, absurdly labeling them as Russian territory. That is nothing less than 19th-century colonialism resurfacing in real time.

This reality is what pushed Trump to force Europe to confront the obvious: Russia is willing, and historically able, to move further into Europe if it believes resistance will be weak. That is why he demanded NATO members radically increase their defense spending, even up to 5 percent of GDP. To some, that sounds excessive. It isn’t. It reflects the scale of the threat.

Trump was not promoting a false narrative. He was responding to a real one: Russia’s demonstrated pattern of expansion across Ukraine, Crimea, Moldova, Georgia, and its constant threats against Poland, Finland, and the Baltic states. These are not hypothetical risks. They are an ongoing campaign of intimidation, destabilization, and territorial ambition.

Trump’s logic is simple: if you want peace, prepare for war.
And on that point, I completely agree.

Yes.
even our doctor, who we have a high regard for...pushed the covid “vaccine”...like he was told to by his hospital...

when I questioned him by pointing out that it used a new biological mechanism that had never been tested on large scale public before...and that there were questions regarding potential long-term side effects (damage to health), which obviously had never been tested since there’d been no experience with the injections, our doctor trusted the government and he continued to push the shots

to his credit, he’d been pretty much able to rely on FDA and his hospital’s recommendations in past on other things

anyway, a couple years passed and when we had our annual physical appointments, our doctor spent at least half the time railing that he’d been misled, lied to by government...(comment: IMAGINE your govt lying to you!? ha ha) and anyway he was most apologetic about, rued having pushed the shots

he still regrets it to this day

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