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The Brainwashing And Brainwashed Media And Its End Results
USA Transnational Report ^ | June 8, 2016 | Wallace Bruschweiler & William Palumbo

Posted on 06/08/2016 7:21:33 PM PDT by Randall_S

Is the American population at large capable of independent thought anymore? With politics going the way they are today, it’s a question worth asking.

As the 2016 election season progresses, it becomes more and more apparent on a daily basis that a vast majority of Americans on both the left and the right require their news to be ruminated, masticated, hashed and rehashed prior to consumption. Instead of using their brains to consume and synthesize facts concerning their country’s politics and politicians, Americans – more often than not – have consigned themselves to a state of cerebral laziness.

For such people, what the news says is the truth, period. Should you be mentally engaged reading this right now, “sheep” may come to mind.

Let’s take, for example, the latest kerfuffle involving Donald Trump and a certain judge. If you were to gauge public opinion by what you see and hear on the news networks, you would conclude that Donald Trump has been outed as a racist after criticizing the judge, Gonzalo Curiel, who is presiding over the Trump University case.

Yet according to the judge’s own CV, Curiel is affiliated with the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA). In July 2015, this organization issued a press release boasting of its intentions to target ultimately Trump’s business interests.

The judge’s flagrant inability to rule impartially is even acknowledged by former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who wrote in defense of Trump: “These circumstances, while not necessarily conclusive, at least raise a legitimate question to be considered.”

If you ever find yourself wondering why your friends, family, colleagues or peers cannot digest a basic factual political truth despite being otherwise intelligent, consider this: intelligence has little chance in overpowering regular and systematic brainwashing.

On the right, conservative pundits in the media have conditioned millions of loyal listeners and viewers to hang on and eat their every word. Their daily appearances amount to a priestly sermon for far too many conservatives, and it is absorbed, sans critique, as Gospel. Should the fickle media gods decide to turn on an issue or individual, however threadbare their reasoning, they surely bring the majority of their jelly-headed listeners.

On the left, the mainstream media has conditioned millions to selectively disregard inconvenient episodes (i.e. Benghazi, State Dept. emails, etc.). This intellectually dishonest environment creates lopsided narratives: e.g., despite Hillary (and Bill) Clinton’s seemingly endless scandals, a few malcontents who attended Trump University overshadow Benghazi, the Arab Spring, the Clinton Foundation, Bill’s philandering, mysterious deaths, and decades of ongoing lies to the American public.

What happens when a country’s citizens lose their ability to think for themselves? The media and political class are applying the methods used successfully in the past by Communist regimes and Goebbels; they mold and shape minds to accept things uncritically and unconditionally. What is presented today as supposedly newsworthy are politically pre-selected events. This creates the inevitable end result of cerebral torpor and mass-media conditioning.

Come November 8, 2016, we unfortunately will see if the brainwashing was too widespread and too deep to be overcome. Amen.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: brainwashing; conditioning; media; msm; trump
Are you a sheep?
1 posted on 06/08/2016 7:21:33 PM PDT by Randall_S
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To: Randall_S

WE, the Trump Supporters, the Legal American Voters are ready to take on the Clinton Media twits and their RICO crime families...

Bring ‘er on...


2 posted on 06/08/2016 7:26:48 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
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To: Randall_S

I say bring it on ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UwwRYxKdiA


3 posted on 06/08/2016 7:38:30 PM PDT by soycd
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To: Randall_S

This country has become full of appeasers, too afraid to speak the truth about anything.


4 posted on 06/08/2016 7:52:58 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: soycd

Liberals use other people, peers, as mirrors to see who they are. If you attack their opinions, you are perceived as wanting to kill them, or at least their self image, which is pretty much the same. Logic does not work. They are broken.


5 posted on 06/08/2016 7:53:55 PM PDT by Yollopoliuhqui (Smarter - Faster)
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To: Randall_S

Supposedly the dumbest 10% of voters, the ones that vote one way and then another and can’t usually give a reason that follows any sort of logical explanation, are the ones that decide elections. Supposedly all campaign money is meant to sway the swing voters, at least after the primary process.

So the dumbest 10% of eligible voters who manage to vote decide elections, whether or not a pub or dem wins. It could be a good result, or a bad one, but in any case the idiots decide. Pretty amazing if it’s true.

Freegards


6 posted on 06/08/2016 8:01:22 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: Randall_S

bfl


7 posted on 06/08/2016 8:26:11 PM PDT by gibsosa
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To: Randall_S

Am I a sheep? LOL

Not for 20 years or more. Ray Bradbury stated it best: the MSM is all created to control the “proper perceptions” (market ideas), and create artificial emotions (so you produce “cognitive dissonance” when exposed to Truth/God). The idea is that being so brainwashed with lies and misinformation you can never be logical or rational (truly human).

To addict the masses to the “dog and pony shows/bread and circuses” to pure drivel and stupidity and mush (never the Truth), destroys the attention span and ability to use the brain as designed. TV/Media stunts the brain and destroys memory (ability to retrieve information).

It is to disstract—to keep them from living Life and being concerned with the TRUTH, necessity for FREEDOM-—to KNOW——and KNOW the Truth-—what the politicians and evil judges are up to-—how they are destroying our legal system and forcing Marxism/socialism into our free, just System-—to destroy and collapse it.

You can NEVER promote evil, vice and slavery in a Just Law (in only unique America because of the brilliant, heterosexual, mature, masculine white males of Virtue (extreme Wisdom)).

But our Constitution was thrown out in 1913 and Christianity banned by the 60s). We need to take it back-—just call the unconstitutional laws “Null and Void” as they truly are. AND we have to take back the minds of our children and transmit the Wisdom of the Ages to them OURSELVES with help of family/neighbors. (People were more virtuous and more literate 100 years ago with only 6 or less years of “schooling” and NEVER in an artificial institution prior to age 8-—and never put in pagan, sodomite institutions to destroy Logic/Reason and Virtue formation in children.

Without Virtue embedded in children, culture will collapse (Aristotle). Cultural Marxists took control of the schools and textbooks and publishing companies (and courts by 60s) to destroy moral formation in children-—and destroy Reason so Slavery is Freedom and Boys are Girls. (Marxists have to destroy the concept of mother and father for complete dehumanization and “happy slavery” of Fichte 1810 where children become so dumb they actually believe “snow is black” and boys are girls.


8 posted on 06/08/2016 10:02:11 PM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: savagesusie
" Ideological subversion is the process which is legitimate and open. You can see it with your own eyes.... It has nothing to do with espionage.

It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages. The first one being "demoralization". It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years required to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy exposed to the ideology of [their] enemy. In other words, Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least three generation of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism; American patriotism....

The result? The result you can see ... the people who graduated in the 60's, dropouts or half-baked intellectuals, are now occupying the positions of power in the government, civil service, business, mass media, and educational systems. You are stuck with them. You can't get through to them. They are contaminated. They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern [alluding to Pavlov]. You cannot change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information. Even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still can not change the basic perception and the logic of behavior. "

--Yuri Bezmenov (former KGB agent) Part of Interview from 1984.

"Yuri Bezmenov on demoralization"

The game plan.


9 posted on 06/08/2016 10:16:52 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2

I learned a lot from his videos years ago.....and from Solzhenitsyn who stated that our press (MSM) was worse than Pravda.

What surprised him most was how people in the USA “thought” they were getting the truth, and believed they had a “free” press when it was totally controlled, since JP Morgan bought up all the important APs and publishing companies in the early 1900s. (That was stated in 1978). They also realized the power of the radio to repeat lies over and over and it would become the truth-—to millions of people at the same time. It is why they took over schools by 1930 (to destroy Christianity (remove Reason and Logic/Classical Christian Education-—they type which created the minds of Tesla and Newton).

We haven’t had access to truth until the internet, but now the Marxists are trying to get total control over it....as Drudge was warned about by a Supreme Court Justice last year.....hmmmmmmmmmm.


10 posted on 06/08/2016 10:28:05 PM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: Robert DeLong
"This country has become full of appeasers, too afraid to speak the truth about anything.<"

Actually, it's full of people who thought they could just keep their head down and the fascist agenda would blow over just like so many other things the democrat media harps on and then drops blew over.

Unfortunately for them, the wheel has turned so far that the fascists are implementing their social agenda with an iron fist so keeping your head down and going along with your life is no longer possible.

Two quotes by Ben Franklin come to mind :

"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."

"Even peace may be purchased at too high a price."

11 posted on 06/09/2016 12:44:13 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Rashputin
Actually, it's full of people who thought they could just keep their head down and the fascist agenda would blow over

Would that not qualify as appeasers? In my book it does, because if you refuse to fight back then you are appeasing.

12 posted on 06/09/2016 12:57:08 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Randall_S

To fully understand the media and “Propaganda” I highly recommend this BBC Documentary.

The Century of the Self

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s

Yep, it’s 4 hours long.

But if you are only willing to contribute 4 minutes, I would recommend this little clip.

Howard Beale: Turn off your TVs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5Gf0VKXk5Q


13 posted on 06/09/2016 1:08:06 PM PDT by Zeneta
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To: Robert DeLong
People who sat out election, people who refused to go to more than the one rally during all eight years of Obama, people who re-elect known RINOs because the Republican elite butters their bread in return, and last but not least, people who say they don't have time for politics because it gets in the way of their making a buck.
14 posted on 06/09/2016 7:09:42 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Rashputin

Gotcha.


15 posted on 06/09/2016 7:21:17 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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