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How Do You Like the Thought of Being Deprogrammed?
American Thinker.com ^ | May 3, 2021 | Bruce Deitrick Price

Posted on 05/03/2021 4:04:12 AM PDT by Kaslin

Their normal human sympathies have atrophied. They live in the desert of their own inhuman politics. They are cold and apparently lack a spiritual life. Desperate to look down on other people, they take fatuity to a new level.

David Atkins, recently elected as a California member of the Democratic National Committee, mused on Twitter (Nov. 21, 2020): "How do you deprogram 75 million people who would literally die to stick it to the domestic enemies the teevee and youtube conspiracy vids told them to hate? No, seriously...how DO you deprogram 75 million people? Where do you start? Fox? Facebook? We have to start thinking in terms of post-WWII Germany or Japan. Or the failures of Reconstruction in the South."

Bret Stephens, certified by the New York Times as a journalist, summed up the American political landscape ten weeks after the election (Jan. 18, 2021):

The larger question in my mind is whether the G.O.P. is the village that must be destroyed in order to be saved, or, alternatively, is it like a group of previously reasonable people who got taken in by a cult and now must go through some kind of deprogramming so that they can lead normal lives again? My hope is that once Republicans realize that Trump was both a moral and political disaster for them, they might recover their senses.

Katie Couric, famous TV person, reacted viscerally to this "larger question" when chatting with Bill Maher on his Real Time show (Jan. 19, 2020). Katie confided her contempt for those who don't agree with her. She was particularly upset with GOP congressmen. "It's really bizarre, isn't it, when you think about how AWOL so many of these members of Congress have gotten?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: California
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1 posted on 05/03/2021 4:04:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

‘Deprogramming’ requires a continued erosion of what has been passed off as ‘mainstream’.


2 posted on 05/03/2021 4:11:53 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Kaslin

I won’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...


3 posted on 05/03/2021 4:17:16 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Kaslin

What happened in Russia and the satellites after the fall of the Soviet Union?

They already knew there was no truth in Pravda.

And the leaders didn’t want the citizens to see American grocers.

So how did they receive/accept the information they had been deprived for decades?

When did they realize they’d been had by their leaders and the academics and the media?


4 posted on 05/03/2021 4:17:27 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Yeah, *we* need deprogramming. What an ***hole.

5 posted on 05/03/2021 4:19:26 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Kaslin

looks as though the string-pullers of the UniParty (D) and UniParty (R) are getting anxious!

thats a GOOD sign


6 posted on 05/03/2021 4:21:04 AM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: Kaslin
When they say "cult" they are projecting. They also mistake support for Trump as following a personality and not following substantive policy. There is no doubt that Trump's combative personality is an attraction. Too many times (most of the time) we fail to fight. But it's his policy that is 100% pro-American that counts.
7 posted on 05/03/2021 4:43:31 AM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: a fool in paradise
When did they realize they’d been had by their leaders and the academics and the media?

Venezuala is a bit closer in space - and time.

Let's ask them...

8 posted on 05/03/2021 5:37:47 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: palmer
Too many times (most of the time) we fail to fight.

of COURSE!

It's more fun to WATCH a fight than be IN one!

9 posted on 05/03/2021 5:38:58 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie
It's more fun to WATCH a fight than be IN one!

Not in this day and time. Nowadays, whenever a fight starts, it is not long before the bullets start flying. And not the first has a name on it. They are all "To Whom it may concern".

As a rule, whomever the hood rats are shooting at are pretty safe, It is the onlookers and the innocent passers by that are in danger,

10 posted on 05/03/2021 5:50:50 AM PDT by sport
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To: palmer
Agree with you completely but I would go further: Trump is one of the few Presidents in our history to speak directly to us, the people. FDR pretended to, and Ronald Reagan (Blessings upon him) often spoke to us - but Donald Trump always spoke to us clearly and without any hidden meanings.

I really miss that honesty and clarity from our leadership.

11 posted on 05/03/2021 5:52:11 AM PDT by Chainmail (Remember - that half the people you meet are below average intelligence)
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To: Kaslin

Step One would be to determine who is living in a pseudo-reality and is in need of deprogramming. Start with James Lindsey’s podcast on The Nature of Pseudo-Reality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKuJt3qlkKE

Enjoy and share!


12 posted on 05/03/2021 6:11:21 AM PDT by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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To: a fool in paradise

“So how did they receive/accept the information they had been deprived for decades?”

All they had to do was look over the Wall to see that there was a disconnect between reality and what they were being told. That’s why they need world wide communism. There cannot be any contradicting examples. Once they have that, there will only be books, which they are already working to sanitize.


13 posted on 05/03/2021 6:45:18 AM PDT by beef (The Chinese have a little secret—diversity is _not_ a strength.)
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To: Kaslin

They really do want CWII.


14 posted on 05/03/2021 7:35:13 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. I will ever be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: Kaslin

“One of the most universal techniques of subverting our ability to correctly assess reality is through phobia indoctrination.”

Like AGW or covid?


15 posted on 05/03/2021 7:39:54 AM PDT by beef (The Chinese have a little secret—diversity is _not_ a strength.)
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To: Kaslin
Before he went over to The New York Times, Bret Stephens was a columnist for The Wall Street Journal. His columns there (in the early days of the Trump administration) were extremely vitriolic in their hatred of President Trump, as if he was having a competition with George Will over who could outdo the other. I never knew what the reason for Stephens' attitude was. He is Jewish and used to be stationed in Jerusalem. That Trump's policies were helpful to Israel apparently did not factor into his calculations.
16 posted on 05/03/2021 9:21:09 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Kaslin

If I’m to be de-programmed; I’m taking down a few programmers with me.


17 posted on 05/03/2021 9:26:10 AM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: Kaslin
is it like a group of previously reasonable people who got taken in by a cult and now must go through some kind of deprogramming so that they can lead normal lives again?

What is the prog definition of "normal?"

Sixteen genders?

"Critical" race theory of a boogeyman around every corner?

everything-under-the-sun-phobia?

And the prog just keep on rolling with their insanity is the the new normal.

Just trying to keep up with the mandatory anti-conservitive hate the white man rule of the week is driving them further into the darkness of their mental illness.

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18 posted on 05/03/2021 12:29:55 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Kaslin

Does this Demonrat really believe their own hype????? Seriously? This guy doesn’t understand this is just a smear campaign by his own party’s propaganda machine?
Or is this question another part of the propaganda?


19 posted on 05/03/2021 1:56:42 PM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: central_va

“I’m a good old rebel” needs to be updated and given a snappy tune we all can sing to relentlessly mock the left and their various sacred cows.

Any musicians out there willing to give it a try?


20 posted on 05/03/2021 2:25:21 PM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites)
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