American Tyranny? Perfectly Normal

American Thinker ^ | March 26, 2023 | Peggy Ryan

[Kenny]

Immediately after the 2016 election the order went out, NEVER ‘let Trump’s Presidency be normalized. Huh? So someone controls what’s normal and what’s not?

Actually yes, the leftist insurgency can and does control what’s normal or at least what’s perceived as normal. In fact, normalization is arguably the left’s most powerful tool to control behavior,,herd the populace, even impose a tyrannical government.

Normalization starts by saturating news, social media, and entertainment with a targeted subject. This first step is a form of Systematic Desensitization where people repeatedly exposed to something abnormal, taboo, or even scary, gradually relax, accept.

Then we have the self-categorization theory, an effective tool where people “conform to the norms of certain social groups whenever they want to belong to that group”. Social media achieves the appearance of group consensus by using millions of bots, (software-controlled, automated accounts) to bolster user numbers. This army of virtual users not only reinforces like-minded opinions, it can flip a person’s opinion even when the decision “does not reflect their own actual preferences”.

Another plus of self-categorization (wanting to belong) is language control. Words considered offensive are labeled hate speech, condemned on social media, effectively banned.

Abortion is a clear example of normalization. It became a hot topic decades ago, talked about in news, on social media, in Hollywood (desensitization phase). Terms were revamped., (language control phase). Now it’s ’women’s health’ not abortion, pro-choice not pro-abortion, fetuses, clumps of cells not babies. Over time killing one’s own child was no longer untenable but a normal part of society even seen as a woman’s right.

[Kenny]

“So stay chill, America. Tyranny won't be so scary once you get used to it, once it's explained.  In fact, given time, the new world order, global tyranny, will be perfectly normal.”

"There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders." — Alan K. Simpson