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Hardwired to obey: Why we keep believing the lie
Bizpacreview ^ | July 28, 2025 | | Maureen Steele

Posted on 07/29/2025 5:58:48 AM PDT by cuz1961

...The Russia collusion hoax wasn’t just a political scandal. It was a masterclass in obedience psychology. Americans didn’t believe it because it made sense. They believed it because someone in authority told them to. .

...Fast forward to COVID. A doctor appeared on your television and told you to stay inside. Wear a mask. Take the jab. If you hesitated, you were selfish. A threat. An enemy of the people. The same experiment was being run again, but this time, at scale. And just like Milgram’s results, most people obeyed. Not because they understood the science. Not because they evaluated the risks. But because someone in authority said so...


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KEYWORDS: intercession; propaganda
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Why has this been pulled twice ?

" No Source " ?

Why is this bizpacreview not a source ?

Are they a banned site ?

or was the link faulty ?

1 posted on 07/29/2025 5:58:48 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: cuz1961

Experts
Scientists
Academia

Aka

Professional
Liars imo


2 posted on 07/29/2025 5:59:36 AM PDT by cuz1961
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Bkmk


3 posted on 07/29/2025 6:07:22 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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Trust no one.

/Fox Mulder


4 posted on 07/29/2025 6:08:18 AM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRD)
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To: cuz1961

Experts- C19 vax

Scientists- climate change

Academia- men can give birth, systemic racism

Aka

Professional
Liars imo


5 posted on 07/29/2025 6:11:12 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: cuz1961

Typically the people who deny God are the most likely to believe in some other religion. Leftism is a religion.


6 posted on 07/29/2025 6:11:36 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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"A doctor appeared on your television and told you to stay inside."

Is it just me or is there some kind of subliminal message being sent that we're supposed to be staying inside (where we'll be safe) for no other reason but for being obedient to some outside influencers such as your local weather forecasters, social media, "big health" and politically motivated fearmongers?
7 posted on 07/29/2025 6:18:38 AM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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Isn't this what Stanley Milgram discovered at Yale?

After the arrest of Adolf Eichmann had brought the news of the Holocaust back to the front pages, he mused about whether the capacity to conduct that scope of evil could be limited to the Germans, or were even Americans capable of putting together and manning a similar network of death camps.

After his experiments, when he had been later asked if he thought he could find enough men across America to conduct a comparable act of mass murder, he is reported to have said that he thought he could find enough in New Haven (CT).

8 posted on 07/29/2025 6:18:42 AM PDT by Captain Walker ("Justice exalteth a nation: but sin maketh nations miserable." – Proverbs 14:34)
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*** The good news is that Milgram’s experiment didn’t stop at 65 percent. The other 35 percent refused. They questioned the orders. They disobeyed the man in the lab coat. They listened to their conscience. And they didn’t kill the stranger on the other side of the wall.

That 35 percent matters. It always has.

Because obedience might be natural—but so is courage. And every time we resist the narrative, every time we refuse to comply with lies, we grow that 35 percent. We wake people up. We shift the balance.***

Good piece, most likely because I agree with it.


9 posted on 07/29/2025 6:19:14 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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Why we keep believing the lie

Because the MSM won't say otherwise.

10 posted on 07/29/2025 6:32:13 AM PDT by fso301
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The longest running lie in American history is the 'democratic' in the the 'democratic party' title.

The second longest running lie is that of 'climate-change/global-warming'. The democratic party and the left-stream media and the far-left professors in academia told us it's harming the environment and killing us, so, we must believe the lie.
11 posted on 07/29/2025 6:58:11 AM PDT by adorno ( )
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Another long-running lie, which appears on TV too often, is that of while-coat wearing ‘doctors’ (actors, most likely), with well-placed stethoscopes around their necks, selling us all types of drugs. The drugs might be fine, but the white coats and stethoscopes are a bit much and not credible.


12 posted on 07/29/2025 7:06:28 AM PDT by adorno ( )
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Bkmk


13 posted on 07/29/2025 7:17:40 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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Liars and their anti-human deceivers are more clever, well-funded and prevalent than ever. There is very little downside for their deception.


14 posted on 07/29/2025 7:23:51 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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Why?

Because too many people believe the msm as truth.

The “doctor “ on the TV was required to have full support of the media to push a message. There was one message the “doctor” gave and the media made the message scary and that you will die if you will not obey the message.

That one message to “doctor” gave? That anyone and everyone can get the Chinavirus2019 through their eyes, just like the flu (rubbing one’s eyes)…and you will die.

The msn ran with it and told everyone the Chinavius2019 was airborne and you will die if you did not block this floating virus.

This lead to the stupid people wearing face shields when these stupid people should have been wearing a cone to keep them from rubbing their eyes, that doubles in keeping one from licking their wound where their balls used to be.

The ultimate was Sec of Defense Llyod Austin wearing a face shield and a fez on his head while inspecting troops. That made Austin one of the highest ranking stupid people in the US.

15 posted on 07/29/2025 7:30:35 AM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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1948 to 1954 we put “in God we Trust” on our money and “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance and many similar actions.

Why? Not because the nation was more Godly...but because we wanted to make a point:

Do not trust government, Do not trust the politician. Do not trust the newly emerging technology (TV).

This was agreed on by R and D, by aetheist and religous. We had just seen teen both Nazis and Commies and universally rejected both.


16 posted on 07/29/2025 7:41:57 AM PDT by spintreebob
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To: cuz1961
It was a masterclass in obedience psychology. Americans didn’t believe it because it made sense. They believed it because someone in authority told them to. .

Not to mention the big-name press lying about it over, and over again. Tagline still applies.

17 posted on 07/29/2025 7:46:31 AM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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The ultimate was Sec of Defense Llyod Austin wearing a face shield......

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Exactly correct. This alone proved this man should have been not allowed anywhere near our troops.


18 posted on 07/29/2025 7:47:25 AM PDT by mund1011 (We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality)
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To: cuz1961

That was one of the reasons I never believed it. I know these people lie when they say “Good morning.”


19 posted on 07/29/2025 8:25:41 AM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Democrat cult.)
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To: Salamander

The people I trust are the ones living inside my head, and I’m suspicious of half of them.


20 posted on 07/29/2025 9:45:49 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Sailing the Seas of Ignorance on a ship named "Free Republic".)
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