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Dara Harvey's avatar

It sounds like a classic abusive relationship. It's all about control. Why is it getting worse? Because there's an election in under 5 months.

And it's not just to control people's votes. This election is short-term. In the long-term, manipulation through projection is to control people's mindset. Get us used to be talked to this way, we'll start accepting it as normal. We'll stop exercising our own ability to think because it's just easier to let the talking heads think for us. The end result: there will be no diversity of opinion left, so elections will become meaningless and unnecessary. And no one will grieve their demise. Just one less errand on the to-do list.

I grew up in the 1980s & 90s, and remember when music, sports and films were just entertainment. You could watch the Oscars and actually know the films, and not hear a leftist political rant. Mainstream culture had space for everyone to sit together and not get "offended." It's shocking how quickly American culture has become a giant echo chamber for the far left. Now, the more you tune in to mainstream entertainment, the more you'll hear the "correct" opinions voiced, and "incorrect" opinions demonized. Projection is just one facet of how that happens. And it's like a narcissistic partner isolating their target from other loved ones. Only one opinion is allowed; all others are dangerous. And projection makes it too easy for the target to "choose" which opinion to adopt.

I pity younger generations, because the echo chamber is all they've ever known. And they don't know what projection is. They haven't learned how to identify when it's happening. That makes them the easiest targets.

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I am referring to a more conscious and deliberately manipulative form of projection motivated by ideology and nurtured by others in the group who swim in the same ideological waters. Projection gets weaponized on a grand scalet.. The quoted book seems to stem from just such a process. Just wondering if others are familiar with it. I have not had a chance to read the book either.

Hope this makes sense. My brain is winding down for the night!.......

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