"The only way to fight this is to stop participating in the lie that they are confused or hypocritical. They know exactly what they are doing. " This is Project 2026.
Know your rights. They can't enter your home unless:
They have a judicial warrant
Must be signed by a judge or magistrate
Must specifically authorize entry into that residence
Must name or clearly describe the person sought
Things will not change overnight, but step by step we will right this wrong. Our numbers are growing.
Do not engage, supersede. They are deliberate, calculating and diabolical. The antithesis of cooperative and participatory. The rot grows from the top down, poisoning and petrifying with insidiously undermining intent. Divided we are conquered, united we are legion. Take away the fear factor and they’ve got nothing to control. Don’t get mad, get even, more involved, more vocal, more accepting of the broad spectrum that it took to arrive in our current circumstances. This is not a dichotomy. It’s a slow siege of surgical precision, designed to distract and confound, keep your eye on the prize. United we stand, against fasçist takeover.
Spot on. We've been losing power for 50 years, by expecting the system to self-correct. It won't. There are too many Constitutional loopholes through which the checks and balances of the three branches of government have been neutered. Not to mention their messing with the electoral process with their false claims of voter fraud, and the SCOTUS overturning of important parts of the Voting Rights Act.
All our friends who keep catching them (MAGA) in a logical contradiction think they are in a high school debate 30 or 40 years ago. Those days were cold in the grave by 2014. Education and logical debate as a bedrock of societal existence died in the US with the rise of the Tea Party and their visceral hatred of Obama.
On January 20, 2026, the "Remove the Regime" organizers are calling for a nationwide, peaceful day of action: at 2:00 p.m., people are asked to "walk out"' from wherever they are, and then from 3:00-5:00 p.m., they're asked to "walk in" to their local congressional offices to demand impeachment and removal. #politics #breakingnews #whitehouse
I have now shared this article with my husband and three of my dear friends. We read it aloud and discussed the contents. Having experienced gas-lighting by abusers in our personal lives, we recognized the dynamics that you describe. We agreed that this is the most mind-opening and concise description of the universal gas-lighting methods used by power abusers, from personal relationships to what is happening in this country in these times. Thank you!
Spot on, been seeing these arguments all over the place, stop arguing with it, call the reality what it is and move on, you're not going to change their minds, they will not "learn", they will not "think", they know nothing but that reality is what dear leader says it is.
Something I've discussed elsewhere, about 62% of Americans embrace Kohlberg Stage 4 morality and are predisposed to "law and order" frameworks that lead them into reflexively taking the side of law enforcement whenever a hierarchy dispute arises. Under that frame, "disrespect" for law enforcement can be used to justify murder. This is the origin of "should have complied" narratives, even when the person is within their rights not to comply, and to be treated under due process of law: Given access to a speedy fair trial, rather than summary execution.
I hear you, it's something I've always found personally grating, that predisposition, I think I may predisposed to whatever the opposite of that is. I don't believe it's a simple question of "having a problem with authority", (though admittedly, it is a little of that)), cause I generally don't have a problem with coplying within reason, it's just always seemed to me 9 times out of ten, it's not a reasonable request.
Stage 4 morality is always downward looking--establishing out groups of people with lesser rights. In stage 5, the social contract, rules apply equally to everyone and rights and freedoms are protected regardless of status. Authority is held accountable "no one is above the law," people have to be read their rights before being detained, etc. If someone is asked to comply, there's a non-arbitrary reason rooted in the public interest.
Did you see Noem on Tapper the other day? When confronted with video of cops being beaten on J6 and asked if those people should’ve been shot, she couldn’t muster a coherent response. Because the only two responses are either 1) Im a hypocrite or 2) our government is operating on the fascist principles you’ve been describing. Neither of which she would ever admit
The real tell for this is that even people in the highest positions of power (like POTUS and Noem) claim victimhood whenever they are questioned or held to account.
Thought provoking. I agree. From now on, I will stop calling out the hypocrisy and when I see others doing it, I'll have worked out a one or two sentence synopsis of this piece and respond with that.
"The only way to fight this is to stop participating in the lie that they are confused or hypocritical. They know exactly what they are doing. " This is Project 2026.
Know your rights. They can't enter your home unless:
They have a judicial warrant
Must be signed by a judge or magistrate
Must specifically authorize entry into that residence
Must name or clearly describe the person sought
Things will not change overnight, but step by step we will right this wrong. Our numbers are growing.
This is a critical essay, thanks for being a voice on this.
Do not engage, supersede. They are deliberate, calculating and diabolical. The antithesis of cooperative and participatory. The rot grows from the top down, poisoning and petrifying with insidiously undermining intent. Divided we are conquered, united we are legion. Take away the fear factor and they’ve got nothing to control. Don’t get mad, get even, more involved, more vocal, more accepting of the broad spectrum that it took to arrive in our current circumstances. This is not a dichotomy. It’s a slow siege of surgical precision, designed to distract and confound, keep your eye on the prize. United we stand, against fasçist takeover.
Spot on. We've been losing power for 50 years, by expecting the system to self-correct. It won't. There are too many Constitutional loopholes through which the checks and balances of the three branches of government have been neutered. Not to mention their messing with the electoral process with their false claims of voter fraud, and the SCOTUS overturning of important parts of the Voting Rights Act.
All our friends who keep catching them (MAGA) in a logical contradiction think they are in a high school debate 30 or 40 years ago. Those days were cold in the grave by 2014. Education and logical debate as a bedrock of societal existence died in the US with the rise of the Tea Party and their visceral hatred of Obama.
Brilliant perspective. Thank you.
Thanks for explaining that. You and I have talked about this before but this articulates it definitively for me. I see 4 lights now.
On January 20, 2026, the "Remove the Regime" organizers are calling for a nationwide, peaceful day of action: at 2:00 p.m., people are asked to "walk out"' from wherever they are, and then from 3:00-5:00 p.m., they're asked to "walk in" to their local congressional offices to demand impeachment and removal. #politics #breakingnews #whitehouse
#fyp https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTbyFryDnb3/?igsh=enJ6dmQ2eHlwOW9x
I have now shared this article with my husband and three of my dear friends. We read it aloud and discussed the contents. Having experienced gas-lighting by abusers in our personal lives, we recognized the dynamics that you describe. We agreed that this is the most mind-opening and concise description of the universal gas-lighting methods used by power abusers, from personal relationships to what is happening in this country in these times. Thank you!
I am so grateful that you found this helpful.
Spot on, been seeing these arguments all over the place, stop arguing with it, call the reality what it is and move on, you're not going to change their minds, they will not "learn", they will not "think", they know nothing but that reality is what dear leader says it is.
Something I've discussed elsewhere, about 62% of Americans embrace Kohlberg Stage 4 morality and are predisposed to "law and order" frameworks that lead them into reflexively taking the side of law enforcement whenever a hierarchy dispute arises. Under that frame, "disrespect" for law enforcement can be used to justify murder. This is the origin of "should have complied" narratives, even when the person is within their rights not to comply, and to be treated under due process of law: Given access to a speedy fair trial, rather than summary execution.
I hear you, it's something I've always found personally grating, that predisposition, I think I may predisposed to whatever the opposite of that is. I don't believe it's a simple question of "having a problem with authority", (though admittedly, it is a little of that)), cause I generally don't have a problem with coplying within reason, it's just always seemed to me 9 times out of ten, it's not a reasonable request.
Stage 4 morality is always downward looking--establishing out groups of people with lesser rights. In stage 5, the social contract, rules apply equally to everyone and rights and freedoms are protected regardless of status. Authority is held accountable "no one is above the law," people have to be read their rights before being detained, etc. If someone is asked to comply, there's a non-arbitrary reason rooted in the public interest.
Did you see Noem on Tapper the other day? When confronted with video of cops being beaten on J6 and asked if those people should’ve been shot, she couldn’t muster a coherent response. Because the only two responses are either 1) Im a hypocrite or 2) our government is operating on the fascist principles you’ve been describing. Neither of which she would ever admit
Yes, and typically Noem played the victim.
The real tell for this is that even people in the highest positions of power (like POTUS and Noem) claim victimhood whenever they are questioned or held to account.
Yeah, they're not hypocritical; they are too full of other shit to be that… 😏💩 : P
Thought provoking. I agree. From now on, I will stop calling out the hypocrisy and when I see others doing it, I'll have worked out a one or two sentence synopsis of this piece and respond with that.