I really believe that the media and left are seriously programming people. I think they know they are doing it and they feel justified doing it.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/students-demand-police-sensitivity-training-after-maga-hat-arrests

I have noticed that the left employs techniques of programming people that causes serious brain damage.

If you remember after the 2016 election people on the left who expected Hillary Clinton to win were destroyed. I have never seen in an election such blatant exhibition of bias and hate by such a large group of people.

They cried and cried. They continue to talk about it as if it was a foregone conclusion that Hillary would win. Sure, the press told them there was a 98% or 88% chance of her winning even on the day of the election and they showed polls showing her 12 points ahead not 4 weeks before the election with Hillary gaining 390+ seats in the electoral college.

But they lied to them. I have shown how pollsters used demographics data from the 2012 election to decide how many republicans and democrats there were and on proclivities to vote.

There was plenty of evidence during the primary process that Donald Trump was moving some Democrats to the Republican column. John Podesta wrote to major MSM media that the way to game the polls was to use this data to game the polls so that Democrats would be happier and Republicans worried. The result would be he hoped that Republicans wouldn’t even show up at the polls and Democrats would scamper to an easy win.

The tricks of the 2012 demographic data meant that they expected 99% of blacks to vote and vote Democratic. They expected young people to vote more. They didn’t take into account the shifting of people’s real beliefs.

Pollsters don’t know how many Democrats or Republicans will pick up the phones. So, they multiple the results they get by the number of expected Republicans and Democrats in the country. Thus, a major statistical problem is that if you don’t know this split you can’t accurately predict the actual percentage who will vote for who.

4 to 6 weeks before the vote they had Hillary winning states like Wisconsin handily with 20 point margins and winning Red states with 5 and 10 point margins. In reality Trump won these states sometimes by 20 points more than they had estimated.

About 2 weeks before the election the pollsters adjusted their polls to reflect more accurate estimates. ABC reported that they adjusted their polls down 8% because they concluded there were more republicans than they earlier thought, that young people and blacks would not vote in such numbers at the polls and the combination of all these adjustments lowered Hillary by 8 points. In other words for the election up until 2 weeks before the election they had given Hillary an edge of 8 points she didn’t have.

They lied. This was in Wikileaks if you bothered to read any of it. Wikileaks also shows collusion between the MSM and the Democratic Party that was quite a bit more than many of us understood at the time. DNC and Hillary were writing stories for some of the press and editing it for them. We also learned that the DNC head was sending questions to Hillary for debates and not to competitors including Bernie and DT.

Is that programming? Well, it is lying to the viewers.

Some have called it a “filter bubble.” The idea is that if you listen to MSM news you will not be able to believe anything but what you hear. After all, if you don’t know anything else how can you think otherwise? So, people who hear these sources are told that FOX is evil propaganda machine and therefore you can’t listen. They would practically chop your head off if you listened to FOX or other sources that they call “white supremacist,” like Breitbart or some conservatives.

They frighten you to think you will be harmed if you listen to Fox because you might go to the dark side by the stuff you hear.

This emotional argumentation is critical to programming and we see the girl in the above video I mention is programmed.

Donald Trump has not hurt any blacks or hispanics. Why does this woman go ballistic just seeing a Trump MAGA hat? It’s too easy to categorize her as some wacko. There are plenty of incidents of this type where leftists are seen going off the rails simply in the presence of someone who doesn’t think like them.

They are being programmed to think everyone who wears that hat or was at the Charlottesville demonstration is some kind of evil force wanting to kill all black people or something.

The left wants to get 99% black voter support. They use every technique they can to pin Republicans and especially Donald Trump with some kind of black hating moniker.

They twist his words and try to make everything he says as if it was some allegiance to white supremacy. They don’t report the good things he’s doing for black people.

Their intention is clear. To keep people on the farm and make them believe voting for a Republican is so evil it will be a death sentence to black people. One of the founders and head of BLM said that she discovered DT’s plan to kill all black people in America.

If you were told this and you had no other source of information wouldn’t you do what this woman did?

The reaction of the left is actually quite predictable given what their media tell them. They were told Hillary had the election in the hat. They feel robbed because the press told them she would win with 98% certainty. No wonder they think Russia stole it.

They are never told that Democrats lost 900 seats in 2016, not just the presidency, but in statehouses and governorships and senate and house races they lost massively. It was the worst rout and left the Democratic Party where they were 90 years ago.

They have recovered 350 seats in the midterm but they are still short 550 seats from where they were in 2016.

When you look at the bias on the MSM you see a very determined effort to keep the programming up.

The question is: When you see that the results of what you hear are wrong how is it you keep believing?

The problem with filter bubbles is that once you become ensconced in the false narratives it is hard to withdraw.

People have a tendency to form identity and group identity. We should not enhance feelings of group identity. Group identity pits you against others based on generalizations that are in many cases untrue and hurtful. This is how you get WWII and Hitler in my view.

The intersectionality that the left continues to pursue is a strategy of divide and conquer. They hope to make everyone feel like a victim and become the supporters of victims except that this ultimately will create internecine wars between the groups and destroy this country.

It is hard to be objective and to look at the facts sometimes. A well known phenomenon is called experimenter’s bias. It is also called confirmation bias. The idea is that if you believe a hypothesis you are likely to look for data to prove it to be true.

The FDA mandates double blind studies because they know that simply taking a drug can convince participants to lie about the effects or even have effects that they otherwise wouldn’t have. It is called the placebo effect. It is very tricky how the human mind works.

So, the media is playing a dangerous game

When media promote a common theme and lie to people it can make it hard to swallow that it isn’t the truth especially if you have an emotional reason to believe it and a group identity tied to it.

So, when the media constantly impugn for 2+ years that Trump worked for Russia and stole the election it is very hard for people who have heard this a million times and nothing else to now swallow that in fact the entire thing was a fantasy.

This is the risk of these bubbles. Many people simply in their gut believe Trump somehow stole the election when in fact the evidence points that Hillary was the one trying to steal the election. She was the one who worked closely with Russians to construct evidence against Donald Trump. She got the FBI and DOJ, NSA and CIA to swallow her fake dossier and to engage in an effort to trap Donald Trump.

So, liberals still believe that Trump stole the 2012 election from Hillary when in fact it is the opposite. She tried to steal the election from Trump using the very tactics she accused Trump of.

Liberals are playing a dangerous game of indoctrination in which they actively program and use coercive emotional techniques to keep their people highly energized to hate. They get them to hate DT. They get them to hate Republicans. They get them to be scared to read alternate news for fear they will be counter-programmed. They shame them into believing what they want. They use social media as a cudgel to crush any dissent.

Do you remember during the Kavanaugh hearings how Democrats would gather in groups and a leader would read statements and the followers were expected to repeat the statements like robots. That was scary.

“We are going to see Nancy Pelosi.

“We are going to see Nancy Pelosi.

“We will ask her about Kavanaugh.

“We will ask her about Kavanaugh.

Over and over we saw how the Democrats literally seems to program their followers as if they are robots.

The good news

The good news is that the vast majority of voters are not into the filter bubbles. The people in these filter bubbles were almost surely going to vote democratic so all they do is to program their already existing followers. Some have estimated that as many as 10% of people might change their mind based on this kind of programming.

Undoubtedly FOX has some of this too with Sean and his other cohorts in the evening spouting a lot of Republican points of view it undoubtedly pushes some percentage but it is not nearly as organized or systematic as we see in the left’s strategies with the chanting and the screaming hate and emotion laden invectives.

However, on the whole the vast vast majority of people don’t watch either of these programming sources. These programs get 4-5 million voters a night. Out of a population of 130 million voters it is negligible and even if some people occasionally view it there is still not as large as the effect I call personal information.

Personal information has to do with your personal evaluation of the situation. Personal information drives most peoples decision making. They listen to other people but they frequently assess their own situation and decide what is best for them.

Our democracy is founded on this and it generates the results we’ve seen over the centuries. Simply speaking democracy works by iterative improvement. The parties put up ideas. If the people like the results of the previous choice and it seems to be generating hope for the future they vote in the existing leadership. If they don’t like the results in terms of their personal future. They will change leaders.

This is the most important aspect of our democracy that allows for iterative improvement.

In other words, this is how Democracy works: during times that haven’t gone that well we put in someone with other ideas. If that works we keep them otherwise we try someone else.

The basis for the decisions is basically my future prosperity. That is good. People see themselves in control of their lives not dependent on the government. Therefore, if the government is providing an opportunity for them to do better they will vote to continue the policies. If not, they will vote the other way.

That means we objectively keep improving regardless of underlying ideology. If people only vote according to ideology and that ideology is not working then thinks will just keep getting worse.

Many nations find that after invoking Democracy things don’t go as well as they had hoped. Instead of sticking with Democracy they will see it as a flaw of democracy and allow a dictator to come in promising some improvements. Thus many democracies fail. This cycle of trying Democracy and failing is all too common in the third world.

A lot of the failure is due to corruption. It is very hard in a poor country to get leaders who are non-corrupt. The desire to retain power or to gain money when in the center of it is too great. Fixing this is hard and requires a cultural change in many cases. People used to dictatorship are used to corruption because that’s all that exists. The cycle is hard to break.

So, I argue our rational system with people not being overly emotional and programmed by one narrative or another and simply looking at things rationally is superior.

Our society has plenty of corruption too. It is depressing to find that people will sell influence. Remember how Michael Cohen (DT’s lawyer) sold access to the president he never got? He never got those people meetings but he was able to sell that influence anyway. Hillary and Bill used influence peddling to make billions. Politicians of all stripes and people in government find ways to strike deals to help their kids or to hide making millions from their influence.

Watching “Mr Smith goes to Washington” should be required watching in school.

We can bless and be thankful that our country operates mainly on rational basis, with smaller amounts of graft and we have a system that works.