There is an international conflict, a war, being fought on US soil at the political level. American progressives allied with Islamic extremists are waging war against America. One of their most dangerous weapons is political correctness by which they intend to silence all opposition. In a society where all people are valued, all people must all be heard. We must resolve problems through open discussions and constitutional democratic processes.
In the Wake of the Las Vegas Terrorist Attack on October 1, 2017 we are hearing more and more about why information about terrorist attacks is often kept secret: To prevent copycat attacks, to deny terrorist organizations recruiting opportunities, to prevent other terrorist cells from receiving instructions, to keep terrorists from learning how much law enforcement and intelligence agencies know about them, etc, etc.
However, there are a couple of significant problem caused by this type of secrecy. When the public is not fully informed, they will not know which policies to support and they will be easer for demagogues to fool. For example, hiding information about Islamist terrorism can prevent the public from understanding why a travel ban from terrorist supporting countries is a good idea. Hiding the fact that a mass shooting is a terrorist attack can prevent the public from understanding why stricter gun control laws will not prevent future attacks. When people do not have full information, they will lack the facts they need to refute lies used by opportunistic politicians who want to fool them and manipulate them.
We are told secrecy is necessary for reasons of national security. However that is not entirely correct. The secrecy exists for partisan political purposes that favor the Democratic party. The secrecy ensures unhindered immigration of people who will vote for the Democratic party, it lends support for stricter gun control laws, and it lends support for other partisan political purposes that favor the Democratic party and its political agenda. Secrecy makes it easier for Democrats to advance these policy objectives because the public lacks information that would show these policies are not in their interest.
Most government employees support the Democratic party because that party supports expanding the scope of the government and that gives government employees job security. When government employees decide what information should be kept secret, their political bias will induce them to withhold or release information in ways that are beneficial to the Democratic party even if those decisions harm the national interests of the United States. For example, sometimes terrorist organizations have goals which Democrats support. Antifa is one such organization, they want President Trump removed from office. Democrats have been saying Antifa's violence was justified. However, if Antifa is involved in a mass shooting like 1 October, the Democrats will no longer be able to portray Antifa's violence as justified and they will lose an ally in their efforts to have President Trump removed from office and they will be embarassed by their previous support for a terrorist organization. This would motivate government employees to keep secret any involvement by Antifa in the 1 October terrorist attack.
There are three independent forms of evidence that contradict what the authorities are saying about the 1 October attack: acoustic analysis of the gunfire, eyewitness accounts, and police radio communications.
The following video provides acoustic proof there were at least two shooters at the 1 October attack on the concert. It confirms what eye witnesses have said and contradicts the authorities' assertions there was only one shooter.
According to the video above, in the recordings of the gunfire from the 1 October shooting, higher pitched sounds are bullets hitting the pavement, and lower pitched sounds are the gun firing. By measuring the lag between the two sounds the distance from the shooter can be determined. Analysis of videos from the concert identify shooters at two different distances ie. it confirms what eye witness have said: there were two shooters. One of the shooters is calculated to be at the distance to the hotel which helps to confirm the validity of the calculations. Another is much closer about half the distance. Both are recorded at the same time on some recordings so it cannot be due to recordings at different locations on the ground.
The next video shows an interview with Rene, a woman staying at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas which is about 1.5 miles away from the Mandalay Bay Hotel. Rene describes a shooting at the Bellagio Hotel on 1 October at about 11:15 pm, about an hour after the shooting at the Mandalay Bay Hotel stopped. She says she and her husband were in the lounge when they heard shooting. Her husband was in the Marines and he recognzied the sound of automatic weapons fire. They dived under their table and security guards rushed in ordering everyone to "run". After she posted a video of the aftermath of the shooting at the Bellagio Hotel, other people who were there contacted her to affirm what she was saying. For example, one person said she heard on a taxi's radio that there were shots fired at the Bellagio Hotel. The authorities have said nothing about this second shooting that occurred about an hour after the shooting at the Mandalay Bay Hotel.
Below is her video from the Bellagio Hotel taken after the shooting there on 1 October.
This recording of police radio communications confirms the shooting at the Bellagio Hotel. At 1:19:32 you can hear, "Now we're getting shots fired at Caesars and the Bellagio".
18:51: ... "Confirmed there are at least 2 shooters with fully automtic weapons"
45:05: "Confirming, the Mandalay bay and Alibaba/Giles are the 2 shooting locations!"
The next video was made by a taxi driver at the Mandalay Bay Hotel. At the beginning of the video you can hear shooting. At about 45 seconds, there is more shooting and the driver says, "Now it sounds like its coming from farther away". It sounds to the driver of the car like there are two shooters, not one as the authorities maintain.
Cassie Harrison: "We were in Caesars Palace tonight and there was a shooting in there too. For some reason the news hasn't even mentioned this... We were in the food court and all of a sudden you see everyone running for their lives from the casino area right next to the food court. We took off and then I hear about 20 gun shots behind me.
Laura Loomer Interviews two Las Vegas shooting eyewitnesses who say there were multiple shooters.
Rocky Palermo (below) was shot during the 1 October attack. He is 100% certain there were shooters in the crowd at the concert.
This eyewitness says there was shooting near Planet Hollywood which is also near the Belagio Hotel. She thinks what she heard is probably the same shooting that witnesses at the Belagio heard.
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People who want to try to make this a racial or political situation, it may very well be, but I will tell you this, when I was in that basement with people of all colors of all political parties, races, nationalities, and countries - I was with three Austrialians, 2 Canadians, a guy from Kansas, and two other Americans from elsewhere, and I'm originally from Detroit, okay? - we weren't thinking about any of that. Okay? We were helping each other. We were concerned about one another. And in that moment we were just human beings. And we were just all fighting for the same thing. And to come back out of that situation and see everybody fighting, over what? It's ridiculous. To me it's just utterly ridiculous. Because honestly I know for a fact if any of you were in the same situation and you had to survive and some Democrat or Republican was standing next to you, ... you'd drop all that stuff. So please just try to be a little bit nicer to one another.
Compilation of eyewitness videos by InfoWars:
Air traffic control tapes on the night of the Las Vegas shooting:
Intellihub has many articles you won't see anywhere else. I can't vouch for unreferenced articles but I will say that the author, Shepard Ambellas, seems to present facts and leaves evaluating the implications to the reader.
When mainstream media outlets were offered undercover footage of Antifa terrorists planning violent protests, they declined to use it. Because of the mainstream media's fake news reporting on Antifa, portraying a violent hate group as beneficial to society, it is clear that they support Antifa and their goal of overthrowing the US government (the Trump administration).
Antifa is planning a new round of nationwide riots on November 4 as part of a plot to start a “civil war” that will lead to the overthrow of the Trump administration.
There are a lot of rumors going around about the Las Vegas attack and coming civil disturbances in the US.
Please keep in mind that political attacks and civil disturbances are rarely spontaneous. They are usually fomented by leaders of movements. The "leaders" don't care who wins because they get money and power from chaos.
And that is the worst thing about it, the people who are behind it many of whom are not known to the general pubic will not be held responsible. It is always the people of this political party or that race who get blamed, it's never the sociopaths who are manipulating the events from the shadows. They set us fighting against each other and the ordinary people suffer while the shadow figures and the journalists and politicians reap the benefits.
In this Periscope video, Mike Cernovich says that at DACA rallies they don't waive American flags, they waive Mexican flags and burn American flags. (I'm not sure these DACA rallies represents all dreamers.) Cernovich also says that DACA protects members of criminal gangs. He then goes on to explain that President Trump's policy is to discontinue Obama's unconstitutional policy and give congress a chance to amend immigration law at the time of a congressional election ensuring that congress will respond to the will of the electorate.
Politicians and journalists often demonize people on the other side of the political spectrum because of the actions of a few extremists. This causes people on the other side to believe they are hated by the first side. It also creates a false impression in the minds of the public that everyone on the other side is an extremist. The news media acts like a person going between two people lying about what one said about the other trying to start a fight between them. Politicians and journalists are unlikely to change their ways so the ordinary people on both sides have to try to see through the illusion spun by the hate mongers and remember what we have learned in the aftermath of hurricane Harvey.
This is somewhat off topic, but I saw your interview on the Alex Jones Show. Alex and you were talking about how the Texas disaster has brought people together and how that is influencing the media and politicians, making them want to get on the side of goodness. That is a great story. It shows that, as you say, most people have goodness within them - as the people of Texas showed by helping each other regardless of race, ethnicity etc.
Later Alex moved on to literal demonization of liberals. I am not a fan of the left but part of the problem in our country is that each side hears about the worst of the other side on videos and develops a false worldview that the other side are all like the extremists. It’s like someone who talks to two different people lying about what the other said about them in order to start a fight between them. When people hear other side hates them they naturally hate the other side.
Many “journalists” and politicians push the anger, fear and hate because it get viewers and votes. I know you and Alex are above that so I hope you will have a talk with Alex about ways to counter the mutual misunderstanding. You recognized that people have goodness within them. The question is to figure out how to appeal to their best nature not reinforce their anger and hate through demonization, literal or figurative.
Thanks
Also posted to Alex Jones' facebook page:
A woman from Detroit, Michigan who was in Las Vegas during the 1 October attack expressed similar sentiments in a YouTube video (below):
People who want to try to make this a racial or political situation, it may very well be, but I will tell you this, when I was in that basement with people of all colors of all political parties, races, nationalities, and countries - I was with three Austrialians, 2 Canadians, a guy from Kansas, and two other Americans from elsewhere, and I'm originally from Detroit, okay? - we weren't thinking about any of that. Okay? We were helping each other. We were concerned about one another. And in that moment we were just human beings. And we were just all fighting for the same thing. And to come back out of that situation and see everybody fighting, over what? It's ridiculous. To me it's just utterly ridiculous. Because honestly I know for a fact if any of you were in the same situation and you had to survive and some Democrat or Republican was standing next to you, ... you'd drop all that stuff. So please just try to be a little bit nicer to one another.
All that is needed for people to get along is for them to get to know each other as people instead of as stereotypes portrayed by the news media, politicians, and other "cultural leaders".
How One Man Convinced 200 Ku Klux Klan Members To Give Up Their Robes
August 20, 2017
If you spend five minutes with your worst enemy — it doesn't have to be about race, it could be about anything...you will find that you both have something in common. As you build upon those commonalities, you're forming a relationship and as you build about that relationship, you're forming a friendship. That's what would happen. I didn't convert anybody. They saw the light and converted themselves.
For an entire year, I embedded myself with the other side, standing in pit row at a NASCAR race, hanging out at Tea Party meetings and sitting in on Steve Bannon’s radio show. I found an America far different from the one depicted in the press and imagined by presidents (“cling to guns or religion”) and presidential candidates (“basket of deplorables”) alike.
I spent many Sundays in evangelical churches and hung out with 15,000 evangelical youth at the Urbana conference. I wasn’t sure what to expect among thousands of college-age evangelicals, but I certainly didn’t expect the intense discussion of racial equity and refugee issues — how to help them, not how to keep them out — but that is what I got.
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The vast majority of prejudice is due only to ignorance and people being lied to. Actual experience of the truth of what people are really like is enough to dissolve the illusions of difference.
In this video David Horowitz explains what cultural Marxism is.
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The Democratic party, in my view, has been taken over by the political left.
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And the Democratic party today is driven, and of course it's a big party, and these are generalizations that I've made, and I understand that there are very decent people in the democratic party. But the ideology of the democratic party today is called identity politics. And if you are a leftist you actually understand or you describe this as cultural Marxism. And what does that mean? Well Marx had this false idea that the world is divided into oppressors and oppressed. And he had the idea that capitalist democracies were also oppressors and oppressed.
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It's that model. It was wrong when he said it, a hundred million people have been killed in its name. It's still wrong. And what the left has done is to extend this model of the oppressor and the oporessed to race, class, gender, sexual orientation. Everywhere they look they see oppression.
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[Do you] see a big exodous from this country of black people? No. On the contrary. You see Haitians risking their lives to get here. Why? To be oppressed? No. ... Despite the fact ... there are bigots around, as [there are] always going to be bigots. But ... remember that Haiti [has been] a free country run by black people for over 200 years. But a Haitian in America has more rights, more privileges, and more opportunities, than any Haitian in Haiti.
More about cultural Marxism:
Karl Marx thought all of history could be explained by conflicts between people who were oppressed and their oppressors. Cultural Marxism is when that type of analysis is applied to contemporary culture and everybody is assigned to a group of either oppressed or oppressors. It is the same as identity politics. It is used to divide society into self-concerned groups and set them against each other so they can be more easily manipulated with appeals to victimhood and by demonization of their "oppressors". Another result is that many people are either programmed to fail because they are told they are oppressed or afraid to succeed and become an oppressor. This increases poverty, dependence on government, and support for leftist political parties. Cultural Marxism is related to "political correctness" because any attempts to heal the political polarization and other corrosive effects on society by opposing identity politics is said to identify individuals as oppressors and in that way silence political opposition.
Cultural Marxism is not just a construct used by conservatives. Jonathan Haidt who is a liberal sociologist describes it in this video at 1:03:
So there was a kind of a culture, we can talk about it in a moment but it's organized around victims of oppression its a vertical metaphor of privileged and oppressor people and victims.
Cultural Marxism involves cognitive distortions that can cause mental illness.
Cultural Marxism teaches people the distorted ways of thinking that are characteristic of mental illness. Cognitive therapy is one of the most effective forms of psychological treatment. It teaches people to recognize and eliminate distorted thinking that can cause depression and anxiety. Cultural Marxism is the opposite of cognitive therapy. It teaches people the distorted ways of thinking that cognitive therapy is designed to cure. Jonathan Haidt discusses this in an article he is a coauthor of on theltlantic.com:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/
Below is a list of fifteen common cognitive distortions from
psychcentral.com
1. Filtering.
We take the negative details and magnify them while filtering out all positive aspects of a situation.
2. Polarized Thinking (or “Black and White” Thinking).
In polarized thinking, things are either “black-or-white.”
3. Overgeneralization.
In this cognitive distortion, we come to a general conclusion based on a single incident or a single piece of evidence.
4. Jumping to Conclusions.
Without individuals saying so, we know what they are feeling and why they act the way they do.
5. Catastrophizing.
We expect disaster to strike, no matter what.
6. Personalization.
Personalization is a distortion where a person believes that everything others do or say is some kind of direct, personal reaction to the person.
7. Control Fallacies.
If we feel externally controlled, we see ourselves as helpless a victim of fate.
8. Fallacy of Fairness.
We feel resentful because we think we know what is fair, but other people won’t agree with us.
9. Blaming.
We hold other people responsible for our pain, or take the other track and blame ourselves for every problem.
10. Shoulds.
We have a list of ironclad rules about how others and we should behave.
11. Emotional Reasoning.
We believe that what we feel must be true automatically.
12. Fallacy of Change.
We expect that other people will change to suit us if we just pressure or cajole them enough.
13. Global Labeling.
We generalize one or two qualities into a negative global judgment.
14. Always Being Right.
We are continually on trial to prove that our opinions and actions are correct.
15. Heaven’s Reward Fallacy.
We expect our sacrifice and self-denial to pay off, as if someone is keeping score.
Belief that all people are either oppressed or oppressors involves many cognitive distortions including: filtering, polarized thinking, overgeneralization, jumping to conclusions, catastrophizing, personalization, control fallacies, blaming, shoulds, fallacies of change, global labeling, always being right.
In his book The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics, Mark Lilla, professor of humanities at Columbia University, a liberal, explains how progressive students have been intellectually damaged by identity politics:
(Excerpt by Ed Driscoll)
https://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2017/09/15/lilla-after-identity-politics-review/)
As a teacher, I am increasingly struck by a difference between my conservative and progressive students. Contrary to the stereotype, the conservatives are far more likely to connect their engagements to a set of political ideas and principles. Young people on the left are much more inclined to say that they are engaged in politics as an X, concerned about other Xs and those issues touching on X-ness. And they are less and less comfortable with debate.
Over the past decade a new, and very revealing, locution has drifted from our universities into the media mainstream: Speaking as an X…This is not an anodyne phrase. It sets up a wall against any questions that come from a non-X perspective. Classroom conversations that once might have begun, I think A, and here is my argument, now take the form, Speaking as an X, I am offended that you claim B. What replaces argument, then, are taboos against unfamiliar ideas and contrary opinions.
Cultural Marxism destroys its victim's ability to reason. Progressives can't explain how their beliefs are supported logically by facts. Instead of understanding whether their beliefs are valid, they chant slogans they have learned from someone else.
I teach in a law school. For several years now my students have been mostly Millennials. Contrary to stereotype, I have found that the vast majority of them want to learn. But true to stereotype, I increasingly find that most of them cannot think, don’t know very much, and are enslaved to their appetites and feelings. Their minds are held hostage in a prison fashioned by elite culture and their undergraduate professors.
As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him, even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents and pictures. ...he will refuse to believe it
The overreaction to the 2016 election provides ample evidence that cultural Marxism causes mental illness:
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My university is holding support groups for people terrified bc of the election results. Tell me again how every election is just like this?
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“I think students everywhere are really afraid and need inspiration from current stakeholders,” said Larissa Szilagyi, the founder of the Women’s Political Caucus at Pace. “A lot of colleges are doing programming to help alleviate this anxiety — not because of their allegiance toward a conservative or liberal agenda, but because communities need to inhabit safe spaces. These programs help show students that we can overcome and we shall overcome oppression.”
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“Because of the climate of this campus after the election and the number of students who would rather stay at home than go to class, I think keeping the campus active and loving and supportive is the best way to help students feel safer on campus,” she said.
A good way to understand what cultural Marxism is, is to consider how it has affected feminism.
Feminists used to be people who believed that women should be given the same opportunities in society that men have. The movement told women they were as good as men and could be successful at the same jobs as men.
Since cultural Marxism has taken over the movement, feminism has become about how men are the enemy and about how women need to be protected from them. Women are no longer equal, no longer able to fend for themselves, they need special protection because they are oppressed.
This is why cultural Marxism is subversive and culturally destructive. It does not encourage people to strive to excel, it convinces people they are being prevented from reaching their potential. Cultural Marxism also discourages people from taking on roles that lead to success in life for fear of becoming an "oppressor". Instead of uniting people as equals, cultural Marxism divides them setting them up as enemies fighting each other and it justifies and creates an expectation of failure.
"Dr Joanna Williams, a lecturer in higher education at Kent University ...
... said that if girls are instilled with a mindset of victimhood at a young age, it can set them back later in life. “When women go out into the world of work and experience obstacles, rather than persevering they think ‘oh these are the insurmountable barriers I was told about'."
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Dr Williams said that the narrative continues at university where students are told that there is a "rape culture" or some kind of "epidemic" of sexual assault on campus.
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“It is very difficult for women to present themselves as powerful, strong and capable if they think they need to be wary and anxious," she said.
A similar phenomenon occurred in other minority rights movements with equally harmful consequences.
But as David Horowitz says in the video above, people born in the United States don't know what oppression really is. No one is oppressed here. That's why oppressed people from all over the world want to come here to live.
Unfortunately, the leaders of political and social movements find it easier to gain power by preaching oppression not empowerment because it is easier to set yourself up as a "rebel leader" than as a role model for success.
The following video discussion between Camille Paglia and Christina Hoff Sommers illustrates how
cultural Marxism has debased feminism and all other minority rights movements by changing their focus from the belief that we are all equal to the belief that some people are oppressed.
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Camille Paglia: “It’s really started at the level of public school education. I’ve been teaching now for 46 years as a classroom teacher, and I have felt the slow devolution of the quality of public school education in the classroom.”
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“What has happened is these young people now getting to college have no sense of history – of any kind! No sense of history. No world geography. No sense of the violence and the barbarities of history. So, they think that the whole world has always been like this, a kind of nice, comfortable world where you can go to the store and get orange juice and milk, and you can turn on the water and the hot water comes out. They have no sense whatever of the destruction, of the great civilizations that rose and fell, and so on – and how arrogant people get when they’re in a comfortable civilization. They now have been taught to look around them to see defects in America – which is the freest country in the history of the world – and to feel that somehow America is the source of all evil in the universe, and it’s because they’ve never been exposed to the actual evil of the history of humanity. They know nothing!”
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Camille Paglia: My generation of the 1960's, when I arrived in college in 1964 there were parietal rules in place so that the women in my dorm had to sign in at 11:00 at night. The men could run free. It was my generation that rose up and said that we wanted to be treated equally and we want freedom. And the colleges said the world is a dangerous place. You could be attacked you could be raped. We said, "Give us the freedom to risk rape. Freedom is much more important than protection and safety. And that's what young people have given up today.
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Christina Hoff Sommers: And right now the fashion is the identity politics, intersectionality, this is all the rage, and its the premise of this theory it's the idea that all the oppressions intersect with one another and form this matrix of oppression. And so young people in a typical gender studies class now learn that they inhabit a society that is this matrix of oppression and depending on your identity you might be advantaged so you have unearned privilege or you might be burdened because of your race or maybe your disability or your gender or preference and on and on. But underneath it all is this assumption that the United States is a white supremacist imperialist capitalist patriarchal oppressive society. And in order to liberate ourselves we have to, I don't even know what they want to do - because it's all - maybe blame one another and form - have little feuds, on social media and on campus.
Recent reporting has shown that Russia’s attempts to inflame America’s political divisions included a concerted effort to promote identity politics, which currently dominates the American left wing.
Several Russian accounts posed as a racial activist groups similar to Black Lives Matter. One of those pages, Black Matters, organized the massive anti-Trump protest in New York City on Nov. 12, four days after Trump won the election.
Another page, Blacktivist, had a bigger Facebook reach than the official Black Lives Matter Facebook account by the time it was shut down.
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Yet another Russian account promoted a militant form of feminism, similar to the kind pushed by Women’s March organizers. The Russian operatives behind the account even fooled Women’s March organizers into sharing their content on Facebook.
Cultural Marxism (Political correctness) can be addicting, it "teaches you to be a powerless victim", and "makes you unhappy by fomenting unrealistic expectations of utopia, and inciting resentment and jealousy,” it’s “terrible for mental health":
Dr. Loretta Breuning, who was a professor of Management for over 20 years at California State before she left academia to launch her own think-tank, The Inner Mammalian Institute.
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Breuning’s “ah-ha” moment came in the 1990s, when she realized she was lying to her students for “fear of sounding right-wing.” She writes that she “didn’t want to subordinate my life to ideological despotism,” but she ultimately felt she had no choice.
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“I saw facts that conflicted with the prevailing belief system, but I questioned myself because I saw that people who question progressive assertions are ridiculed, shunned, and attacked,” said Bruening, who is also a member of Heterodox Academy.
“When I saw how the politically correct world view was affecting my kids, I found the courage to take off the goggles and see life without it,” she explained. “It took time, but I learned to meet my own needs instead of relying on political correctness to meet them for me. I want to help others take off the progressive goggles.”
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While political correctness “offers a fast, easy way to pull yourself up by putting others down,” Breuning’s book offers strategies that can be used to hack your brain, so that you can trigger “feel good” chemicals without needing to engage in political correctness.
This can be hard, since some people are “addicted” to political correctness, Breuning says, noting that “if political correctness brought you rewards in youth, you got wired to seek good feelings from political correctness, and fear the loss of it.”
“You are effectively addicted to political correctness,” she declares. “It's better than substance addiction, but the two often go together. New neural pathways are hard to build, but it’s possible with repetition.”
Breuning argues that escaping political correctness isn’t about making a political statement. Instead, she argues that it can make well-intentioned people very unhappy in the long-run, since it “teaches you to be a powerless victim.”
“It wants you to be unhappy because that’s regarded as the engine of revolution. Political correctness makes you unhappy by fomenting unrealistic expectations of utopia, and inciting resentment and jealousy,” she says, adding that it’s “terrible for mental health.”
Source: Joe Rogan Experience #1006 - Jordan Peterson & Bret Weinstein
https://youtu.be/6G59zsjM2UI?t=1h30m29s
Marxists criticize capitalism because under that system a few people have most of the money. The flaw in that criticism is that it is true of every economic system not just capitalism. The principle is true in every form of human endeavor. For example the most widely read books are written by a few authors. This principle is called the Pareto principle named an Italian economist. It is more commonly known as the 80/20 rule.
The Pareto principle (also known as the 80/20 rule, the law of the vital few, or the principle of factor sparsity) states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.
When President Trump selected his department heads and advisors, he wanted the best person for each job. But he missed a very important consideration. He might have realized that he would be smeared with false statements by the media and he should have considered whether his picks would stand up to the media or if they would put their own reputations first and squirm to avoid being smeared by association.
Silencing opposition through political correctness, and shadow government control over the media are two tactics being used against America in Higgins' War. President Trump is practically the only politician fighting against political correctness and against the controlled media. His willingness to stand up and fight is one of the reasons he was elected President. His department heads and advisors should be willing to stand up and fight with him.
Unfortunately, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and director of the U.S. National Economic Council Gary Cohn, instead of fighting, are squirming. They both have criticized President Trump for his remarks following the Charlottesville riots. President Trump condemned the hate and violence on all sides saying in part, "We all must be united and condemn all that hate stands for. There is no place for this kind of violence in America. Let's come together as one." But the media misrepresented his remarks as support for racist groups. Tillerson and Cohn have failed to resist the media smear, they have both made statements to the press accepting the lies as truth to protect themselves from the smear.
Cohn, who is Jewish, told the FT that “citizens standing up for equality and freedom can never be equated with white supremacists, neo-Nazis and the K.K.K.” He said the administration “can and must do better” in condemning such groups.
In contrast, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin defended President Trump against the smear:
Instapundit: STANDING UP TO THE SHAME MOB: Steven Mnuchin fires defiant message back at Yale classmates pressuring him to resign over Trump’s Charlottesville comments.
As the President said in his very first comment on the events that were unfolding in Charlottesville, "We all must be united and condemn all that hate stands for. There is no place for this kind of violence in America. Let's come together as one."
“When he talks about the fact that hatred and bigotry and these things are unacceptable,” Carson said of Trump, “he’s talking about everybody. … You’d think he was saying that hatred and bigotry are unacceptable except by neo-Nazis. We really have got to begin to think more logically and stop trying to stir up controversy and start concentrating on the issues that threaten us and threaten our children.”
