Useful idiots & the demoralization in America

Bezmenov on demoralization in America provides another idea as to why we are in conflict even with ourselves on so many issues & topics. I thought I'd share this and see what my fellow ATS'ers think of his views. I didn't find it on here via the search function so enjoy.

Cognitive dissonance: recipe for totalitarianism - Cognitive dissonance theory, published by Psychologist Leon Festinger in 1957, is the awareness that two or more beliefs (cognitions) that we hold are contradictory. "Awareness that two cognitions are dissonant, or that our cognitions and our behavior are contradictory, is sufficient to motivate us to reduce the discrepancy," wrote Spencer Rathaus in Psychology, Fourth Edition. Governments in particular, with the aid of the dominant news media, intend to control public perceptions and behaviors by incessantly employing scenarios which create cognitive dissonance among the masses. This is the the recipe for totalitarianism. According to the work of Festinger and others, if you present people with a concept that contains properties that are in conflict with one another, in order to restore balance, people have a tendency ignore the discrepancy, then sweep it under the rug.

Right on. That's an impressive overview of what we know has been happening in the world for the last century. Assimilation by steps. And we GAVE IT TO THEM as they entertained us and waited on us and educated our kids for us.

We sat back and GAVE America to the stinking, slimy, head-cutting socialists.

General Patton's corpse is vomiting a fountain of disgusting puke a thousand feet high.

— Doc Velocity