Can a Whole Country Go Mad?
American Thinker,
by
Judith Acosta
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
7/18/2020 1:20:25 AM
“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
(Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland)
The other day I was watching TV.
(We’re quarantined. Sometimes there is little else to do.)
In any case, in the mindless surfing that approaches an altered state, I saw an ad that left me nearly apoplectic. It consisted of a series of faces covered by masks of all types and sizes. The voice-over repeated like the peeling of bells over St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Easter: “This is not a mask. This is not a mask. This is not a mask. This is solidarity.”
It propelled me off the couch. I screamed, “IT’S A MASK.”
From the looks of things: yes. The social experiment worked.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 7/18/2020 1:30:09 AM (No. 482130)
I'm fine but there are a hell of a lot of folks who really have lost their minds.
Believing way too much of the Enemedia lies.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
EQKimball 7/18/2020 1:43:16 AM (No. 482139)
Solidarity is the comfort briefly enjoyed by lemmings headed towards the cliff.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
ALynnMcW 7/18/2020 1:47:03 AM (No. 482142)
Well Stated. Dear Lord make me bold enough to share this with those that are believing in the shadows and not reality. My educated but not so wise daughter and son-in-law the first two. Both psych majors. One practicing.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Catherine 7/18/2020 3:41:56 AM (No. 482169)
I don't think it's the majority of people. It's only those who control the media and make us think they are the majority. Notice we no longer get to make comments anywhere but Lucianne and a handful of other places.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Highlander 7/18/2020 5:18:59 AM (No. 482191)
I have problems breathing with a face diaper. I think I’ll cut out holes just for my nose and mouth. What is a Karen gonna do about it?
I saw that video of a guy wearing a paint-ball mask where I could easily see his face through the mesh. He said nobody bothered him. ( I think his burliness had something to do with that!).
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
planetgeo 7/18/2020 6:34:34 AM (No. 482221)
A whole country? No. About half of it? Yes. And the good thing is that they self-identify (D). I mean in addition to the unbelievably stupid things they say and do.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Daisymay 7/18/2020 7:25:15 AM (No. 482270)
We were watching local news last night where the School Board was arguing about sending kids back to school. I actually laughed out loud at some of the Masks worn by those ladies. They looked like they had plopped a Huggie on their face and tied a shoe string around it to keep it on. They looked like Idiots!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
franq 7/18/2020 7:27:35 AM (No. 482272)
No, just half of the people are crazy. Dumb, too, no matter what their title. That's why they want to ditch the Electoral College and replace it with the popular vote. Then just a one vote margin over the other side will carry the day. Sort of like the courts now.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/18/2020 7:30:23 AM (No. 482274)
I blame social media. For all of the current insanity; not just the masks.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
RCFLyer98 7/18/2020 7:34:53 AM (No. 482281)
Agree #'s 2 and 5. The larger portion of the media, whether it's TV, Newspapers, Magazines, coupled with the Democrat Party by in large, along with some participating RINOs Never-Trumpers, have managed to create this chaos we're experiencing. They lie, they misrepresent, they hide truth, they embellish! IMHO, not one has offered any solutions, nor help in any way to calm the masses and quiet the madness. All have fanned the flames of discord and discontent until we have the mayhem that is going on. All in their quest for victory, their quest for power, we all suffer. It's leading to disaster folks. Seems to me, the people are getting fed up with it, and then what?? 1860??
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Rinktum 7/18/2020 7:39:56 AM (No. 482287)
It is scary to go out and see everyone complying with this mask foolishness. I just keep thinking, where did that American spirit go? I thought we were more independent than that. However, the lemmings that walk among us are so pleased with themselves for caring about others unlike anyone who questions the efficacy of a mask. I care, but not enough to abandon all reasonable thought in order to go along to get along. It just grates against every fiber of my being to be forced to wear a mask without real scientific data to support it’s effectiveness. I want to scream, this is not Ebola! I can only imagine, having never experienced oppression before, that this is what it feels like and this American wants no part of it. I, like most Americans, just want my country back.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
MMC 7/18/2020 7:54:59 AM (No. 482308)
Well, we are living in interesting times...
However, if you only read news- yes the world has gone to h3ll. However, live! Get outside , go to stores, go to restaurants ;wear your virtual signal mask- but Savor the freedom of America!
Look for her beauty, celebrate her best aspects- and fight for right to go to polling places..
All else is distraction- all elections have consequences- even the dog catcher is an important elected official in this election cycle!
Vote- and don’t let fraud of voting often steal your vote..
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
fayebeck 7/18/2020 8:18:37 AM (No. 482325)
At least one thing is certain. America WILL NEVER accept socialism. Lock and Load. We will NEVER accept anymore lockdowns neither. No by god we won't. s
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I am shocked at some of my friends who are freaked out by believing what they see on the news.
It is really easy to identify those who think like you these days.
I was going to the front of the line at Costco with about 15 minutes remaining in the over 60 hour. I pulled out a required muzzle. A really helpful man in the line said, "you have it on backwards". I said to the crowd, "this thing is useless either way" and kept walking.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
dolphin 7/18/2020 9:02:50 AM (No. 482382)
I hear a lot of complaints. What are we going to do? When are we going to do it?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/18/2020 9:04:53 AM (No. 482384)
Yes. Unfortunately America is a living example but we see the madness in other places too like Londonistan. When you see the madness you are not mad.
As far as normal goes, Judith is describing Stockholm Syndrome. If you live a way of life long enough it becomes normal, or as the parrots out there like to say, "the new normal."
A couple of historical corrections. The Aztecs did not have a blood lust nor did the other peoples across the world that practiced human sacrifice. The sun was their god and the sacrifice was just a way to give your most precious gift to the sun to assure good hunting and a good harvest. Of course it was normal.
Have you ever gone to work in an office up until about 1980 and did not wear a tie? Complete with dark blue suit and white shirt if you worked for IBM or EDS? The boss would have apoplexy, point it out before you had your coffee and some people were actually sent home to "dress properly." Yes, ties were masks and men complied for decades. The sheep gene is strong.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 7/18/2020 9:05:25 AM (No. 482385)
Be nice to see some kind of anti-radical movement build. One with a leader, some organization, some FIGHT BACK. It sure isn't going to be the GOP.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 7/18/2020 9:19:29 AM (No. 482395)
Indeed, yes, an entire country can be made to go mad and the left has certainly perfected the art of driving a country mad.
It's not hard to understand why we are here. The left became quite expert on manipulating the mind with group thought long ago. Very Alinsky-esque. The left's conduit for manipulating our mind's consists of the msm, social media, entertainment, and the schools. Regardless if you believe the pandemic was planned and engineered from the beginning or just an ill-timed accident, by confining us to our homes while wearing useless masks when in public is intended to condition us to be the compliant underclass. Group think at its best. When's the last time you made it through one day without being told the latest statistics on the pandemic. Right now, Obie and communism are winning. Why? Because we are letting it win. And Obie is now pleasing the Rothchilds and his other globalist masters who were most disappointed in his inability to deliver Billary in 2016.
Ever wonder what happened to America's soul? Up until February, we still had one. Until we allowed the left, msm, social media, education, and entertainment to strip it away from us, that is. And we continue to let them. Now would be a really good time to wake the H up, America, and defeat this evil...for God's sakes.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Hermoine 7/18/2020 9:30:03 AM (No. 482402)
People have lost their damn minds. They have bought into the hysteria and there's no "re-educating" them to the ways of sanity. My creepy experience has been at the grocery story. Every time I go to Kroger, I hear the Orwellian messge repeated over the sound system: "Remember, we're all in this together." It sends chills up my spine every time I hear it. I feel like I'm in one of the Hunger Games movies.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
mc squared 7/18/2020 9:30:44 AM (No. 482404)
Reminds me of the old Twilight Zone episode - 'The Monsters Are Due On maple Street"
Searlings closing narration was this: The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices...to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill...and suspicion can destroy...and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own – for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.
Television USED to be thought provoking.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Catfur27 7/18/2020 9:35:37 AM (No. 482413)
...we're in Month 5 of the "2 week shutdown"...and the percentage of people testing positive in my 5 county area in New York State ( over 1.3 million) is still below 1% ..??
....I am 67 ...lived in the same major northeasern city my whole life ...am pretty social ....and do not know ONE person that has become sick with covid ....!!???.....WHAT "pandemic"...???
..the sheep will claim the numbers are low because of the masks...???.... I say that's the like people in Romania and Bulgaria who- to this day - wear garlic necklaces...to ward off vampires ...??...( because they believe what they've been told by their elders - who would never lie to them... ) ....and they will argue that it works... because they have not been attacked by any vampires ...??
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Bluefindad 7/18/2020 10:01:09 AM (No. 482455)
Great article! I especially like the reference to "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a noise?". I used to use that phrase when teaching Sunday School. The point, as the author clearly states, is that the structure and dynamics of the world objectively exist in spite of our ability to observe and interpret them. God made the world and created the rules. We cannot change them by whim or will. when we forget that, we commit the same sin that Eve committed in the garden, wanting to become a god.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
The Remnants 7/18/2020 10:26:14 AM (No. 482490)
Great article. And I agree with author that the world is trying to exist without God, so no order, which some people love because when there is chaos someone bigger than us can step in and put us all in some kind of cages. And i know God is everywhere, but even our churches are becoming like prison camps with arrows and tapes on the pews.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
JackBurton 7/18/2020 10:38:34 AM (No. 482507)
The Aztec empire performed an estimated 200,000 human sacrifices a year, including (maybe especially) young children and babies.
Yes. They were cannibals. (file this fact under "The Arrival of the Europeans Corrupted Everything.")
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
NotaBene 7/18/2020 10:46:16 AM (No. 482516)
It is pealing of bells, not peeling. Sorry.
Cultural Marxists are not mad. They found a way to defeat the greatest American President ever.
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A political party will nominate a man with clear signs of dementia as their presidential candidate. How must more obvious can our collective insanity be ?
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Italiano 7/18/2020 12:06:58 PM (No. 482674)
I suspect that God is watching this election with His finger on the button.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 7/18/2020 1:20:56 PM (No. 482770)
Black lives MADDER which leads to
Black lives MURDER
And that crazy-ass fascist PRO-FASCISM
That’s who’s crazy mad!!!!
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
4Justice 7/18/2020 3:33:34 PM (No. 482903)
Actually, the whole world went insane.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 7/18/2020 5:51:13 PM (No. 483040)
I'm mad (angry). Maybe many of you folks are too
Most of the rest of them are insane.
(and stupid)
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
walcb 7/18/2020 8:28:23 PM (No. 483134)
I choose not to participate.
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