Chris Liss on Nostr: I've given up convincing brainwashed people that Trump is just a president to be ...

I've given up convincing brainwashed people that Trump is just a president to be evaluated on the merits like any other, that he'll do some good, some bad, that one should only believe what one can verify, etc. The TDS is so crazy now, there is no hope to get through.

So I'm stepping back and trying to convey the depth of the TDS to people who don't have it, so they understand the extent to which people have been brainwashed in this regard.

Again, it's not really about Trump per se -- he's just a politician, he's not your friend or family or anyone important in your life. But that people can be so thoroughly brainwashed about what's going on is dangerous. Voltaire's "those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" is in play.

People, normal, regular, "upstanding" people believe absolutely insane shit, and I'm not talking about denying the moon landing (I'm 20 percent in that camp) or flat earth -- those beliefs are not a problem and actually good for the discourse. Question everything, trust nothing, etc. What's insane is people believe political edicts, believe other people are evil, it's like we're in the pre-enlightenment middle ages, and the church is telling them to burn the witches and who will wind up in heaven and hell.

I'm not sure if it was the mass formation psychosis during covid that traumatized people and pushed them over the edge, or whether it started earlier the race hustling of the Obama years, the election of Trump in the first place, the excommunications from polite society if you said the wrong thing on social media. It doesn't really matter when or why.

I'm just getting a bit uneasy with how many people's brains are truly broken beyond repair, the impossibility of ever getting through and the weaponization of this zombification. People worry about CBDCs or surveillance or whatever, but those things are all downstream of a compliant populace, and the easiest way to get people to comply is have them believe in an insane narrative that is impossible to puncture or challenge.

Maybe I need to stay off Twitter and stop talking to people about their worldviews as it relates to geopolitics, but then you wonder whether you wake up one day in a dystopia that people not only wanted but insisted was essential -- for the greater good.