At the end of 2020, I became certified in hypnotherapy. Hypnosis, as a healing modality, is actually a surprisingly conservative pursuit because it encourages personal responsibility in all aspects of life. But hypnosis as a concept provides striking insights into the minds of Americans today.

If you think the country is suffering from mass hysteria…if you can’t understand how your friends, even conservative ones, have faulty memories and believe ideas unsupported by fact, you’re about to have some idea why. 

Hypnosis employs trance, a natural state of mind, to reprogram the subconscious, resulting in desired behaviors and outcomes. We drift into the brain wave frequencies for trance multiple times a day—we’re in mild trance watching TV, for example. The subconscious makes up 90% of our thought process, and we use it to interpret the world. Once a belief is programmed into the subconscious, it stays there until another programming event replaces it. There are six ways to program the subconscious:
authority figures, peer pressure, high emotion, repetition, the meditative state (the brain waves I referred to), and when one says “yes” to an idea. Hypnosis can’t make people go against their values, yet it can help people who want to believe a thing believe it without proof. 

For example, the September 13 Wall Street Journal article “Covid Faces Complicated Path to Become a Routine Illness” begins: “Covid might become a routine illness like the common cold…virologists and epidemiologists say, but it will take a lot to get there, and the ferocious spread of the Delta variant that has filled hospitals shows how challenging that path could be.” Think about how the words are used. “Ferocious” and “filled hospitals” are unnecessary to the sentence’s meaning, but add emotion to an already emotional topic as well as repetition to something we’ve been hearing for almost 2 years. “Filled hospitals” also suggests peer pressure. And, what does “filled” mean? (I learned twice this year “filled” really means “staff shortage.”)  Lending an air of authority are the unspecified “virologist and epidemiologists.” That the story was printed in the WSJ also lends authority. In fact, some would say “yes” to the article simply because the story is printed in a trusted source. Add to it that the reader is likely in mild trance, absorbing the front page over morning coffee. So, despite the fact that these first two sentences are poorly written and contain no hard facts, every box has been ticked that might program the reader to
fear Covid. The article goes on in the same fashion, ignoring provable facts until the page turn.

So, if one fears illness, death, and rejection from friends, if one puts too much trust in authority and agrees with certain sources without thinking, one is likely to forget that statistics show deaths from Covid are comparable to deaths in a bad flu season. One is likely to believe WSJ that Delta Variant (scary new name) is “supercontagious” (is that a word?) and “virtually impossible to get rid of.” 

The article’s content loses power when I compare it to practical experience: the virus is smaller than the holes in N-95 masks, so the masks don’t help much; and while I know about a dozen people who’ve had Covid, I know no one first hand who has died of it. Certainly others do, and certainly Covid is risky for specific populations—the elderly and the obese, for example. But if this was the worst pandemic ever, someone my age should know at least one who died, and those who know one or two should know many. Statistically, our aged Congress should include a few Covid deaths, and yet not one Congress person has died. 

I chose my example from the WSJ to show that conservatives can be hypnotized by conservative sources as easily as liberals by CNN. If we “want” to believe fake news, we will. So it’s extremely important to stay open minded about all topics until actual facts have been weighed. It’s important to remember that politicians and celebrities are humans who not only make mistakes, but usually aren’t authorities. It’s important to keep emotions to a minimum and observe situations until truth reveals itself. Some people feel emotions motivate them—as if hating Joe Biden proves he’s senile and corrupt. (In fact, he proves it when he opens his mouth.)  But emotions create a false sense of connection between people and greater ideals. We see that in Trump-hating liberals who can’t let their hate go even though Trump is out of office. Their hatred gives them purpose. Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels said, “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.” So repetition does not make something true. Research news and compare it to your practical experience before believing. 

You and everyone you know are experiencing hypnotic assault: that’s what good propaganda does. That we can’t be persuaded to go against our core values is reassuring; we will always recognize our own truth. But seeing our neighbors lose both civility and reason is scary. If it seems as if they’re living in a dream, it’s probably because they are.

Trump's Tribulations: One Man Against the Shadow

In the recent Time Magazine article “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election,” author Molly Ball shamelessly outlines the vast Left Wing Conspiracy of multinational corporations, NGOs and non-profits that banded together to steal, in our view, the election from the American people. It’s a shameless piece that both exemplifies and details exactly what we’re up against-that the elite will say anything, and worse, do anything, to keep power. The only bit left out is the input of foreign powers, like China. This propaganda piece proves we’re at war, and because we are, the threat of death lingers in the air, even if we’ve become such a polite society that it’s laughable to imagine the “right wing militias,” mentioned in the article, could actually exist.

For four years, Donald Trump, nearly single handedly, fought this war for us, and with an unconstitutional second impeachment trial, he fought on. Author of the book Trump Rules, Wayne Root knows Pres. Trump personally and describes him as “maybe the most relentless man in human history.” Root does not believe that Trump is defeated, and in fact, believes that Trump’s greatest chapter is yet to come.

Trump’s accomplishments-like his historic visit with Kim Jong Un, or the recent peace settlement in the Middle East, demonstrate that the key to his relentlessness is fearlessness. He is unafraid to tackle the most difficult situations. The key to his fearlessness is self-knowledge: as a skilled negotiator, Trump has had to examine himself as much as look for weakness in others. For only when a negotiator knows his own limits can he walk away from the table and force his opponents’ hand. Wanting things to be different is a form of not knowing the self-for there’s always a personal reason for being unwilling to see things the way they are. This unwillingness is the definition of “ego.”

Trump tends to see things the way they are. Therefore, this large, loud, vain person with orange hair is actually one of the most ego free individuals to grace the earth since Gandhi. Because Trump is a negotiator who made his fortune from negotiating, and not a person seeking power for power’s sake like the Left’s elite “revolutionaries,” he is not a leader who “wields power.” Instead, he respects each and every individual. Note: when he insults an opponent, that opponent started the fight. And
if said opponent had no weaknesses, Trump would have no ammunition with which to fight back. Note also that Trump appears to hold no grudges. Sure, he can fight dirty; but if the opponent holds no grudge, like Ted Cruz, the feud ends and a relationship is established.

The fact that Trump does not seek power, rather solutions through relationships, makes him more like us, the American people. Americans are individualists; they define themselves by their actions and achievements. This is what makes us as a country so threatening to the rest of the world. In China, for example, people are defined by their identity. Are you Chinese? Are you a member of the party? Are you a member of one of the five dominant minorities represented in the five stars of their flag? (Note China has 50 minorities, 45 of which are not
represented in their flag.) The advent of technology—the Internet, smart phones and the like—has woken the sleeping tiger of the individual worldwide. When individuals in China, Africa, Russia and South America drop their identities and discover how little
they need their governments, the power of these nations will dissipate. Similarly, here in the US, people who identify with identity politics, those who are either unable or afraid to see themselves as individuals, have become pawns of the Elite.
One day, they may wake, and see that the power to make life enjoyable and fulfilling has always rested, not in what group they belong to or pronoun they go by, but in their own hands. They will embrace America then, just as individuals around
the world will acquire a more American spirit as they embrace individuality. Trump knows this; his speech in India stands as proof.

Buy Root’s book to speculate on what Trump will do in the near future. Likely, he will be his individual self. He will fight bullies who cross him and negotiate for something better. He will live every moment fully and thereby enjoy life whether or not he “wins” by media standards. He has his own standards, and that’s what makes him American-and unbeatable. 

As for the elite? Unable to control the individual, they will overplay their hands until eventually the public sees them for the cheaters they are. No matter how many times they say cheating was justified-as Ball does in Time Magazine-no one, especially Americans, like cheaters. It may take 20 years, but they will lose power, and the individual will rule.

https://rootforamerica.com/the-trump-comeback-begins-the-plan-to-make-trump-and-america-great-again/

https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/