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    When you’re invested in the kayfabe to such an extent that it completely defines the nature of your very identity and existence, the lie is made real, and the odds of you being successfully extracted and deprogrammed go ever distant with each passing moment.

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      Wonder how many people remember the decade of the real cults. They would prey on young adults and basically turn them into slaves to support the “dear leader” of the group. And once indoctrinated, no one including their close friends and family could ever convince them that they were being used by charlatans. The only way to free them was to actually hire a “deprogrammer” which was a guy who knew how to finally show them reality. We have too much of the same charlatans today and those who promote them. And the result is zombie like behavior where even if something is good for you personally you reject it because that’s what the cult tells you to do.

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      And then other get so disgusted by this that they say “oh I hate politics, don’t make this political” and disengage, demobilize And you end up with most of the population either kayfabe-dazzle of full demobilized and these two groups weigh more than anyone else in the raw number of voting bodies so that anyone trying to “do a democracy” is completely lost in the noise.

      And that’s how democracy dies, or rather how it died sometime in the time of Nixon and isn’t going to undie, it’s undead democracy, we have a “zombie democracy”, it’s still twitching, it still says

      “Their new SCAM is what we will forever call the Jeffrey Epstein Hoax, and my PAST supporters have bought into this ‘bullshit,’ hook, line, and sinker. They haven’t learned their lesson, and probably never will, even after being conned by the Lunatic Left for 8 long years, Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work, don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support any more!”

      And then it says

      “Ouf! Ouch! Owie! My bone spurs are giving me veinous insufficiency, I need a little time out”

      And just in time for Iron Man to come out and save the day with his “America Party”

      Funny how that works out.