Morality is always the product of terror (and panic); its chains and strait jackets are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they do not dare to trust themselves, to walk in liberty. — Aldous Huxley author of the novel Brave New World
How could one not see that the entire 2024 election was a Hollywood choreographed theatrical performance with a cast of millions? This is the only conclusion one can reasonably make as the election was a socially engineered moral panic meant to steer mainly swing voters to the “moral” candidate over the “corrupt” candidate. This is an example of a “Big Lie” because it is so open and notorious that no one would believe it is a lie. Big lies are sustainable only as long as the consequences of the lie can be shielded from the people. Thus the growing post election disillusionment by voters of both parties but not abandoning their party affiliation after the election as long as they hung on to their government jobs, subsidies, pensions or Medicare benefits.
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Both Democrats and Republicans did not want to believe that they had been played for a fool by their respective parties and “doubled down” their support for their respective presidential candidates. This paradoxical strengthening of voter’s trust in their party candidate, despite that every branch of government is weaponized against the people, is called “cognitive dissonance” (see Brad Olsen, Beyond Esoteric: Escaping Prison Planet, 2021).
The entire four-year tenure of the Biden administration has been a choreographed and socially engineered drama with the Democrats playing the role of the inept villains, and Republicans playing the only moral power to stop them. Sociologists call such social engineering a “Moral Panic”:
What is a socially constructed moral panic? It is mass collective mind control based on the false or exaggerated perception that some cultural behavior or group of people is dangerously deviant and poses a threat to society’s values and interests. Moral panics are generally fueled by media coverage of social issues. Those promoting a moral panic are called moral entrepreneurs. Moral panics always draw attention away from underlying social problems and they always have negative consequences, unintended or otherwise. Many sociologists have observed that those in power ultimately benefit from moral panics, since they lead to increased control of the population and opportunities to plunder government treasuries for power, profit and control. The moral panic is also useful if your goal is to weaken the working class and reward the Knowledge Class (Wikipedia, also see Stanley Cohen, Folk Devils and Moral Panics, 2011).
For clarification, moral panics are socially constructed reality not pure social fiction even though they are contrived. Historical examples of contrived moral panics are the Salem Witch Trials and the Chistian Day Care Ritual Abuse Moral Panic of the 1980’s, designed to destroy family-owned Christian day care centers competing with government centers.
It is interesting to note that sociologists recently formed a focus group of young adults to determine which persuasion tactic for taking COVID-19 vaccinations was most effective. The most effective method was to appeal to altruism (“grandma and grandpa are vulnerable, and you have to do your part for the greater good”). So, religious voters, such as Republican Evangelical Christian MAGA voters, are most susceptible to social control by using moralism and altruism, as are Democrat Leftists with their “virtue signaling” about Critical Race Theory, DEI -Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Transgender change policies. Ironically, Evangelicals sociologically have the lowest participation rate in getting COVID-19 shots because of their distrust of government, but when it comes to elections, they are prone to fall for the moralism vote.
Back on August 26, 2024, I called this the Good Cop/Bad Cop scheme (see How Will the Elite Get Us to Vote for Mass Surveillance: The Good Cop/Bad Cop Scheme). It should have been obvious both political parties were colluding in a giant game of “good cop – bad cop” to steer voters in favor of Trump just as an accused criminal is manipulated to confess and cop a plea by the “kind” interrogator over the tough one. And this trick was wildly successful in 2024 elections in part because Evangelical Christians are trained to look at events through a moralistic and altruistic lens.
However, they were blind to see that the Democrats were obviously throwing the 2024 election, witness Biden playing a senile president and Harris, who got no votes from her own party in the primaries, playing the role of incompetent and courtesan. Even leftist newspapers refused to endorse Harris.
Remember the video showing Biden falling off a bicycle in Delaware in 2022, of course in front on many media cameras – see here? Italian Maurizio Viroli in his book The Liberty of Servants: Silvio Berlusconi, describes how the unofficial press secretary for Berlusconi in Italy feigned a fall when Berlusconi’s media ratings plummeted:
“While there is no official buffoon at the new court, there is no shortage of courtiers who are eager to render themselves ridiculous…more often in order to comply with the orders – explicit or implicit – of the signore (Berlusconi)…One example might be that of Emilio Fede, when he joins in the rejuvenating ritual of a healthy run, led by the signore…the devoted seventy-plus year old courtier trips and falls headlong, offering a pathetic spectacle to the photographers…No sacrifice is too great, not even the sacrifice of one’s dignity to remain in proximity to the signore and to comply with his wishes…The signore…does not hesitate to humiliate his courtiers publicly” portraying himself as the example of competency.
Only in the case of Biden he plays both the role of President and quasi-official buffoon taking his cues from the oligarchs who control the government. But, Biden did not appear senile in this video when he argues with Obama in a feigned private conversation about the inevitability of his losing the presidential race – see here. This video was obviously staged as “predictive programming” to discourage Democrat voters about the chances of winning the upcoming election. Politicians of both parties are actors and will say anything on camera – witness Trump’s infamous Hollywood Access video as a paid actor saying his lines out of a script as if spontaneous trying to pump ratings for a reality TV show in 2016. Reality and fiction are blurred in such media spectacles.
The question I must ask is: were Trump voters moral fools, as they were led to believe that Trump was the only moral choice or at minimum the lesser evil? To vote for Trump was a moral vote against the Democrat Party that openly and notoriously worked hard to be treasonous, buffoons, clowns, and evil for the last four years. But how could conservative Republicans believe otherwise when even their intellectual leaders, knowingly or unknowingly, drove them to believe the moral panic delusion, such as historian Victor Davis Hanson (“The Immorality of Illegal Immigration”, “The Trump Counterrevolution is a Return to Sanity”, “From ‘Clingers’ to ‘Garbage’- Why 16 Years of Vilification?’, ‘Is Biden Malicious, Incompetent or Conniving?’, ‘Hamas and Amoral Clarity’, etc. Hanson has no sociological comprehension of the “big picture” and never added that moral corruption was real but was a psy-op designed for social steering of the election. Anyone who could not see that leaders of both parties were colluding in a giant fabricated morality play lacks sociological perception and moral perspicacity themselves. Which raises another big question.
Even if Trump were now to reverse his selections for his cabinet and surgeon general, and halted the wars, this would not change the reality that American voters, both left and right, fell for a contrived but nonetheless oppressive moral panic. Which raises another question: what moral lessons can we learn from the staged “moral vs. immoral” narrative of the 2024 election?
The moral lesson of the above-described mass moral panic is that voters should not trust the political class in either major party, or third party “spite parties” designed to siphon votes from Republicans (Green, Justice parties) or from Democrats (Labor parties). Partisan politicians are all actors on a stage. We don’t even know who effectually runs the federal government in the US with mainly Biden administration actors playing senile and court courtesans and Trump a lifetime actor (The Apprentice, Access Hollywood).
What little we know suggests rule by oligarchs or a secret society. Bio-engineer and little-known presidential candidate Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai calls the unseen rulers “The Swarm” for their telepathic ability to act in concert like a flock of starlings. Sociologists call them the “Knowledge Class” who are adversaries and parasites of the Working Class. The Knowledge Class has acquired a degree of class consciousness, solidarity, and mental telepathy that keeps them on top of the social class pyramid by fracturing the Working Class, keeping them disorganized, co-opting them into top-down unions, or depopulating them by drafting them for wars. Both evangelical Christians and Leftists are caught up in a tragicomical game where each see the other as immoral, or conversely as racist, but both end up being persuaded for covert purposes that rob themselves of their freedom.
Paradoxically, voters from both parties have dirty hands from depopulation by wars and vaccinations as the unintended ultimate consequences of their voting actions but don’t seem to suffer from any tragic remorse or anguish or acts of penance or opposition to the government as long as they receive the government payouts (see David Shugarman, Cruelty and Deception: The Controversy Over Dirty Hands in Politics, 1992). Both parties claim moral superiority despite moral blindness. This is because both classes lack sociological consciousness to see how they are controlled by elites. External persuasion and their own self-sabotaging cognitive resistance only strengthens their blindness and reduces self-responsibility even further.
Conservatives, libertarians and independents need to learn how a fabricated moral panic works, how a false dialectic (dialog) of the immoral versus the moral can work to steer voters into voting for their own suppression and oppression, and how their own intellectual leaders can embrace a moralistic or altruistic manipulative social control ideology. This is why religion was historically the main social mechanism of social control with moral codes only for the enslaved not the criminal rulers (Ten Commandments); learned helplessness through hypnotic prayer, not eyes wide open prayer; rendering government taxes unto Caesar and blindly fighting deceptive banker’s wars on behalf of elites to unknowingly depopulate themselves.
Libertarianism is opposed to forced moralism but is also opposed to fraudulent (or self-deceiving) moralism that is nonetheless voluntary as reflected in socially engineered moral panics. Given adherents of both political parties fell for the socially engineered moral panic, this does not vindicate Marxist theory that morality reflects only bourgeoise class interests. Evangelical Christian Republicans cannot “appropriate morality” for themselves any more than Democrats with their Critical Race Theory. Rather, awareness of how moralism is used for social control casts blame on the morality of those hidden elites fabricating such a panic.
Freedom can only be gained by understanding how the puppet strings of the oligarch’s work. Some suggestions:
* Vote with a Realistic Libertarian framework(Mises.org),
* Tuning out televised moralistic propaganda of the election – see Mind Control in the United States, Stephen Jacobsen
* Reading Elections: Do They Really Matter? (Mises.org)
* Reading book The Power to Control: How the Elite Conspire Against You
* Reading book Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says About Play, Religion and Imagined Worlds.
* Reading book Identifying Moral Panic: The Discourse of Fear in Social Policy
* Reading book COVID-19: The Politics of a Pandemic Moral Panic
* Reading Invitation to Sociology especially chapter 2 Sociology as a Form of Consciousness by Peter Berger
* Finding a true independent, bottoms up candidates wherever available.
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To do this may further require an understanding how political theater has been brought out of the ancient oligarch controlled religious fables and modern TV’s and movies, into mind captivating outdoor spectacles such as fake anti-race riots and waves of illiterate immigrants designed to de-moralize (Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle, 2000). National elections have become spectacles, not public forums.
Trump has often described life and politics as a contest between the “winners” and the “losers”, implying “winners” have the moral high ground. Winners write history and always justify their wars as moral and cover up their war crimes. But how do we gauge the morality of a political election where the intentional losers may be the effectual socially engineered winners, and the winners may have post-election remorse, and the losers suffer from election loss shell shock? The saying “morality is for suckers” comes to mind, but we are all suckers, except perhaps for non-voters. Perhaps the only moral lesson is that of W.C. Fields: “It is wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money” for there would otherwise be nothing redeeming learned from the post-election outcome. But a sucker must be conscious he was suckered, something woefully nonexistent in a mass media mind-controlled society.
This would presume that religious conservatives wake up from their unconsciousness facilitated by Judeo-Christianism (not Christianity), an unlikely possibility given Christian clergy all accepted COVID Payroll Protection Checks from $50,000 to $100,000 each to close their doors during the lockdown (while strip clubs, massage parlors and casinos remained open). The $16 trillion cost of COVID then was capitalized into money inflation we have experienced since then, and we all accepted the payouts and then wondered what caused the purchasing power of the dollar to plummet. We are mostly not aware that inflation was co-created by our being bought off. Society is always a process of an unseeming voluntary co-creation of those controlled by elites. Humans are responsible for their actions. We live lives of bad faith when we attribute to iron like moral necessity what they themselves are choosing to do. Reality is that the recent past election afforded little moral choice but to vote for Trump, no matter if unconsciously manipulated, but it also served to thwart wide-awake consciousness and freedom.
