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JoAnn A. McClellan's avatar

INSANE CITIZENS are the foundation and cause of INSANE LEADERSHIP. Our so-called Leaders, do & say what it takes to get elected.....

AND CITIZENS ARE MORE INSANE, LACKING IN REASONABLE EXPECTATIONS, ACCOUNTABILITY, COMMON SENSE & LOGICAL THOUGHT TODAY IN 2026 THAN EVER BEFORE IN MY LIFETIME and I've been here a long time.

John Leake's avatar

True, but true leadership tempers the insanity of the people rather than fermenting it and exciting it

JoAnn A. McClellan's avatar

I suspect you aren’t paying close enough attention or maybe you’re just being generous. What you are describing is what leaders USED TO DO…what SOME STILL ARE DOING.

But for TOO MANY, getting elected & re-elected became paramount OVER maintaining one’s principles, moral and ethical compass.

NOW — if getting elected & re-elected requires jettisoning your common sense, logical thinking, what’s good for the country, and surrendering to insanity, our leaders jump onboard that train every time.

Sen. John Fetterman is an excellent case in point. He’s held onto his principles, his moral & ethical compass and is being drubbed into the ground for it. Sen Fetterman and I are not on the same page for most issues but I respect his courage.

Barbara Charis's avatar

Read it...Thanks for sharing.

Canute's avatar

Please do not come here to advertise you own essays. It is rude and impertinent.

Timothy Winey's avatar

Pasting a link in response to another post if it's relevant or extends the topic is neither rude nor impertinent; it's logical. I'm also not 'advertising,' as all my content is free. I stand to gain nothing by growing my audience.

Barbara Charis's avatar

Nothing happens without a cause(s)...and I have given a great deal of thought to this. Life over seventy years ago, was far different...and the people had more common sense. I believe that people have been physically and mentally harmed by the no-nutrient processed food, which deprives the brain of the ability to think logically and remember. In addition the promotion of the Medical Industry with its drugs and vaccines has also affected the physical and mental health of every recipient. As someone who has studied health for a lifetime (65 years), i am aware that the matter in drugs and vaccines destroy the glands in the brain, which create the ability to think, logic and memory, too. An important one, the pineal gland, which is thought to be the seat of consciousness; our knowingness of what is right or wrong has been destroyed. In the past people did not go to medical doctors regularly...but in the 1950s there was a well baby promotion to get people to take their children to doctors regularly. The 30s, 40s, 50s were not affluent, but with the advent of more money in society, drugs (legal and illegal) became more prevalent, along with alcohol. Our whole society changed radically in the 1960s.

JoAnn A. McClellan's avatar

If you'd like to look for a causes for the behavior we see today, HERE ARE THE FINDINGS OF TWO RESEARCHERS that present very plausible answers.

Psychological Problems now being attributed to the actual Covid19 Vaccines PLUS the psychological abuse people were subjected to during Covid - INCLUDING FEAR & ISOLATION.

Attributing the IRRATIONAL, OVER THE TOP BEHAVIOR we're seeing to DAMAGE DONE TO Common Sense, logical thought & Self Regulation - IS NOT an over the top judgement.

https://thefocalpoints.com/p/on-emotional-dysregulation

https://thefocalpoints.com/p/neuroinflammation-and-the-zombie

Barbara Charis's avatar

Checked out info. you sent. Thanks for sending.

After The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 took effect and the vaccine manufacturers received no liability for injuries and deaths...The number of vaccines went up from about 11 to over 70...with their toxic matter being injected into every child in the educational system... The vaccine industry didn't have to pay for advertising, while its revenue accelerated. Two items alone, aluminum sulfate and thimerosal (mercury) cause brain damage.. When I read the list of items in childhood vaccines, i questioned the sanity of those who would inject them into our children. One of the books with this information was Vaccination is NOT Immunization by Dr. Tim O'Shea and the other was Forbidden Facts by Gavin de Becker. If parents saw the list and checked the items out, I wonder, if they would accept these injections?

carolyn kostopoulos's avatar

what kind of nation destroys it's children, which are the future, so that some drug companies can make money? you have to wonder

Barbara Charis's avatar

I question the sanity of those who could put their love of money and power ..above all else.

Summit Male Medical's avatar

It's on purpose, the powers that be (call them deep state, elite, etc) hate us and want to depopulate. They say it, it's not a secret. People are just asleep to it. They are ramping up the plan.

Michael Bunte's avatar

I agree. Consider also (I'm sure you have) what fluoride has done to IQ and the pineal gland. It's tragic when bad science ruins people and their potential. Ruining individuals, societies, and countries. Insidious evil.

JoAnn A. McClellan's avatar

Yes, I am aware of all of this. I have files of information on the vaccine issue and post it regularly as the subject becomes a flash point in the news.

I often wonder, would we need to spend so much money on Special Education if for the last 30 years the number of children on the Autism spectrum has not increased so dramatically......and YES, I believe it's bc of the number of childhood vaccine given in a SHORT PERIOD OF TIME during a period of accelerated brain development in a child.

Following the passage of that 1986 Law, ALSO REQUIRED WAS THE GOVERNMENT TO CREATE A PERMANENT TASK FORCE on Safer Childhood Vaccines to ensure that vaccines given to kids are safe, and to make recommendations for more ways to improve safety.

The Task Force was required to formally report to Congress every two years.

Its last report was issued in 1998, after which, for reasons that are unclear (wink, wink), the legally required group went “defunct.”

Barbara Charis's avatar

The testing never used a saline solution either. Another vaccine or adjuvant was used. The testing was bogus.

carolyn kostopoulos's avatar

I'm sure we could cut back or eliminate the special ed budget

TRM's avatar

The citizens are not insane. They are cowards. 80% cave in to peer pressure, 90% can't question authority and 90% become power trippers when given authority over others.

https://i.postimg.cc/KzpyfJDm/VENN-3-Asch-Milgram-Stanford-Full.png

The leaders push to see how far then pause, fake a bit of a rewind, and then continue. Since 90% of the population can't question authority they just continually go along with it.

JoAnn A. McClellan's avatar

Thank you for proving my point. The INSANITY STARTS WITH THE CITIZENS. And our so called “leadership” reflect it back to us….AND THE SANE among us still possessed of common sense and logical thinking, just stand here, shaking our heads in utter disbelief.

TRM's avatar

But that's not insanity. Insane people don't know what they are doing is wrong. "Going along to get along even when you know it's wrong" is not insane behavior. It is cowardice. Acquiescing with their silence while evil is committed is not insane. It is gutless cowardice.

JoAnn A. McClellan's avatar

You do know there are differences between the medical definition of insanity, the legal definition of insanity and the way we often use it in daily language - Right?

TRM's avatar

Yes. Please point me at the one that fits people's behaviour. The VENN diagram explains it perfectly (HT to bad catitude who came up with it) and nowhere in it is insanity. Cowardice and power tripping. Not insanity.

JoAnn A. McClellan's avatar

It appears my comment went over you head....I apologize, but I'm not planing to explain it to you further.

carolyn kostopoulos's avatar

so true. I am so often distressed by the pompous arrogant comments left by idiotic Americans- we think we are better than everyone else when it seems to me that we are worse

dave's avatar

The Fabian society set out in 1884 to capture all of the world’s institutions and overthrow the world to establish their own. They’ve mostly succeeded. It is their mission statement. All of the world leaders are down with it. They wish to be kings of the world and bring peace through hegemony.

It’s not a cabal with a leadership structure, but rather a cult. Their word, not mine.

JoAnn A. McClellan's avatar

Yes, below is an excellent review of the Fabian Society and what they've done, and how they've been manipulating just about everything.

I see Freedoms, Rights & especially Self Determination, things that feed our ability to think critically, logically, make our own decisions & choices as foundational to our mental & physical health - the Fabian Society has been working to erase those things by restructuring society and limiting the choices & ideas individual will be allowed in order to conform to their Plan and TOO MANY SEEM WILLING TO FALL IN LINE

https://www.malone.news/p/the-fabian-society

Jeck's avatar

I disagree with your premise.

Barbara West's avatar

Seeing as how every leader started out as a citizen, this sounds about right!

Joewrite's avatar

I agree. Yet, we the people can't make sane decisions with the dishonesty of our electorate, the media, journalists, corporations, etc.

Penelope Pnortney's avatar

I don't think the video trailer is over-the-top at all, it perfectly captures what we've experienced over the past 25 years. The FUD triggers (fear, uncertainty, doubt) have been relentless, only the identity of the threat we're supposed to fear has changed. It's all designed to cultivate the learned helplessness that makes people easier to control.

URsomoney's avatar

In fact it could’ve included a lot more. How about adding “they hate us because of our freedom”- do you remember that crap we didn’t even question?!

Yes the public has a mind virus - inject fear into the psyche & you can control them. Nuclear weapons & pandemics (both which don’t exist) have been major weapons of fear wielded to scare the crap out of a non critical thinking public (add the dumbing down of education & marijuana legalization to assure compliance).

Wayne Bonin's avatar

Yes, Bush stating "they hate us for our freedom", followed by an explanation about the Pulse nightclub shooter that kill 49 people because we were over on the other side of the planet killing them, and how the FBI promoted the idea that he killed them because they were gay when he didn't have a clue about that. He even asked a bouncer where all the women were.

Penelope Pnortney's avatar

Another golden oldie that's been trotted out again recently is "we need to fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here."

The question I haven't found an answer to is what makes a skeptic? I didn't start out that way but now I'm 100%. I can't pinpoint exactly when that changed but it probably was a gradual transition over the past 25 years. The interesting thing to me is that they used to be a whole lot better at lying, now it's so blatantly obvious it's a wonder anyone believes anything they say. Sadly, many do.

URsomoney's avatar

I don’t know if they were better at lying or it’s because they just keep recycling the same lies & we’ve noticed. They also can’t control the narrative like they used to when there were only a few news outlets.

Brian Finney's avatar

No problem with the content - frame change is too fast for me, perhaps 2 secs longer; maybe then need to edit to keep to 5 minutes

JoyceM's avatar

Very good. I recognized ALL the clips; they were disturbing at the time, and disturbing still. The clip of Tower 7 being "foretold" that it had fallen just before it fell should be pushed and pushed. We've been lied to and brainwashed, and only in the last few years have most of us become awakened.

TiredCitizen's avatar

My only thing with the clip is that is was played faster which makes it appear fake.

Rick Hardt's avatar

Excellent John! Not at all over the top, as it’s the way it’s been and the way it is — until we change it.

Brandon is not your bro's avatar

….. and June 5, 1968 RFK murdered . I wonder if Lennon gave that interview based on what happened the day before.

The BarefootHealer's avatar

Definitely too many clips within the trailef. Its disjointed and the overall thread message is lost in the noise. If the jarring, disjointed effect is intentional and for artistic purposes, i would rethink and edit to yhe more powerful of clips. The message is the most powerful part and its list in the "kitchen sink" visual noise. It needs to be susscinct, clear, and impactful, and in my experience achieving that effect, is usually done in the magic of what you take away. Less is more.

Shaun's avatar

Psyopomania. Well done on the playbook right out of Chatham house.

Stone's avatar

The cuts are far too fast for me, I can't follow it at all. It's just flashing stuff. If your audience is squirrels on crack, then, perfect.

Alan's avatar

I agree. It took a while for my mind to figure out the direction and then keep up. Maybe it's my age. I'm 73.

Jason's avatar

“To know who rules over you, simply look at who it is illegal to criticize”

There is only one correct answer

grahamlyons's avatar

The world is run by a sort of large Family...all related. Pretty well everyone famous is a member. They trace their bloodlines back to ancient times. "Fear" is one of their favourite means of controlling the despised masses. Governments are riddled with these individuals.

Lately I have been working my way through the world events that Miles Mathis has exposed with his thorough research. It is astonishing, and highly recommended:

www.mileswmathis.com

Click on Writings, then Best of the Fake Events Essays of Miles Mathis. It is a real eye opener. John Lennon was "retired" from "the world stage" at "the right time".

Proberta's avatar

I LOVE Miles Mathis!!!

Great researcher, great dot-connector, and wonderful writer!

grahamlyons's avatar

A genius, I think.

TRM's avatar

Miles Mathis is great creative writing and I think it is more of a group thing not just one person. Some of what he says is based on facts (Laurel Canyon music scene) but he speculates a lot. Fun to read but don't take it too seriously.

grahamlyons's avatar

He is a very good artist!

Ranch's avatar

100% agree. I'm a mathis man for sure.

grahamlyons's avatar

Good onya, Ranch. I am still working my way through his faked events list. On MY list for today is Princess Diana, Natalie Wood, Buddy Holly et al, Amelia Earhart, Shakespeare & The Titanic. Several of these I know about already.

Deb's avatar

The clips run by way too Fast to even process what is being shown.

Debra Nolasco's avatar

As far as the trailer for "Mind Viruses", I also found it to be sensory overload. Too many disturbing images coming at you. By far, the most disturbing for me were seeing Biden, Greta Thunberg, & Bill Gates. It was an immediate recoil - each of them so thoroughly despicable.

Hannah's avatar

Milk is racist was my fave

TRM's avatar

But what about chocolate milk? Is that reverse racist? LOL.

Tara Townsend's avatar

Thought provoking. Terrifying.

Richard Whitney's avatar

I agree with those who say that it's not the trailer that's over the top -- it's the phenomena that the trailer accurately summarizes that is over the top. I think the trailer is captivating and effective.

David 1260's avatar

I have a film degree. The trailer wouldn't enlighten me as to the presence of a mind virus if I hadn't spent the last six years deprogramming myself. I agree with the criticism that the images, especially when presented by fast cuts, are overwhelming.

The task of the book, I presume, is to support the development of an objectivity that is able to notice the conscious efforts to manipulate. I have long thought that the filmic device of the fast cut inherently alienates us from the inner peace needed to closely observe and commune with the world around us.

YorktownOct19@protonmail.com's avatar

I have been processing this stuff for years. I was born IN, and grew up IN, DC. My life has been filled with trauma, personal and stuff like the assassination of JFK, the riots in DC following the assassination of Martin Kuther King Jr, etcetcetc.

My term for what is going on is EVIL. It's not insane, lunatic, ridiculous, mistaken, crazy, ludicrous...It is EVIL. This nation has turned its back on God like never before in our history. That is the source of the problem. Where there is a vacuum, something always fills it. These are some of the things filling it. Another one of the evils filling the void is Islam. After losing 9-11-1565 (Malta) after losing 9-11-1683 (Vienna) and after losing 9-11-1697 (Battle of Zenta) they won one on 9-11-2001.

Hilary Butler's avatar

Bingo. And Evil is a choice. It's not an implanted mind virus. It is something every individual has to chose to think about, mull over, plan on, and then and then act on.

Psalm 2: 1 =2 Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsil together, against the lord, and against his anointed saying, "let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us!"

.... because those cords are the only moral restraints that contain horrific atrocities, and what we are seeing now, is the outworking of that....

Anyone turning their back on God is destined to walk a hard path. You are so correct....