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By now, savvy intercessors are well aware of the fact that the left is brainwashing people. According to Buck Sexton, a former CIA operative turned conservative talk show host, this brainwashing, scientifically known as “menticide” (the murder of the mind), is a very real threat.
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From Breitbart:
Psychological attacks are real, and the concept of menticide dates to a Dutch psychologist who studied how totalitarian governments control the thoughts of their populations. Joost Meerloo witnessed and studied the way Josef Stalin, Vladimir Lenin, and Mao Zedong used the insights from Pavlov’s experiments on dogs against people. His most famous work is called The Rape of the Mind.
“Joost was a trained psychiatrist and got involved with first the resistance and then the Allies in the debriefing of Nazi officials and members of the SS,” Sexton tells Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers on the most recent episode of The Drill Down. “He realized that something of a psychiatric pandemic had unfolded in Nazi Germany where you had these seemingly normal people willing to do the most heinous things, but also to believe obvious lies.”
Sexton has just published a new book, Manufacturing Delusion: How the Left Uses Brainwashing, Indoctrination, and Propaganda Against You that applies Meerloo’s insights to modern-day techniques used in China, Russia, North Korea, Cuba, and other totalitarian regimes. But the political left in the United States uses these techniques, too. Sexton talks about three specific areas – COVID, trans ideology, fear over climate change, and Black Live Matter-inspired “struggle sessions.”
According to Sexton, those who practice menticide use confusion and degradation in an attempt to “degrade your sense of reason.” Speaking to Schweizer and Eggers, he said, “If they can get you to affirm the lie, to mouth the preferred slogans no matter how absurd, they are debasing and degrading your own sense of reason, your own sense of your ability to make distinctions and come to reasonable conclusions.”
Sexton claims that people are motivated to go along with this confusion by fear of punishment and desires for inclusion and praise. Explaining the fear, Sexton claims that leftists “can’t lock you in a cell or beat you with truncheons, but they can take away your professorship or get you fired or block you from a job or from school.” And regarding the desires for inclusion and praise, Sexton explains that “people want to be civil rights heroes without actually doing anything heroic,” leading them to get swept up in “mob mentality.”
As a practical example of this brainwashing, Sexton highlights the issue of transgenderism. In particular, he highlights the language, as adherents of this ideology swapped out “gender transition” for “gender affirmation.” This constant emphasis on changing language to support delusions is, according to Sexton, the main “tell” of mind control efforts. He also cites phrases like “reproductive health care” and “climate change” as similar examples.
So how should we combat menticide? According to Sexton, the key is to avoid isolation and to have “trusted individuals … who are invested in you” in your life. And to the intercessors reading this right now, we hope you know that you are not alone! At IFA, we’ll always do our best provide you with the truth and nothing but the truth.
This brainwashing is a threat, but we know that we worship an almighty, omniscient God. Let’s pray for the mind of Christ, just as Paul wrote about in 1 Corinthians 2, and let’s pray for an end to the mind control strategies of the left!
How are you praying about menticide, brainwashing, and mind control? Share your prayers and scriptures below.
(Excerpt from Breitbart. Photo Credit: Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona on Unsplash)
