Thanks for all you're doing Betsy with the remarkable work of the FLCCC. You are all heros in my book. I can only imagine the upset you feel, especially when considering the position of your fellow news casters. It's morally and ethically reprehensible. There is no excuse for their failure to do a deep dive into the real science.
I'm reminded of an early post by Michael Capuzzo, a fellow journalist/author, who wrote in the early days of the pandemic:
"We live in a remarkable media age where a positive story on CNN, perhaps more so than a peer review in The New England Journal of Medicine, will instantly encourage doctors in two hundred countries to use a perfectly safe and legal drug and save humanity. I’ve called on my fellow journalists, including former colleagues and friends at The Washington Post and The New York Times, to open their hearts and minds to legitimate, unreported doctors and therapies and write about all sides of the ivermectin story, like journalists always have.
I’m urging my colleagues to help. For the first time in the nearly six centuries since Gutenberg spawned Google, journalists have a chance to not merely change the course of history or mirror horrific events, but to save the world." If only a handful of honest journalists took his message to heart.
Totally agree with you Michelle. I have experienced the same issues with most of the "educated". I have come to realize that the smart, educated professionals are more entrenched in their beliefs than others. Whenever I get into a cab anywhere in the world, I find 90% of the drivers are awake. I've realized that the educated professionals have had a lifelong history of trusting authority ( myself included until now), many of them spend years and lots of $ to become more educated, and then they themselves become the authority. It is nearly impossible for them to let that go. It is no longer about following information or critical thinking, it literally becomes a religion. Getting someone to change their religion is damn near impossible.
Thanks for validated my experience about the most educated members of our society. Dr. Pierre Kory has shared his experience, going through medical, and how indoctrinated one becomes during that process. Are young doctors taught how to evaluate research critically? No they're not. Not even one class. Nutrition was only given a few hours of instruction. Instead they're told that all they have to do is trust in our public health authorities to share the truth with them. Today, with the threat of losing one's reputation and medical license for even questioning any information from "trusted sources" , physicians are frightened into compliance.
Your comparison to religion is also spot on. Such deeply held belief are unshakable....until the worst happens to them. My husband lost his older brother to drugs when he was 18. His faith in God was shattered. How could a loving God allow this innocent young man to die? Despite the tragedies that he witnessed almost daily around the globe and in the U.S., it took a personal loss for him to question his faith. The same appears to be true for those who took the vaccine and then experienced a profound side effect or lost a close family member or friend. When it hits us personally, that's the opportunity to open ones eyes to the reality of what had been ignored previously.
Thank you Michelle for, once again, cogently pointing out to us the continuing absurdities within which we now live. The psychological and cultural forces now operating on so many levels throughout the world are causing greater and greater entrenchment into the diverse political and cultural perspectives that separate and isolate us more and more. The ability and opportunity to have open and straightforward discussions, with the possibility of having ones perspective shift, is long gone due to the extreme entrenchment of beliefs. One of the most influential books ever written about methods for persuading people - "Influence - The Psychology of Persuasion" by Robert Cialdini was (and maybe in some respects still is) the go to book to help understand how best to communicate with people to help shift perspectives. Unfortunately, however, the continued migration (psychological, emotional and physical) into discreet and entrenched silos of psychological, emotional, political and cultural influence, has rendered Cialdini's strategies less and less effective. Maybe, that is why we are seeing the various power groups using more and more weaponized versions of those strategies.
Thanks for this and your efforts to get Turtles All the Way Down into your library. At least you raised some consciousness. I am 99% Ashkenazi, 1% Baltic. I marched in the RFK, Jr contingent of the July 4 parade and got booed. Of course I experienced all the same things you did but found a new network of friends in DC & Phila. My diagnosis - political hysteria.
A lot of Trump.supporters are flirting with the idea of jumping ship and voting for RFK Jr. They like his position on the covid shots and they also like that he's not a Bush democrat warmonger and pro-censorship like most of the other Dems. What turns some of them off is they think he's a climate nut and wants to roll back the industrial revolution. I haven't seen any evidencethat he is. He's moderate on climate and he needs to be if he's serious about winning.
I heard some democrats say that Kennedy wasn't really interested in being president. His agenda was simply to take away potential Biden votes to insure the election for Trump. Talk about crazy! Ultimately will any candidate hold every single issue that aligns with our own? I don't think so. People need to select the candidate whom they trust and whose values are most aligned with their own. For me, Kennedy is an easy choice.
He, along with Cornel West will certainly take away votes of old style anti-authoritarian Democrats who dislike the new Democratic right wing authoritarianism, the tyranny of vaccine mandates, censorship of opposing views and the waging of forever wars.
I agree that Kennedy will appeal to old school liberal Democrats, of which I am one.
I'd like to take this opportunity to point my readers in the direction of Kennedy's talk this evening:
WHAT: RFK Jr. to Host Virtual Roundtable on Revitalizing Our Food, Farms, and Soil: The Farmers Speak Aug. 3 at 8 p.m. ET
WHEN: August 03, 2023 at 8:00pm
WHERE: Livestream
Can you imagine for a moment the impact this could have on the growing concerns about food insecurity, how pesticides are killing bees and harming our children, not only here but around the globe. Imagine if governments invested in small organic farmers rather than large agro businesses which have damaged our soil and food.
Trump is popular because he is perceived as an outsider who might have had the money and power to end the criminal cabal that is the US Government. People are willing to ignore his narcissism for that broader goal. Kennedy has the same goal.
Kennedy has the knowledge and cognitive abilities to actually make it happen. He's also not a narcissist. I just watched an interview with Dr. Mark Hyman, the best selling author of 11 health related books and functional medicine physician. He created the Functional Medicine department at the Cleveland Clinic. He stated that Kennedy is a man of integrity who cares about the environment and the welfare of people. He said that Kennedy was NOT an anti vaxxer. When people with a reputation like his come out publicly to support Kennedy, I believe that will be a game changer.
Thank you Elle. Having been a clinical psychologist for decades, I struggle to understand the behavior of the masses. It's the "smart" people that I'm most confused by. I understand that during the early days of Covid, such profound fear disabled our ability to think clearly. We instead relied upon our trusted news sources to inform us of what was happening. Once the reality was revealed that the vaccines did not in fact prevent infection and transmission, I honestly believed that people would finally wake up and see the propaganda and manipulation they had been exposed to. As we know, that hasn't happened. People continue to believe the misinformation being spoon fed to them by MSM and our government. I wish I had the answers. I hold out hope that one day, someone smarter than me will put forth an explanation that truly explains everything. Hopefully they'll also figure out how to wake up the masses. As Kennedy has said, if the American people have an appetite for the truth, I will be the next president of the United States of America. From his lips......!
"Once the reality was revealed that the vaccines did not in fact prevent infection and transmission, I honestly believed that people would finally wake up and see the propaganda and manipulation they had been exposed to."
I just read a thread on a liberal dem website about Covid not being over and most of the comments were about how even though they were ‘jabbed to the max' they are either now sick or they have just gotten over their 4th or 5th round of the Rona. But they are all looking forward to getting the newest jab once it comes out. And of course many of them said the line…"thank gawd I am vaccinated or it would have been much worse.
As for the Mueller report I suggest that you read the Durham report if you haven’t already because it shows that Hillary, Obama and Brennan and others made up the accusations against Trump being beholden to Putin after Wikileaks released the dem and Hillary’s emails that showed how they rigged the primary against Bernie. And my opinion is that so many people would have questioned the rushed vaccines if they hadn’t had their brains twisted with 4 years of Russia Russia Russia. Nor would my anti war friends be supporting Ukraine because they believed that the Russia gate saga was real. That was propaganda on steroids just like the Rona psyops was. The Durham report proves that.
I have to agree that Americans are being "badly misled" and that it appears to be working. The loss of our mainstream media as investigators of truth are the primary cause in my opinion. Once they joined the Trusted New Initiative, all honest reporting was lost. Without a free news media, we are left without critical information which would have shifted our views about so many things.
Excellent piece, Michelle. I continually get the same response from my many liberal friends — many of them in the news business. It’s heartbreaking.
Thanks for all you're doing Betsy with the remarkable work of the FLCCC. You are all heros in my book. I can only imagine the upset you feel, especially when considering the position of your fellow news casters. It's morally and ethically reprehensible. There is no excuse for their failure to do a deep dive into the real science.
I'm reminded of an early post by Michael Capuzzo, a fellow journalist/author, who wrote in the early days of the pandemic:
"We live in a remarkable media age where a positive story on CNN, perhaps more so than a peer review in The New England Journal of Medicine, will instantly encourage doctors in two hundred countries to use a perfectly safe and legal drug and save humanity. I’ve called on my fellow journalists, including former colleagues and friends at The Washington Post and The New York Times, to open their hearts and minds to legitimate, unreported doctors and therapies and write about all sides of the ivermectin story, like journalists always have.
I’m urging my colleagues to help. For the first time in the nearly six centuries since Gutenberg spawned Google, journalists have a chance to not merely change the course of history or mirror horrific events, but to save the world." If only a handful of honest journalists took his message to heart.
Totally agree with you Michelle. I have experienced the same issues with most of the "educated". I have come to realize that the smart, educated professionals are more entrenched in their beliefs than others. Whenever I get into a cab anywhere in the world, I find 90% of the drivers are awake. I've realized that the educated professionals have had a lifelong history of trusting authority ( myself included until now), many of them spend years and lots of $ to become more educated, and then they themselves become the authority. It is nearly impossible for them to let that go. It is no longer about following information or critical thinking, it literally becomes a religion. Getting someone to change their religion is damn near impossible.
Thanks for validated my experience about the most educated members of our society. Dr. Pierre Kory has shared his experience, going through medical, and how indoctrinated one becomes during that process. Are young doctors taught how to evaluate research critically? No they're not. Not even one class. Nutrition was only given a few hours of instruction. Instead they're told that all they have to do is trust in our public health authorities to share the truth with them. Today, with the threat of losing one's reputation and medical license for even questioning any information from "trusted sources" , physicians are frightened into compliance.
Your comparison to religion is also spot on. Such deeply held belief are unshakable....until the worst happens to them. My husband lost his older brother to drugs when he was 18. His faith in God was shattered. How could a loving God allow this innocent young man to die? Despite the tragedies that he witnessed almost daily around the globe and in the U.S., it took a personal loss for him to question his faith. The same appears to be true for those who took the vaccine and then experienced a profound side effect or lost a close family member or friend. When it hits us personally, that's the opportunity to open ones eyes to the reality of what had been ignored previously.
Thank you Michelle for, once again, cogently pointing out to us the continuing absurdities within which we now live. The psychological and cultural forces now operating on so many levels throughout the world are causing greater and greater entrenchment into the diverse political and cultural perspectives that separate and isolate us more and more. The ability and opportunity to have open and straightforward discussions, with the possibility of having ones perspective shift, is long gone due to the extreme entrenchment of beliefs. One of the most influential books ever written about methods for persuading people - "Influence - The Psychology of Persuasion" by Robert Cialdini was (and maybe in some respects still is) the go to book to help understand how best to communicate with people to help shift perspectives. Unfortunately, however, the continued migration (psychological, emotional and physical) into discreet and entrenched silos of psychological, emotional, political and cultural influence, has rendered Cialdini's strategies less and less effective. Maybe, that is why we are seeing the various power groups using more and more weaponized versions of those strategies.
I would have to agree with your conclusions.
Thanks for this and your efforts to get Turtles All the Way Down into your library. At least you raised some consciousness. I am 99% Ashkenazi, 1% Baltic. I marched in the RFK, Jr contingent of the July 4 parade and got booed. Of course I experienced all the same things you did but found a new network of friends in DC & Phila. My diagnosis - political hysteria.
A lot of Trump.supporters are flirting with the idea of jumping ship and voting for RFK Jr. They like his position on the covid shots and they also like that he's not a Bush democrat warmonger and pro-censorship like most of the other Dems. What turns some of them off is they think he's a climate nut and wants to roll back the industrial revolution. I haven't seen any evidencethat he is. He's moderate on climate and he needs to be if he's serious about winning.
I heard some democrats say that Kennedy wasn't really interested in being president. His agenda was simply to take away potential Biden votes to insure the election for Trump. Talk about crazy! Ultimately will any candidate hold every single issue that aligns with our own? I don't think so. People need to select the candidate whom they trust and whose values are most aligned with their own. For me, Kennedy is an easy choice.
He, along with Cornel West will certainly take away votes of old style anti-authoritarian Democrats who dislike the new Democratic right wing authoritarianism, the tyranny of vaccine mandates, censorship of opposing views and the waging of forever wars.
I agree that Kennedy will appeal to old school liberal Democrats, of which I am one.
I'd like to take this opportunity to point my readers in the direction of Kennedy's talk this evening:
WHAT: RFK Jr. to Host Virtual Roundtable on Revitalizing Our Food, Farms, and Soil: The Farmers Speak Aug. 3 at 8 p.m. ET
WHEN: August 03, 2023 at 8:00pm
WHERE: Livestream
Can you imagine for a moment the impact this could have on the growing concerns about food insecurity, how pesticides are killing bees and harming our children, not only here but around the globe. Imagine if governments invested in small organic farmers rather than large agro businesses which have damaged our soil and food.
Here's the link for tonight's show.
https://rumble.com/v34c6o5-revitalizing-our-food-farms-and-soil-the-farmers-speak.html
Trump is popular because he is perceived as an outsider who might have had the money and power to end the criminal cabal that is the US Government. People are willing to ignore his narcissism for that broader goal. Kennedy has the same goal.
Kennedy has the knowledge and cognitive abilities to actually make it happen. He's also not a narcissist. I just watched an interview with Dr. Mark Hyman, the best selling author of 11 health related books and functional medicine physician. He created the Functional Medicine department at the Cleveland Clinic. He stated that Kennedy is a man of integrity who cares about the environment and the welfare of people. He said that Kennedy was NOT an anti vaxxer. When people with a reputation like his come out publicly to support Kennedy, I believe that will be a game changer.
Thanks for sharing this link. Interesting....
Thank you Elle. Having been a clinical psychologist for decades, I struggle to understand the behavior of the masses. It's the "smart" people that I'm most confused by. I understand that during the early days of Covid, such profound fear disabled our ability to think clearly. We instead relied upon our trusted news sources to inform us of what was happening. Once the reality was revealed that the vaccines did not in fact prevent infection and transmission, I honestly believed that people would finally wake up and see the propaganda and manipulation they had been exposed to. As we know, that hasn't happened. People continue to believe the misinformation being spoon fed to them by MSM and our government. I wish I had the answers. I hold out hope that one day, someone smarter than me will put forth an explanation that truly explains everything. Hopefully they'll also figure out how to wake up the masses. As Kennedy has said, if the American people have an appetite for the truth, I will be the next president of the United States of America. From his lips......!
Yes I hope he is. You're doing a fabulous job articulating all this Michelle! Your voice is powerful and making a difference
Thanks for your continuing support Lyla.
"Once the reality was revealed that the vaccines did not in fact prevent infection and transmission, I honestly believed that people would finally wake up and see the propaganda and manipulation they had been exposed to."
I just read a thread on a liberal dem website about Covid not being over and most of the comments were about how even though they were ‘jabbed to the max' they are either now sick or they have just gotten over their 4th or 5th round of the Rona. But they are all looking forward to getting the newest jab once it comes out. And of course many of them said the line…"thank gawd I am vaccinated or it would have been much worse.
As for the Mueller report I suggest that you read the Durham report if you haven’t already because it shows that Hillary, Obama and Brennan and others made up the accusations against Trump being beholden to Putin after Wikileaks released the dem and Hillary’s emails that showed how they rigged the primary against Bernie. And my opinion is that so many people would have questioned the rushed vaccines if they hadn’t had their brains twisted with 4 years of Russia Russia Russia. Nor would my anti war friends be supporting Ukraine because they believed that the Russia gate saga was real. That was propaganda on steroids just like the Rona psyops was. The Durham report proves that.
Thanks for sharing your views Sam. I so glad you feel comfortable doing so.
I have to agree that Americans are being "badly misled" and that it appears to be working. The loss of our mainstream media as investigators of truth are the primary cause in my opinion. Once they joined the Trusted New Initiative, all honest reporting was lost. Without a free news media, we are left without critical information which would have shifted our views about so many things.
Well said! I agree with you and Michelle! Thank you both for articulating it so well