You're absolutely right, Mike. What started as local political tactics—like Alinsky’s rules—have now morphed into a global blame-and-shame game.
People claim victimhood to gain power, and once they have it, they need someone new to blame. So the cycle never ends. Yesterday’s “hero” becomes today’s “villain” the moment they step out of line.
The sad part? While everyone’s busy canceling each other, the real manipulators—the ones in lab coats, boardrooms, and editorial rooms—slip away unnoticed. They gaslight the public, distort facts, and then hide while we yell at each other.
It’s not just culture war anymore. It’s a system designed to keep people confused, divided, and easy to control.
That is a classic covert narcissistic pity ploy tactic….
it’s how they gain sympathy and power and reel in victims …
These people are predators
Plain and simple
Looking for the vulnerable
To control and … harm
And the only way they keep their victims ensnared … is to manufacture constant chaos and keep people confused and off balance
Normal people… don’t understand the hot/cold behavior and the longer the abuse happens…. The less likely the victims are of having the mental capability /ability to break free …
Absolutely nailed it. What you’ve described is textbook narcissistic manipulation scaled up to societal levels. The “covert pity ploy” has become a political weapon — and the more you expose it, the more you're accused of cruelty or intolerance. That’s part of the trap.
The manufactured chaos is essential. It’s not a side effect — it’s the strategy. Keep the masses emotionally whiplashed, unsure of what's real, and they'll cling to whatever authority offers "clarity" — even if it's the same one causing the confusion.
And you're right: normal people don’t operate like this, so they keep trying to rationalize irrational behavior… until their reality is too warped to recognize the abuse anymore.
It’s a psychological hostage situation — with the gaslight always burning.
Anyone who has ever been an abusive relationship with a narcissist- can tell you -this is the exact strategy they all employ.
They gaslight you
So you no longer trust your own God given discernment
And the sickest part of all of it
Is while they’re actually harming you… they also convince you- they are the only ones who can keep you safe!
Which is exactly what the whole covid debacle did
Told people lies
But then convinced people the government was the only thing standing between them and certain death!
They made people Vulnerable to indoctrination and coercion
Believe the government was keeping them safe.
It’s classic narcissistic abuse- deployed by the government and the media
And the only way victims ever escape this type of psychological abuse is to go ‘no contact’. Stop believing their lies.
Turn it all off.
It’s psychological abuse … look around
your own room- your own house… your own community…
and if everything is okay…
you are okay.
Government and media needs to convince people we are in constant danger- and the greatest TOOL narcissists use to control you- is CHAOS.
But it’s never organic chaos… it’s chaos they’ve created and manufactured
- with the sole purpose of keeping you afraid and compliant and under their
control.
You’re being manipulated.
And controlled …
Free yourselves… by just going ‘no contact’
Refuse to react to their nonsense!
Just a few blocks eh? I thought Block Lives Matter! :)
Relating Saul Alinsky's 13 Rules for Radicals to the Gaslight is where things get
profoundly concerning.
Me too/woke leads to ghost/cancel. 'Victims' need 'villians.'
The weeds need the wheat.
This is happening on a near global scale.
You're absolutely right, Mike. What started as local political tactics—like Alinsky’s rules—have now morphed into a global blame-and-shame game.
People claim victimhood to gain power, and once they have it, they need someone new to blame. So the cycle never ends. Yesterday’s “hero” becomes today’s “villain” the moment they step out of line.
The sad part? While everyone’s busy canceling each other, the real manipulators—the ones in lab coats, boardrooms, and editorial rooms—slip away unnoticed. They gaslight the public, distort facts, and then hide while we yell at each other.
It’s not just culture war anymore. It’s a system designed to keep people confused, divided, and easy to control.
That is a classic covert narcissistic pity ploy tactic….
it’s how they gain sympathy and power and reel in victims …
These people are predators
Plain and simple
Looking for the vulnerable
To control and … harm
And the only way they keep their victims ensnared … is to manufacture constant chaos and keep people confused and off balance
Normal people… don’t understand the hot/cold behavior and the longer the abuse happens…. The less likely the victims are of having the mental capability /ability to break free …
Absolutely nailed it. What you’ve described is textbook narcissistic manipulation scaled up to societal levels. The “covert pity ploy” has become a political weapon — and the more you expose it, the more you're accused of cruelty or intolerance. That’s part of the trap.
The manufactured chaos is essential. It’s not a side effect — it’s the strategy. Keep the masses emotionally whiplashed, unsure of what's real, and they'll cling to whatever authority offers "clarity" — even if it's the same one causing the confusion.
And you're right: normal people don’t operate like this, so they keep trying to rationalize irrational behavior… until their reality is too warped to recognize the abuse anymore.
It’s a psychological hostage situation — with the gaslight always burning.
Great write-up of this underlying theme that's pervasive in our daily lives. I wished it would stop but I'm not holding my breath that it will.
It won’t stop
Narcissistic predators don’t stop.
Victims free themselves from this type of abuse by walking away- and not engaging anymore.
And not allowing yourself to be harmed anymore …
Great run down of the communist magic show.
Read the book "Rape of the Mind" and a lot if this will make sense.
Here is a free link to this essential book:
https://open.substack.com/pub/soberchristiangentlemanpodcast/p/fyi-book-reading-the-rape-of-the?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=31s3eo