By Peggy Ryan
\nAmerican Thinker<\/p>\n
America is on the verge of sanctioning a socialist takeover of the greatest government ever established on the face of the Earth.<\/p>\n
What are we doing about it?\u00a0\u00a0Are we in solidarity with our president, or are we tacitly admitting defeat in the midst of the battle?\u00a0\u00a0Are conservatives who criticize the president’s legal team, as Rush Limbaugh did, helping the president or the insurgents?\u00a0\u00a0Are those who say Georgia is now our only hope, the Senate our last chance, encouraging patriots or the enemy?\u00a0\u00a0The subliminal message is that we’ve already lost the White House, so the Senate is all we have left.<\/p>\n
Why do so many feel defeated in the middle of the fight?\u00a0\u00a0For years, Americans have been beaten down, victims of emotional and psychological abuse by media.\u00a0\u00a0With continuous abuse, many succumb to learned helplessness<\/a>, where an individual who “continuously faces a negative, uncontrollable situation stops trying to change [his] circumstances.”\u00a0\u00a0In other words, they give up.<\/p>\n The media’s abuse is wide-ranging, and their weapon of choice is gaslighting.\u00a0\u00a0They tell us we can’t believe our own eyes.\u00a0\u00a0Hillary<\/a> did nothing wrong; there was no RussiaGate<\/a> conspiracy to remove the president.\u00a0\u00a0Don’t believe stories of Biden<\/a> using his son for money-laundering and kickbacks \u2014 not even if you’ve watched the video<\/a> of Biden demanding a quid pro quo from Ukraine.<\/p>\n They gaslight us with polls to reinforce the coming election fraud.\u00a0\u00a0Polls are not only wrong, but ridiculous \u2014 Hillary a 15-point\u00a0\u00a0lead<\/a>, Biden 15 points again<\/a>, yet Trump trounced Hillary and, without fraud, Biden.\u00a0\u00a0They use polls to tell us what to think: “the majority of Americans don’t believe there was voter fraud”; therefore, neither should we.<\/p>\n One form of gaslighting, projection, is why we’re screaming at our<\/a> TV’s, “That’s what they <\/em>do.”\u00a0\u00a0The president’s been accused of interfering<\/a> in an election, colluding<\/a> with Russia, and extorting<\/a> Ukraine, all crimes of the left.<\/p>\n These daily beatings inevitably take the fight out of Trump-supporters.\u00a0\u00a0Learned helplessness leads to a passive response to tyranny, a reluctance to actively engage the enemy.\u00a0\u00a0Add a cacophony of voices telling us to stand down:<\/p>\n The overall message is to surrender.\u00a0\u00a0But we don’t need to stand down, America; we need to step up.\u00a0\u00a0We have to start with these drunk-on-power governors.\u00a0\u00a0They have no right to issue, much less enforce unconstitutional orders.\u00a0\u00a0And we don’t need to wait on courts to set us free.\u00a0\u00a0It’s already done with the Constitution and ruled on by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\n