All citizens are being manipulated.

Highlights from article I'll link to later in this thread:

"impact of being manipulated
Having another person take, or try to take, your freedom by retaliation, projection, or gaslighting (abusive behavior that makes you question your sanity)

2) "negative impact on you — physically, emotionally, spiritually. You may develop:

Increased mental stress, physical fatigue

Depression or anxiety

Compromised self-confidence, lead you to doubt yourself

Threatened sense of reality, make you think you’re going crazy...

3) "Feelings of helplessness or shame.
Unhealthy, self-soothing behaviors to deal with stress and fatigue."

"Signs you’re being manipulated
“Emotional manipulators are typically very skillful,” writes Travis Bradberry, Ph.D. “They start out with subtle manipulation and

4) "raise the stakes over time, so slowly that you don’t even realize it’s happening.” So, what should you watch for? Bradberry suggests nine signs of an emotional manipulator:

They undermine your faith in your grasp of reality.
Their actions don’t match their words...

5) "They are experts at doling out guilt.
They claim the role of the victim.
They are too much, too soon.
They are an emotional black hole.
They eagerly agree to help — and maybe even volunteer — then act like a martyr.
They always one-up you...

6) They know all your buttons and don’t hesitate to push them."

Matthew 10:16 "I am sending you out like sheep surrounded by wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves."

7) Here is the article I was quoting from. It's one of many quality articles about the effects of manipulative people and how the abuse can take its toll.
ALL citizens are being manipulated- the level of abuse ranges, depending on your situation. https://www.focusonthefamily.com/get-help/how-to-deal-with-manipulative-people/

8) We will be dealing with the long term effects of manipulation for many years to come. We haven't even begun to heal because the abuse continues.

When we are freed, we'll then see the PTSD from masking of children and others who are vulnerable to tactics experienced as terror.

9) The most difficult issues may be these:

- the effects of mass hypnosis (convincing thousands of people of things that are simply not true)... a psychotic break from reality

- the disruption, interference, and deception involving the grief process (denied closure via-

10) banned funerals, lies about official cause of death, denied being at bedside of loved one at/before the passing, and other obstruction to proper respect for the grief process)

These are Crimes Against Humanity, and they continue every day that this depraved "movie" plays out

11) Those with the gift of empathy, patience, insight, and healing will be greatly needed.

We need specialists in abuse recovery, and healing from psychological warfare.

/end thread/