I think I figured something out about POTUS The real reason Trump says things to upset people and make them uncomfortable, but then does things that are objectively good for the country. They had to gauge where the dividing line is. The dividing line between those in the matrix and those who see past it. How many people fall into which camp. Those in the matrix are still under the brainwashing. If they weren't, then his words and style wouldn't matter to them when it comes down to brass tacks.  They'd see past it and understand what's going on. It's why some very smart people are still in it, some very smart people aren't in it, dumb people are both in and out of it, and people of all races and genders are either in or out. Because being in or out of the matrix has nothing to do with your intelligence level, gender, or race. It has to do with the level of effect that the trauma-based programming (more on this in a minute) has had and still has on a person. How would you determine the split between the two camps on a mass scale?  The easiest way is to force everyone to choose if they wish to remain in the matrix or escape it.  You make damn sure you divide them in that way.  That's what he's done. Not because he's an asshole.  But because they need to know those numbers so that they can calculate the scale and pace necessary to awaken the critical mass of people with revelation.  They've been measuring this the whole time I would think.  Social media data graphs make it fairly easy.  The election results - the real ones - are yet another indicator (and probably the one that counts most) of where we are in the process right now on a mass scale.  This portion is binary.  Doesn't get any simpler than that.  Add to it the tech that can measure attitudes even beyond the binary division and you get a spectrum, which is more granular.  There's your data set right there.  Now it's just a matter of analyzation and proper response to get the desired effect.  This in of itself isn't a new or profound concept.  Everyone from marketers to Intel agencies to political campaigns use this framework to varying degrees to certain ends.  What is new is that instead of being used to control people for evil or self serving reasons, the framework is being used to free them instead.  Stay with me here... Everyone has been subjected to an endless program of trauma based manipulation/brainwashing. World war 2.  Vietnam.  Kennedy.  9/11.  Afghanistan.  Iraq.  AIDS.  Coronavirus. Etc etc. From cradle to grave, we're subjected to witnessing these things, which is bad enough, but then the media/propaganda swings into action.  Pummeling us day and night with the messaging and programming.  And what is driven into our minds over and again?  Two main things: fear and anger.  Add to it the never ending gaslighting.   IE: "You didn't really see demolition charges going off on building 7.  That's crazy talk."   Or "Climate change will kill you unless you believe this specially selected line of BS and do what we say.  If you question it, you don't believe in science and deserve to be ridiculed."   "Oswald killed Kennedy alone and it was just an isolated lone wolf who got lucky." On and on and on... So, every single one of us has been traumatized and gaslit over many years so to then brainwash us.  Fear, anger, and the threat of ridicule/castigation used as a weapon of manipulation. Trauma creates dissociation of the psyche.  Obviously, severe trauma creates more severe dissociation.  Which is basically the ability for you to detach from reality, tell yourself that you didn't really see what you just saw, and then convince yourself not to believe your lying eyes.  What we're talking about here isn't on the scale of multiple personality disorder, but it's also not benign. The mind dissociates as a protective measure, by the way.  To protect itself.    To break a traumatized person out of the dissociation they've created in their minds for psychological safety requires facing truth.  It's why at some point in therapy, a rape victim will be asked to utter the words "I was raped" by the shrink.  It may seem cruel at face value, but it's necessary for them to heal and move forward. But not everyone can handle it all at once, because there's different levels of trauma. The revelations have to be measured in time and scale against the tolerance of the brainwashed camp at large. They're about to take a big step in the process. They've been slowly easing people into the revelations to come. This election news will be the first of many, and set the pace. This will be tough on brainwashed people of all political stripes.  Obviously hardest on the far left.  At least the republicans who are bothered by Trump appreciate the things he's done.  People like my mom, for instance.  It will still be tough on them because the truth of these things scares them.  It's not necessarily because they're stupid, though stupid brainwashed people do exist.  It's because the deepstate has been filling them full of fear and anger for literal DECADES of their lives.  They are all traumatized, just to varying degrees.   We're not necessarily better people because we've broken free before them.  Or smarter. We're just freer.  This isn't even a political thing at its root.  It's spiritual.  It's why many on the left joined MAGA in the beginning and even still more this time around.  They broke free.  They're no longer blinded.  "Think for yourself" isn't just a catchy phrase.  It's the prescription for freedom from the mental prison.  Some people need some help and unfortunately we're on the clock so we don't have the luxury of doing this over the same decades long process that it took for them to get there.   This is going to suck for all of them.  It's going to suck for the brainwashed lefties for obvious reasons.  It's going to suck for the brainwashed righties because no one wants to believe that fraud on such a scale could happen in their little protected worlds.  Or that China would actually create and release a dangerous virus on them.  Etc. etc. THIS is why we're necessary.  And man it's tough.  What a burden.  We are mocked and ridiculed for being free by the very people in the prison who we wish to be freed.  And then, when they are freed by a huge boot in the ass, we're expected to then console those same people who mocked us for so long. I have looked forward to the day that I will get to browbeat them.  After the dust settles.  I know it's wrong and really not helpful, but it's what I've felt I'm owed.  At the same time I've been trying to find the compassion for these people that I'm supposed to have.  I feel like it's finally going to be easier for me to do this when the time comes.  Because they are all nothing more than abused children, I see that now.  We all are.  But we've been there and done that.  So we have the responsibility to help when the time comes. Most foster kids are traumatized.  People who take them in have a lot to deal with.  I've heard the stories, they're all the same for the most part.  When the kids treat a loving foster parent poorly, it's not so much because the kid is just a naturally nasty person.  It's because it's a traumatized kid. Same thing here, with us.  We're called to be good foster parents to some very traumatized kids. Just something to consider.