There seems to be an onset of mass fear and hatred in the United States that permeates in a manner that is far more active than in times of the Cold War. In that era, we were aware of the Soviet threat. We could name the so-called enemy and we could hide in our shelters with guns and ammo waiting to dive into our stored wheat that we would grind into bread. The world worried that nukes would be used to show whose boss. Even though there was deep rooted paranoia with the cold war, there is nothing that is far more dreadful than the hate which has been generated after we have endured the trauma of the post 9/11 psychological operations.

There is no doubt that what is happening in this country is a well-produced psy-op and social experiment to see how the strategy of tension will affect the group mind in this country.

Strategies of tension are age-old operative tactics that are used on a large scale in order to control people in the way that the authorities wish them to behave. You may think that your observations of what is happening around you in a crisis are correct, but with the tension strategies provided, you are making all of your decisions on what is happening because you are a casual observer and not a participant in the event.

Every camera angle, every sound bite, every concern, information tidbit and summation of so-called gathered facts are only media driven and public opinion driven for the sole purpose of steering the consensus toward a solution that also is directed and suggested by the controlling authority.

Tension strategies build anxiety and doubt. These anxieties and doubts are immediately tranquilized by the assumed idea that the authorities will take care of it, and whatever they say has to be the truth because we trust they are always thinking of our best interests rather than self-interests.

Tension strategies have been proven tactics used to divide, manipulate and control people.

These tactics are meant to create targeted violence that can be labeled as acts of war or terror in order to get the populace to react and become desensitized to the inevitability of police or military force to move in and take control of peaceful societies.

It leads to provocation, violence and intimidation. It also creates a public mistrust of a particular race, religion or social status. It increases the level of tension in a society and makes people suspicious of each other and in return creates the illusion that they have no choice but to place their trust on a centralized power that they encourage to step in and control them.

It also creates a precedent for modern witch hunts, where the public demands there be no due process of law, no trials and no substantive processes that are given as rights in a constitution.

The public rationalizes that if authorities, including the media have decided that a person sought after by authorities is guilty, and engages in defensive behavior, then they give up their right to a trial by a jury of their peers.

This leads to destabilization of the public order, the public right, and the public sovereignty for the purpose of stabilizing the political tyrannical order.

We are pumped full of propaganda that along with news speak and quote mining of our political candidates by the media, there seems to be a cloud of hatred that has spread to the level of historical proportions.

If the hate doesn’t scare you, it should because this untamed hatred is a symptom indicating that our civil cohesion is splitting apart to the point of what can be compared to a civil sectarian war.

Sectarianism is a word which conjures up many different emotions, opinions and perspectives. The term can take on different meanings depending on how it is used. The word is usually used to describe organized bigotry between religious sects.

Forgive me if I am taking liberties with the definition of sectarianism, but for the purpose of this dialogue I am defining it as the nurturing and fostering of narrow-minded political beliefs that lead to prejudice, discrimination, malice and ill-will towards members, of other political groups, religious groups.

Although sectarianism is rooted in religion, it is often linked to cultural, historical and political differences. It is frequently argued that in recent years, this type of intolerance of others has little link with history or association with religion itself.

Since politics has become the new religion, the application of the word sectarianism to describe militant partisanship applies now more than it ever has as because it is evident that we now accept bigotry, discrimination, and hatred between political ideologies as acceptable in society today.

It is terrifying to witness Americans dangerously attaching notions of inferiority and superiority to certain groups and using scapegoats to compensate for their lack of civility.

The truth is not welcome today and as George Orwell, the author of Animal Farm and 1984 once stated; “In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

The real truth, if you choose to accept it, is that while we are seeing hateful words being shouted out by protesters at Trump rallies and violent scuffles between divided Democrats – namely the Sanders and Clinton supporters – there are still those who now see the elections and the participating in the process as a dangerous proposal.

Those who are worried about riots, threats of harm, and other possible terror events during the elections are now putting both the candidates in a negative light.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton register net negative ratings in double digits, indicating the front-runners for each party’s presidential nominations are viewed negatively at historic levels, according to a new CBS/New York Times poll.

That makes Trump and Clinton viewed more unfavorably than any front-runner for either party since 1984, when CBS began polling voters on the question.

On the Republican side, Trump scores a net negative of -33, with a favorable rating of 24% compared to 57% of voters who view him unfavorably. On the Democratic side, Clinton fares only slightly better with a net negative of -21, registering a 31% favorable rating and a 52% unfavorable rating, according to the poll.

Both candidates’ negatives far outweigh front-runners of the past. In 2012, President Barack Obama was viewed favorably and unfavorably by an equal share of voters, while Republican nominee Mitt Romney scored a net negative of -7. In 2008, both Obama and Sen. John McCain had net positive ratings of 16 and 7 points, respectively.

The previous highest unfavorable rating since 1984 actually belongs to another Clinton – former President Bill Clinton, who in 1992 had a net negative rating of -17.

Most have low opinions of the two political parties as a whole as well.

The truth is that Americans hate their choices for their new leadership.

It is now evident that the political order in our society is unstable hence a strategy of tension is exerted upon people to garner political control of society. You have the option to stay in your homes or be shot, but not to worry all television programs will continue without any interruption.

You can watch the circus from your own home as you are asked to shelter in place while the mass arrests happen at conventions and political rallies.

Naïve (liberal and conservative) people in America, comfortable in their manicured lawn suburban sprawl, complacent with ‘American Idol’ and sports will discount the possibility of civil unrest, and a selected dictatorship in this country.

You can call it unbelievable you can shout that it is inconceivable, but look at the climate of anger and hatred that is being reported by a media that has its mouth watering, waiting for the civil war to begin and the revolution without purpose explode on the 24 hour news cycle.

It will be the mainstream media’s magnum opus as they have contributed to this psy-op.

A well-oiled state media and their ability to deceive is so easy when nothing has been learned from history – or has been challenged without skewed debate to push an agenda.

It has been said that “Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State.” So how do we decide that the mainstream media is the enemy if it speaks against what believe and yet clings to it as truth?

When in actuality, they are being told to confirm the fears of the consensus by creating psy-op that favors the control of all aspects of society by an out of control government that knows it is on its last legs.

How are we supposed to react as a people when we see black helicopters fly over our cities with armed soldiers? How are we supposed to interpret the use of unmarked vehicles that have cages attached to them? What are we to think when our neighborhoods are blocked off with armored vehicles or drones flying above us that are armed and programmed to fire at the mere whim of a program that could fail.

What are they preparing for? Isn’t it obvious?

Robert A. Heinlein wrote:

“Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms, but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners, lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, which is more significant than an all out riot.”

Arguably, these complex acts of hate and militant partisanship will lead to an all out riot or worse.

Today while I was watching CNN, I saw something very troubling.

At a rally where Donald Trump was going to declare that he has the delegates needed to clench his political party’s nomination, I watched people has they attempted to walk passed protestors to get to the rally. A man carrying his little girl in his arms was trying to get through while his wife followed with a little boy.

Under the reporter’s voice who was talking you could hear the protestors jeering at the couple. However, the jeering became malicious as one of the protestors got in the face of the man and said “I’ll bet you are a racist – that’s right you vote for Donald Trump — you are a racist – then he looked to the man’s wife and said “I’ll bet he bet he beats you – I’ll bet he is a rapist too.”

This was in front of his children.

Even after he got away from the harassment others were shouting “F-Trump” and harassed others as they were moving through the crowds to get to the rally.

I stopped watching after that – I wondered how that man who was being bullied kept his composure especially when his wife and kids were being harassed with vicious and cruel language.

It never fails; extremism erodes any and all arguments. It appears that we are all being manipulated into hating each other.

We are being subjected to a social suicide psy-op that will continue to foment as long as this hatred continues unabated.

The once cold and silent war between, races, religions and political groups is now heating up only because of the encouragement by the mainstream narrative as pretext for a militarized front for the elite that want to create the image of Battlefield America.

The problems and the hostilities can be blamed on both the right and left. Sure there may be a presidential candidate that is the lesser of two evils—but that doesn’t mean that the process of the election of this lesser evil is not turning evil or at least uncivil.

None of the candidates are worth fighting over. If anything our battle should be to keep corruption out of the ultimate seat of power.

The flashiness of political showdown and the cheering on the sidelines of what can be seen as a Trojan Horse race overshadows the real problem.

That is the rising of American sectarianism. It is becoming obvious this whole social experiment is about cults of personality, not principles, or even peace.

If we hate our political choices or give them unfavorable approval ratings, then why are we taking it out on ourselves? Why are we judging people by their political ideologies when it is obvious that the political parties are enabling discord amongst the people?

We are declaring war on ourselves and calling it a revolution.

https://soundcloud.com/groundzeromedia/a2016-5-26

Written by Ron Patton