Psychological projection playbook: How elites blame you for what they do
From book bans to custody battles, they accuse opponents of their own tactics while creating confusion among votersA phrase often attributed to Saul Alinsky, author of “Rules for Radicals,” or to Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler’s Nazi minister of propaganda, is “Accuse your opponent of what you are doing, to create confusion and to inculcate voters against evidence of your own guilt.” Although attribution for this quote may be spurious, it continues to resonate with millions for a reason.
Psychological projection is part of our common human experience. It’s a tactic as old as time itself. As Adam blamed Eve and Eve blamed the snake, and the snake then blamed God himself, so, too, do today’s establishment elites continue to accuse everyone but themselves of the very things they do with impunity.
Consider just a handful of last week’s headlines.
In Oregon, Roderick Theis, a public school educator, was ordered by Elgin and Union school district administrators to remove children’s books he had displayed in his workspace. Why would these proud opponents of book bans do this? Well, the publications in question — “He Is He” and “She Is She” by Ryan and Bethany Bomberger and “Johnny the Walrus” by Matt Walsh — were deemed by these oh-so-tolerant higher-ups to “promote a binary view of gender” that created “a hostile expression of animus toward actual or perceived gender identity.”
For this offense, Mr. Theis was told to remove the books immediately from his office or face “discipline up to and including termination of employment.” Thus, the very people screaming incessantly about conservatives wanting to censor free speech and ban books shamelessly decided to censor Mr. Theis and forcefully ban his books from their schools. “Accuse your opponent of what you are doing to create confusion.” Indeed.
Meanwhile, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, signed the Kelly Loving Act into law, which now allows the state to revoke custody from mothers and fathers who “misgender” their children by defining such parenting as “coercive control.” This law creates legal grounds for the state to take children away from parents who refuse to play along with an 8- or 9-year-old’s public school-induced gender fantasies. It states explicitly that “deadnaming” or “misgendering” (otherwise known as calling your son a boy and your daughter a girl) will henceforth be considered relevant in court decisions determining “the best interests of a child.”
In other words, those who emotionally abuse and intellectually coerce children via their sexual indoctrination are now accusing parents of abuse and coercion for telling their kids that the science-denying garbage about 57 different genders is nonsense.
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