The absolute #1 feedback CTH receives both publicly and privately, even by those who hold tremendous influence amid what we would call the body politic, is something akin to … “I need to be honest with you, I thought you were nuts, but wow, you were right!” – or some version or iteration therein.
That said, there is a great urgency needed in our communication with our family, friends, loved ones and overall community.
There are many conservative ushers, many paid for their job in the business theater of politics, who would prefer we do not question our seating assignment – let alone challenge the scripted performance we are told to watch on the stage. Understanding this facet is going to become increasingly important, as the specific people who control the mechanisms of power become ever more exposed.
A comment by Gemstone is well timed, and actually aligns with a current communication question I am seeking to solve. I also remind myself that when I find difficulty in solution, you guys – the smartest and most aware group of our nation – always have exceptional insight that can help me. Here’s the comment:
…”Sundance, When I attempt to inform the not so informed around me with the information that I read every morning on your pages I receive looks of “no way”, “seriously”, and “why is this the first time that I am hearing about this corruption”. I don’t know how people can be so ill informed. Well, we know as it is easier for Americans to keep this corruption at arm’s length until if finally slaps them upside the head.”… [link]
My questions:
♦ What is the average knowledge of the scale of government corruption within your network (family, friends, community)?
♦ Has their perception, perhaps as well as your own, become more awakened in the past few years? Why?
♦ What communication tools do you think are needed, or would be of value, in order for more people to understand what you are aware of?
Trust me when I say this discussion, while extremely important now, is going to become even more important in the next 12 months.
I am distinctly aware, perhaps uniquely aware of the information control actions that will take place in 2024.
They will be very intense and very targeted.
In 2020, they locked down voters to create the mechanism of control (ballots). In 2024, I can already see the control approach looming; they will lock down voices. Very specific voices.
If you are a regular reader of this site, you are generally a person who engages in intellectual discussion on daily events and more than likely a root cause thinker. Meaning, you are able to grasp events at their cause and not at their consequence.
The challenge is getting those who understand the big picture dynamics to stop being comfortable and sticking their heads in the sand about “motive”. Most people are still clinging to beliefs around a principle of ‘rule of law’ that applies to national leadership writ large. We need to change that thinking quickly – or we will be left explaining ‘what happened’ far too late.
There is also a major issue with conservative “ushers” guiding the audience into a state of tactical numbness. A willful blindness within part of the American electorate, a chosen refusal to acknowledge the implications of the unAmerican and unconstititional actions we are seeing on a daily basis.
It can no longer be presumed to be a matter of, “I can’t see what’s happening”, because a whole lot of normal Americans really are clean and articulate. “I can’t see it”, just doesn’t cut it.
It’s more along the lines of, “I see what’s happening, but it’s scary and complicated and confusing, and if I admit that I see it, I will become responsible in a way that I am not if I keep pretending; I can’t see it or hear it, or maybe I don’t understand it.”
Why don’t we dare say what is so? Are we a bit afraid that if we give up the willful blindness we will perhaps start screaming and not be able to stop? Do we think we have so little courage? Do we really believe that we have no resources to bring to the battle? Or nothing more to contribute to the turning of the battle?
There are patriots who some might say resemble one of those slightly mad orchestra conductors who keep yelling, “More trumpet! More TRUMPET!” Many of you are such slightly mad orchestra leaders. Do not be alarmed by some of the strange looks you are getting these days.
My questions:
♦ What is the average knowledge of government corruption within your network (family, friends, community)?
♦ Has their perception, perhaps as well as your own, become more awakened in the past several years?
♦ What communication tools do you think are needed, or would be of value, in order for more people to understand what you are aware of?
Trust me when I say this discussion, while extremely important now, is going to become even more important in the next 12 months.
I think demoralization is responsible for much willful blindness among Conservatives.
Conservatives should cease entirely using Leftist nomenclature and instead use accurate terms (illegal alien) and devise terms/vernacular to replace those most used by the Left; it should be succinct, descriptive and mocking when possible. Ideally it also puts the Left on the defensive.
Examples:
Progressive – Regressive
Green energy – Grift energy
(Soros) DA – District Criminal Facilitator
Social Justice – Tribal Injustice
BLM – Barak Loves Marxism?
Elections – Ballot seasons
Media/journalist – Propagandist
Perhaps pie charts – one for each major Federal agency – showing partisan donations should be created and disseminated as widely as possible, esp on social media posts.
I am sure others can add to and/or improve on this.
We can dominate local print media.
There’s a void in local weekly newspapers akin to the one that Rush Limbaugh took advantage of in AM radio.
Local businesses need local advertising that targets customers within a very small radius. Radio, TV and Internet are not cost effective in this close range.
CTH could provide the primary content and local authors could contribute letters to the editor in a supporting role.
I know this works because I’ve owned and operated a computer repair shop outside of Albany NY for 25 years and used to advertise in our local family run weekly newspaper. I wrote many letters to the editor of that paper over the years and they printed everything I submitted without editing. My conservative content was very popular and the paper flourished. Conservatives and Republicans now dominate in local elected office.
The business got to be too much for daughter of the paper’s founder to handle and she ended up selling the paper to a national newspaper group. Just prior to the 2020 election season, the new editors started rejecting my letters. My fans complained and the paper lost many readers and advertisers. The paper is now half the size it used to be.
People want conservative content in their local newspapers. Businesses want to advertise in papers that people will actually read. Let’s give it to them.
Sundance,
Q1. Scale of knowledge: Low. Grew up in MA as did my husband. No one on his side is a Trump supporter or even remotely aware of what is truth. Maybe possibly one Sister in law, and her husband, who we do like, but they are religiously Rapture folks. Therefore we don’t engage. Believe what you will and all that, do not ask me to conform to it. . I have always been a non-conformist from a very young age.
Q2. Yes hugely since finding this website around 2017. My social circle and family, who I do speak to, not so much. Two of my siblings thankfully get it! My other two, not at all.
I also recently moved to FL. Not a political move, it is where our grand babies are. We do have a son serving our country and proud of it!
Q3. Great question! I could echo what so many before me said, but that is not helpful. I wish I was this great oracle, who had the power to answer this question.
Alas, I am a mere mortal, but will take up your cause Sundance, whatever you decide, I will, to the best of my ability, espouse it.
All Treepers, I admire you all. God’s blessings on each and everyone❤️
Thank you Sundance, and your amazing Staff!
Q2.
The Leftists / Progressives / Democratic Socialists may very well be doing some of the job for us in their irrational single-minded pursuit of putting President Trump in prison. I’ll let this lady explain.
Maybe President Trump was right?
Effective.
Paraphrasing, ‘Trump is no longer President. So why are people trying so hard to take him down?’
Simple questions to get pretenders to think. 👍🏼
Thx FH
Wow! Truth from Pol Analyst besides Sundance!
😳😳😳😳
Listen at the end:
“in 1871 we owed you [Britain] a LOT of money bc of the Civil War”.
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[We are/were OWNED by the Brits and the Vatican since 1871 bc the UNITED STATES was bankrupted bc of the cost of Civil War and sold OUR FUTURE earnings to pay the debt. That’s where most of our taxes have been going.]
The Pope was upset bc: “It took 650 planes to get all of our gold from the Vatican!”
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[They cut out any more bc people can’t handle the truth that WE, ALL CITIZENS of THE UNITED STATES [a CORPORATION not a country], have been debt slaves for generations!]
Look up “British Accreditation Registry” what The BAR (You know. Who attorneys report to…) actually stands for!
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1st article in search:
https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/british-accreditation-registry-crown-temple-b-a-r/
There are 100’s more articles with this info.
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No wonder our politicians are corrupt! They know the truth and lie to us all to hold their precious jobs $$$$!!!!
Sad pic of a president under persecution.
Pray for him!
I still intend to read through the second half of the comments (got through half) before adding a real response. But I saw this and it seems like a good thing to say or show to people one is attempting to redpill.
♦ What is the average knowledge of government corruption within your network (family, friends, community)?
Very little. I have one family member that also reads the Treehouse, but the rest of my family is Conservative. They just don’t understand the depth of the corruption.
♦ Has their perception, perhaps as well as your own, become more awakened in the past several years?
Absolutely, watching Trump run in 2015 was like a light switch turning on in my head. All the issues that were never talking about by the establishment were now open for debate. Watching him steamroll the other pretending Republicans in the primary was like a work of art. After that, the vitriol that the mainstream media spewed at him cemented the idea that something was seriously wrong with the system. I started reading the Treehouse around 2019. Before Trump, an accurate description of my family would be Neocon Republicans. My family’s perception has changed as well, but most of them are still stuck on the Woke distraction.
♦ What communication tools do you think are needed, or would be of value, in order for more people to understand what you are aware of?
Its quite hard to start understanding everything that’s being said on this website, you constantly reference previous points or articles you wrote. I’d say it took me about a year of reading and following everyday in order to fully understand your posts. Even as a long time reader, its hard to keep tract of the spiderweb.
A simple overview would be helpful, maybe a “Read this First” spot on the website to at least explain the basic concepts.
Also, I’d totally agree, there is a lot of willful blindness, the rich man has too much to lose. But someone that willfully blind can move to active participant much easier than someone that’s totally ignorant.
Just now replying to this:
1. I live north of the swamp about 45 minutes. People here are waking up more than ever. I think the perceptions of how widespread the corruption is growing exponentially. I share what I learn and know to be true often and proudly, pisses some people off but they never push back. I dont waste time with the head in the sand karens/pick your commie cause crowd, not worth my energy.
2-I think meme’s, blunt political t-shirts, stickers on gas pumps and grocery shelve price tags are a very effective way to spread the message. Other idea: maybe the rebel alliance needs to start some pop up pirate radio stations along major thoroughfares.
I’ve wondered how to ask ‘how much success’ did you have over the dinner table during covid? Explaining Corruption in simple sound bites is much harder; I’d say impossible. Email? Better make them long and in depth and pray that your target reads it all. Or you can probably reach (and teach) more people by leaving the eloquence and hard work to people like Sundance. I’m on Twitter every morning arguing with no one, just posting many of his posts. I bookmark certain articles and reply or ‘Comment’ by simply pasting one of Sundance’s. Whether people read the whole thing or not, the good thing about pasting as most of you may know is that the title and gist of the article is in sight, nothing to click on. This works excellently when responding to all the DeSantis postings. As for corruption, well, how many have you reached? Call it the lazy man’s way. I am the lazy man.
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I have a leftist brother who locked me totally out of the lives of his family and himself because I thought President Trump did things that are good for us. I have other close relatives that simply will not discuss any possibility that anything is wrong or that change might be possible.
The cell phone has done so much damage to the world. Kids can’t put it down for a second it seems. My son is a PE coach and he continually tells kids to put their phones away, but they just cuss at him and keep doing what they want. Parents give kids their phones to keep them busy while they are doing other things. Kids get addicted and parents are addicted as well. It is a nightmare.
♦ What is the average knowledge of government corruption within your network (family, friends, community)?
My family is about half and half. I have 6 siblings, and only one of them is liberal/progressive. The others are quite aware of what is going on. The bulk of my friends are libertarian/conservative. We meet weekly online to discuss the issues of the week , what they mean, and if there are any actions we should take. As far as the community I live in, well, I’m in California, in a left-leaning town, with a progressive city council. They don’t acknowledge any corruption but what they think is Trump’s.
♦ Has their perception, perhaps as well as your own, become more awakened in the past several years?
My family and friends have become more aware and quite a bit more depressed about it. We just keep hoping/believing that knowledge will help to reverse the horrible path our country is on.
♦ What communication tools do you think are needed, or would be of value, in order for more people to understand what you are aware of?
Our small group has run workshops in the last year on 1. How the oppressor-victim politics took over and how it works, 2. How to have conversations with people who disagree with you, and 3. How propaganda is used. We’ve only had a total of about 30 people attend, but we’re exploring expanding it.