January | 2023 | Incoming Tomatoes

by LEE KESSLER

Having revealed in my novels how “mind guys” implement their mind control, there is a tactic we all need to be aware of that has already been deployed to influence the Republican primaries and selection of the candidate for 2024. Election interference has already begun, and it is being done under the category of Perception Management.

That tactic used to be known as mind control or brainwashing. Then it was changed to propaganda as a whole “new-age” form of warfare was developed. To sanitize it even further and make it palatable to the average person, propaganda was redefined as Public Relations. A whole industry was born to do “opposition research” to support one’s candidate, and destroy the opponent by souring the voter–not on the opponent’s policies and viewpoints, but rather on a rejection of their perceived character flaws. Initially begun with the idea that the research might expose some sordid things, but would actually be true, it has given way in recent years to a concoction of half-truths, falsehoods, and outright slander. And that is where the propagandist operates—in the murkiness of lies that appear as truth.

Most recently, however, to legitimize it even more after the Steele Dossier and Russia Hoax debacle, those who would override your reason with emotion and passion have chosen a delicious new route called Perception Management. If one can create and/or manipulate what you see and perceive, you change your thoughts, and thereby your decisions and actions. Whether you change your vote, or lose your enthusiasm, or withhold contributions, or pass on harmful information in order to “inform” your followers, if one can alter your perception, they are engaged in the slickest form of mind control.

For example, last week, Trump was in New Hampshire as part of his campaign. I heard a news commentator remark that there didn’t seem to be the enthusiasm in the crowd that used to be there for him. And, further inserting his opinion into his evaluation, he added that perhaps it is time for someone new. This was a top-rated news agency, not CNN or MSNBC.

I realized then that one of the most dangerous Perception Management operations has already begun to stop Donald J Trump from receiving the nomination of his party for President. It is obvious to me that his policies worked, and they worked because of his unique and creative leadership style, and his unshakable courage in the face of relentless attacks, 24/7. Perception Management will redefine that steadfastness as “reckless stubbornness” however. In my lifetime, I have never seen a President so attacked, so relentlessly, as he and his administration worked to better conditions in the United States and abroad.

Whether you love him or hate him, whether you voted for him or against him, when a President has an historic increase in people voting for him over his first run for the office, and when he and the American people—75 million of us—were told he had lost, it defied credibility. Sadly, the Biden Campaign was a study in Perception Management, and its first huge victory was the defeat of Trump. Now, one should ask oneself, who really wanted Trump gone? Was it really the American people, or was it someone else?

I believe it is in fact someone else, and they skillfully aligned forces and industries like Big Media and Big Tech to ensure he did not make it. You can read “White King and the Seat at the Table” to find out who they are and what they plan for you next. Their problem, though, is Donald J. Trump. He is running again for his second term. And 75 million Americans believe their vote was somehow negated in 2020. Whether it was cheating, incompetence, wholly inadequate state elections laws, media manipulation, edgy voting day disparities, or even legal loopholes, the outcome was the same—tens of millions of Americans now doubt the election process in the US.

The solution that the Perception Management people have cooked up is this. They can’t outright tell 75 million Americans to stop believing in President Trump, or to stop believing in what they witnessed in 2020. So, they are inside the party itself now promoting selecting someone who is “just like Trump, but not Trump.” The very traits that made him so effective in negotiations, in policies, and in world leadership are the traits they want you to shy away from. Statements like “well, I loved his policies, but I didn’t like his personality, or his tweets” are straight out of the opposition playbook in Perception Management. The goal is to get you to change your perception of Trump, by lowering it just enough that you will choose “someone just like him, but not him.” The problem is there is no one like him. He is a one of a kind, and a total standout in the nearly 250 year history of our country. If they can manage your perception of him, dampen your enthusiasm, or get you to embrace the delusion that if he just goes away and we pick someone else all things will calm down, they win.

I personally experienced the negative outcome of such thinking in my acting career in Hollywood. As a young actress rising into starring roles (about the time I was blacklisted) the top producer of TV shows at the time was casting the lead in a 10-part miniseries to be followed by a series. He had chosen me, but had not made an offer. Then, “someone” gave him the idea that he should find someone just like Lee Kessler, but not Lee Kessler. He searched all over the United States—literally–and the last night before he would have to start filming he found someone in Chicago “just like Lee Kessler, only not Lee Kessler.” The project failed totally, because although she was a lovely, nice actress who looked like me, she was not me.

And someone wants you to embrace the “just like Trump, but not Trump” mantra. My situation was trivial in the grand scheme of things. But, the undermining of an American President is not. The attack will be covert, and it will come from within the ranks of very credible people. Their voice and their argument will seem so reasonable. Having lived in Florida until this year, I admire and respect Gov. DeSantis. But, he is not Donald Trump. Neither is Nikki Haley. Neither is Mike Pompeo. All fine people. But, mark my words, if Republicans like anyone of these, or a long list of other hopefuls, and begin to salivate over the idea of offering one of them up to us as the candidate, they have already succumbed to the perception management tactics.

Just make sure you, my fellow countrymen, do not take the bait. He is today who he was in 2016 and throughout his presidency. He represented and spoke for millions upon millions. But if an enemy can get you to favor calm and predictability more than you value world security and the security and prosperity of the American people, that enemy knows you will have fallen for their perception management whereby they persuaded you that he is somehow too noisy, too dangerous, and you must choose someone more traditionally palatable—someone safer. In doing so, they override the obvious—it was all the calm, safe politicians who got us here in the first place, and were too cowardly to back their President when he stood up.

Controversial, embattled, noisy, sometimes full of grace, sometimes uncouth, he nonetheless got the job done in the world as it is today, not as it was in the past. The next time you hear someone say, “well, we like his policies, but we just want someone else who won’t be soooo…we want somebody different,” just know they are repeating the propaganda line of the Perception Management arm of the global elites. In the world of propaganda strategies, a lie told often enough becomes the truth. Likewise, the repetition of the message until all embrace it is an old marketing strategy still used today. The more of you who repeat that message, the more you make it true.

Ask yourself, who benefits if someone with good intentions and talent, but nowhere near seasoned enough to stop the opposing party’s candidate—let alone our formidable global adversaries–is nominated? You? Or maybe the naïve people who just quietly and sweetly say, “I just don’t like his tweets,” hoping that if he goes away somehow miraculously all things will be hunky dory again ? No. Regrettably, just like the Hollywood story that turned out badly with the Producer’s choice, this will turn out badly. Only this one really matters to mankind’s future. The TV show did not. Don’t take the bait!

Lee Kessler’s blogs are at: www.LeeKessler.net

In the early 2000’s I began the journey that led to the 4 part series of suspense novels, culminating in the final book, “White King and the Seat at the Table.” Inspired by actual events that had peaked my curiosity, causing me to want to locate the source of the apparent collapse of America from within, I theorized there was an actual group—intent upon taking dominion globally. I asked myself, “What if a group of people wanted to take control of the world and its inhabitants? What would they do? Who would they have to defeat or destroy in order to accomplish their dominance?

My conclusion was that the obstacle standing in their path—the great experiment that liberated men—was the United States. And the American people were the underpinning of all that the United States represents. In order to render the United States impotent, I theorized this enemy would have to undermine the people themselves. And, more importantly, get the American people to do it to themselves.

The strategy is simple. It is as old as any military strategy that exists. Divide and Conquer. Through the centuries generals and armies have used this strategy to defeat an otherwise formidable opponent. Only this time, the Divide and Conquer strategy is being implemented through psychological warfare. You may call it Information Warfare. No matter the terms from the past, today propaganda and psychological warfare have evolved into Perception Management. Information and disinformation are pitted against one another in order to manipulate your perceptions, and thereby your conclusions and actions. This simple marketing strategy in the hands of power-hungry, arrogant men and women has brought the United States to its knees.

I am sure none of us doubts that America is a nation that is divided—right straight down the middle. The last two election cycles will have disabused even the most ardent deniers of the reality that Americans have two different universes they are living in now, and those universes are at war with each other.

The ongoing Twitter revelations have exposed this Perception Management in its most grotesque and dangerous light—harassment, censorship, collusion, and manipulation of data to manage the perceptions and actions of American citizens.

The very important question politically right now is: How was this division done? The answer: By inserting a Fifth Column not only into the United States, but most importantly into each of the foundational institutions we anchor on: Family, Religion, Education, Justice, even Government. There is a Fifth Column within each of those, and within subsets of each of those. A Fifth Column is defined as: any group of people who undermine a larger group or nation from within, usually in favor of an enemy group or another nationl It is comprised of domestic actors who work to undermine the national interest, in cooperation with external rivals of the state. And you, my friends, must come to understand this, or the Fifth Column will continue to erode government, morals, ethics, education, family values, individual identity, rule of law etc. There is an external enemy.

You may ask, why am I laying this out now? Can’t you just read my books to get an insight into how this might play out? You could. The novels are the allegorical story of this external rival and the internal Fifth Column over the last 20 years. I encourage you to do that. But, time is short, and there is one particular Fifth Column that I am sure exists. And it is hamstringing our Legislative Branch. That Fifth Column is not inside the Democrat Party. They are almost like a Fifth Column of their own, hell-bent on sabotaging the Constitution, sowing division wherever they go. However, they are overt and predictable. A true Fifth Columnist will be covert, unpredictable, and most typically embraced as a friend. That is why those involved are hard to ferret out. And it will always be a surprise when you find out who they actually are.

The Fifth column I am referring to is one inside the Republican Party. Of course, that is just my opinion. But you should ask yourself why the Republican Party can not get unanimity on key issues. Why do they have the unnerving capability of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory at almost every turn. Witness the embarrassing inability to elect a Speaker of the House. Witness the disappointing performance overall in the 2022 elections. Witness the acceptance of the monstrosity known as the Omnibus Bill. Who could possibly be encouraging members of their group to vote for a 3000 page document that no one has likely read, to spend an additional $1.7T? Who could possibly have failed to stall the vote until the new Congress would come in? Why would they not delay?

Here’s my challenge to fellow conservatives: Who is perhaps speaking self-righteously right now, as they encourage actions that would divide and weaken the party further? In “Julius Ceasar” the soothsayer said, “Beware the Ides of March.” Well, I’d like to say, “Beware the ‘Stand on Principle’ pitch.” Standing on principle is important, but it is also a propaganda button used to manage your perceptions. Who actually is being served if the Republican Party has been divided? Who seduced and compromised enough members to embarrass and discredit the party itself? Moreover, who is the enemy group or nation that these trusted members are serving?

The answer, as repugnant as it may be to you, or shocking to you, lies in this overarching reality: human nature. Why does a mayor run for governor? Why does a governor run for President? And what does a President, or top-echelon government official, run for? What’s the next rung of the ladder they are climbing? It used to be that being President of the United States was the pinnacle of power, accomplishment, and leadership. But, is that true today? Or is there yet another echelon of power?

We need to ask those who are being divisive, “ Who are you really serving—wittingly or unwittingly?”

Who and where are the external enemy groups, whose favor they curry? Who intends to exert authority over all of us, and who views themselves as senior to, not just us, but also our elected officials, and our Constitution itself? It is these people that some of our trusted leaders pay homage to. It is their favor they curry.

Here’s a hint to locate not only those who have been conned into destructive acts, but, more importantly, to ferret out those trusted allies who actually conned them: They leave a verbal breadcrumb trail. Listen now. Look for those whose verbiage includes such things as Global Peace, Global Security (Zelensky before our Congress) , Global Health, Global Justice, Global Climate Change Initiatives, Global Digital Currencies, Global Energy Policies.

The purveyors of globalism are the antagonists in my latest book. Those characters are as real as it gets, however. And unless we get very expert at ferreting out the Fifth Columnists in each of our institutions, our families, our churches, our schools, and our government will continue to erode until we no longer resemble our former selves—as a people and as a nation. I recommend we stop asking ourselves the questions, “Why would our leaders fail to protect the country?” Why would they do something so stupid? Why are they doing or not doing…?”

The answer does not so much lie in why . The answer lies in the question, “Who are they in fact serving?”

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