"The Manchurian Candidate", the dystopian masterpiece directed by John Frankenheimer in 1962, brought the concept of "brainwashing" to the big screen. The CliffNotes on the plot are that an American sergeant named Raymond Shaw is captured by an elite Soviet combat unit and taken prisoner in North Korea. He is then “brainwashed” by North Korean and Soviet psychological handlers who program and train Shaw to become a sleeper assassin dedicated to the mission of returning to America and assassinating the President of the United States, allowing a pro-Communist Vice President to ascend to the Presidency.
Shaw is programmed by his captors in bizarre ways to be triggered by seemingly innocuous scenes involving elderly ladies, who implant his brain with bizarre and ultimately murderous commands. Raymond's platoonmates, also captured, are programmed to say: “Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.” Throughout the drama, Shaw and his fellow captives reiterate hollow and repetitive phrases that were planted in their minds through the "brainwashing process." They all become the unwitting tools of their former Communist captors and will do and say anything they are ordered to when subjected to the hypnotic triggers they were exposed to while in captivity.
There was another version of "The Manchurian Candidate" made in 1992, starring Denzel Washington. I never saw it, and I generally don't favor remakes, especially when attempting to redo a masterpiece.
The term "Manchurian Candidate" has been used metaphorically for a person who has been brainwashed into robotically thinking, repeating, and acting upon ideas that they have been directed, ordered, or programmed to engage in.
In 2023, America is on the brink of becoming “The Manchurian Nation"…
American Culture and Institutions have been academically, politically, and commercially shaped to accept concepts, ideas, and practices that have undermined every unique fundamental American foundational idea. Even worse, is that increasingly, there are no longer any debates or discussions about issues impacting America the most. Americans have essentially been directed to accept the ideas that:
The "Climate Change" grift is justified and our most important issue.
Open borders are acceptable for any and all who want to come in.
Each of these absurd propositions has been promulgated and force-fed by The American Pravda, leading a plurality, now moving toward a substantial majority of Americans, to believe and regurgitate these responses.
When asked about Open Borders, people respond with "Our ancestors were immigrants…" as if that justifies unregulated border crossings allowing terrorists and criminals into our country.
When asked about Transgender issues, they parrot the response that they have had banged into their heads in the classroom and through The American Pravda that the acceptance of a biological male as female is all about tolerance, ignoring the manifest absurdity of accepting a biological male as a female.
We're on the precipice of losing it all…
With the advancement of Artificial Intelligence, the human brain will continue to atrophy. The fact that AI is programmed far to the Left, the responses it prompts us to give will pervert the arc of freedom and independent thinking to a point of no return unless people recognize the urgency of thinking critically for themselves.
In "The Manchurian Candidate", Raymond Shaw's platoonmates were programmed to robotically respond to anyone who asked, “Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.” The truth was that while in North Korean captivity, Shaw was ordered to murder two GIs right in front of the men who were brainwashed into singing his praises. These men witnessed these murders with their own eyes but were ordered to speak highly of Shaw when triggered.
So here's the question for you:
Are you already “The Manchurian American”, or are you still capable of independent thinking without being instructed by the American Pravda?
-Emes