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When classic demonic possession reaches its acute phase, the victim often displays supernatural abilities such as uncanny physical strength, the ability to speak obscure languages, levitation, unnatural flexibility, insensitivity to pain, and clairvoyance. The demon flamboyantly showcases its power as the host struggles deep in the background, locked in a hidden prison of the subconscious. The host recedes as the demon pulls out all the stops in its hostile takeover.
The trouble with this sort of success is that there is only so much a fragile host body can take, and the huge amount of blowback generated from constant stunts grinds strained gears until shutdown is a preeminent risk.
Canceller becomes Cancellee
In the US, leftist cancel culture peaked in 2013. Barack Obama won his second term and The Weinstein Company was pumping out film projects featuring Oprah and Stephen Colbert and winning Cannes awards. Meanwhile, in less glamorous settings, a still-relevant Facebook was bubbling with glee over the cancellation of Paula Deen for using a racial slur.
The true driver of leftist hatred, classism, was hidden modestly under heavy veils. None dared imagine a future outside of the clutches of the liberal elites who still controlled entertainment, news, medicine, and education. Those who spoke against the leftist narrative of political correctness had the luck of a bloody steak thrown into a tank full of piranhas. Occupy Wall Street was deflated and mocked for its Millennial whininess, and atheists Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Neil DeGrasse-Tyson still hoped to surf the wake of Christopher Hitchens’s death.
2014 brought GamerGate, when leftist women trying to shoehorn themselves into video game culture got cancelled by tribes of young, angry men. By the end of 2015, Trump was president, and with him, the curtain was raised on over forty years of overclass prestidigitation, embezzlement, cheating, and arbitrage. The cancellers got cancelled. They could dish it, but they just couldn’t take it. A human being of indeterminate gender in a pricey green windbreaker screamed NO! into the sky and was immortalized as a meme. Another was unfairly captured in a moment of unflattering, neck-bulging emotion as The Triggered Feminist despite her calm demeanor during a protest.
It still took worldwide lockdowns perpetuated by nihilist scientists and morbidly bored Karens to red pill the average “essential” worker and his recently unemployed/underemployed lower class counterpart. Hollywood hypocrisy in the form of doofus actors singing the worst possible song at the worst possible time put the idea into Joe Average’s head that perhaps we are not all in this together, and perhaps it was finally time to admit publicly that one had voted for Trump and planned to do so again.
Parasite's Dilemma
Blowback accumulated over many years was hitting the Left in waves at this time. Impeachment backfired, Biden was caught doing to a young woman what Trump only bragged about, and Black Lives Matter quickly revealed itself as a depraved and violently racist murder cult. The demons of the Left had no choice but to unleash the hounds of hell. Desperate stunts serve as distracting fronts. Rioting may be the language of the unheard but it is also the language of demons who don’t want anyone to realize the host is nearly used up. A dead host is like a toppled wall to a mammoth colony of English ivy: it’s not usable.
The parasite is giving the host a good thrashing, beating it within an inch of its life before it attempts the jump to new and better hosts.
In an alleged response to the murder of a presumed innocent, the Left was responsible for riots that killed innocents, including children. Their looting and vandalism spree was literally anti-Christ, befouling and destroying statues of a loving God and his holy Mother with the feeble excuse that Jesus was portrayed with the wrong skin color. Fiery, apocalyptic, months-long mass tantrums were enabled by leftist media, governors, and mayors as cities burned and businesses that were just beginning to get to their feet again were reduced to broken glass and ashes.
Confused leftists spun their wheels in several “autonomous” zones in leftist-controlled cities, splattering their makeshift fortresses with obscene depictions of penises and copious uses of a word that rhymes with duck.
Leftists became consumed by large and small energy loops of their own making, returning to their folly like a dog to its vomit and subject to the law of ever-diminishing returns. Each time the same part of the closed loop of shock and control tactics was passed, the dopamine rush was slightly less satisfying, and it was certainly a faint shadow of its 2013 potency.
If There Be Trolls
There is a point in many video games, whether played solo or with many others online, where it is easy to become a troll. To become a troll, you do things you’re “not supposed” to do, such as kill the character you are supposed to save, torch the area you are supposed to canvas for treasure, or in the case of Grand Theft Auto V, Second Life, or DayZ, utilize programming hacks to virtually “rape” other people’s avatars. If you thought “Oh for heaven’s sake, if you are getting raped in any online game, just put down the controller, TURN OFF THE COMPUTER, and go outside,” you were not alone. Nevertheless, gamer trolls exist and have existed long before games went online.
Trolling is the last resort of a bully who is losing at the larger games of life and consequently wants to exert total domination in the small games where he still can do damage.
The demons of the Left have won many battles and yet the war remains out of reach. The extreme antics of hate cults like Antifa and BLM have not been enough to lend an air of legitimacy; in fact, the opposite effect has occurred. Tearing down statues, a grotesque show of demonic power, only resulted in the masses becoming curious at what the Democratic Party was so desperate to hide about its own pockmarked anti-black history. Attempting to ban free speech and gun ownership made both seem more appealing, like when Tipper Gore took it upon herself to slap warning stickers on 2 Live Crew CDs in the 1980s. The last of the feverish devotees of the Left champion mask enforcement in a pathetic bid to muzzle anyone who would appear to disagree with their restrictions in the public arena. Leftists who lack the brawn or the vigor to snuff out human lives and destroy property via riots are being commandeered into the neo-Pravda campaign. The physically weak ones are easily shepherded into crusades of enforced mask-wearing, shuttered restaurants, abandoned stadiums, emptied factories, mandatory vaccinations, and eternal welfare for all. Like the demons behind the fever dream of 80s Conservative Satanic Panic, the demons of the Left never suspected they could lose...
In my next and final post on this subject, I’ll be discussing strategies to keep oneself sane and clean of demonic influence, whether that is from leftists or elsewhere. Thank you for reading this post. I welcome your comments and I thank you in advance for not using profanity.