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Hi, this is Free Thinking through the fourth Turning. My name is Sacha Stone. There's no such thing as a sane Democrat. Even the most normal among them have no choice but to fall in line. The rage and hysteria are escalating. They're openly calling for Trump's assassination. Somebody just do it already, dude. Just do it. A lot of them always go to the same places, sometimes even together. Just do what needs to be done. Everybody will view you as a godlike figure, a hero, a folk legend. Just do what needs to be. Who's gonna take the initiative to do it? I don't care how you do it, Just do it. What are we gonna do with the MAGA people when this is all over? Whether it takes a year or 10 or 15, the officials that were complicit in this will all go to jail. But what are we going to do with the everyday MAGA person that didn't technically break the law? Because I can't care about them, respect them, or even share a meal with these people ever again. So what do we do with them? Nothing scares them more than us realizing that we outnumber them them, we outsmart them, we're stronger than them, we want better for us than they ever will. They're marching, they're protesting, they're screaming into the void for what? They don't know. Something has been taken from them, something they desperately want back. It's been 10 long years of fighting, but nothing has worked. There is no way out for them. They're trapped. Here is a video of tick tockers. Can I rant on here? How are you in a church celebrating in America right now? The sheer horror of realizing that we were never overreacting to the threats of our government makes the air thick enough to choke on. But I'm afraid we might be running out of time to swallow the shock and the disbelief. And I hope with all my heart that I'm wrong. But I truly believe we are rapidly approaching the point where most of us are going to need to make very difficult decisions about how we move forward. So I'm going to ask you, if you see local police cooperating with ice, will you speak out? If you see your local school board enacting policies that put students at risk and violate the Maine Human Rights act, will you stand with trans students? Yeah. If you see ICE disappearing people in the streets, will you get in the way? Yes. If you are charged with enforcing any part of the President's unlawful executive orders, will you resist? Yes. If your neighbor needs a place to Hide. Will you hide them? Yes. And right now, as the Maine legislature is trying to scapegoat transgender student athletes bargaining long held civil rights away in hopes that it will save Maine federal funding, will you show up for them and say that our human rights are. Let me explain this to you like you're a piece of shit. If you voted for that man, you are a bad person and you're dumb. Those are the two immediate facts about you. Whatever feminine rage is circulating in the collective right now is about to burn the old world to the ground. So if you are feeling the rise of your rage, be my guest. I just want to wish a happy Saturday to everyone except you Nazis. How quickly you became traitors to your country and decided that the Constitution doesn't mean shit to you. I can't wait for the day when you officially become Paris of this society. When you have realized you sold out everything for nothing. Because. Because eventually, one day, when you can't afford to keep your homes, you can't afford to feed your families, you can't afford to take care of yourself or, God forbid, someone in your family who gets sick because you don't have any assistance or health care, when you lose absolutely everything and you turn to community and realize you sold all of them out. You all are a disgusting stain on this country and you should be ashamed of yourselves. But you won't. Because the only thing fueling you is racism and bigotry. And. And I'm sure you'll all go to church this Sunday and pray to a God that you think if you talk to one of them, they will tell you they believe things that aren't true. Trump is taking away Social Security and Medicaid. They've eliminated the national center for Missing and Exploited Children. They've eliminated the Department of Education. They're disappearing people off the streets and sending them to concentration camps. Podcast listeners, a picture from Twitter comparing a concentration camp to mass deportations. The truth doesn't even seem to matter and hasn't for a long time now. Hyperbole is all because they have nothing left to sell, no vision for America's future. Who would they be if they weren't the people hunting Donald Trump? They do not know they've destroyed themselves trying to destroy him. The headlines fed to them supercharge their rage. These are mostly educated white women in real life, but in their fantastical imaginings of their cosplay resistance, they are warrior protectors of every oppressed group. It's all coming true. Doomsday is here. They don't like the word hysteria because it harkens back to the dark ages when women's mental health issues were being mislabeled that way. It's the word. It's always the word. They felt like no one could hear them scream. Out of that eternal frustration came the feminist movement, a movement now dead in its tracks. It's the word hysteria. Like the word woke, like the word illegal, like the word woman, like the word homeless, like the word fat. Change the word, change reality. These white women can't be feminists anymore because that makes them white feminists or Karens. They hate those words too. They must always defer, apologize, step back, decenter themselves and elevate women of color who matter more. They can't be feminists because then they are terfs. They must quietly go along with biological men creaming women in sports, chess, even Jeopardy. All the while putting on a happy face and repeating trans women are women. They can't protect girls anymore because what are girls anyway? They can't even protect their unborn babies because those are unwanted invaders, oppressors who threaten their rights. What is left for these women? Hysteria. The whole thing has come full circle and now the American people have become the equivalent of the 1950s husband who leaves for a pack of cigarettes and never comes back. The hysteria cycles through their feedback loops and algorithms on Facebook, TikTok X and probably Blue sky, although I'm too afraid to look. I can only imagine what so many like minded people stuck inside that bubble within a bubble are saying to each other with so little critical thinking allowed inside. Crazy drives the Democrats because white women drive the Democrats. They're the most invested, the most reliable donors and they scream the loudest. See this? White women with at least a college degree. The only group of white voters that really kind of is on the left politically aligned with progressive causes. Democratic politics. Give you an example here is that DEI question, excuse me, right here, that we asked about in our poll. We had two big statements. We read to voters, basically, do you want to continue DEI programs or do you think they should be ended? And again, look at this divide here. White men no degree end it. White men with a degree end it, they say. White women no degree end it, they say by double digits. And then white women with a college degree, completely different. By a nearly 40 point margin, they say to continue. Why do you think the whole thing comes down to Rachel Maddow and Jen Psaki on msnbc? They are the face of the Democrats now, the old guard and whatever is left of hetero men in the party are quietly trying to reintroduce the idea of the progressive moderate. Bill Maher laments. Where is our version of Donald Trump? Rahm Emanuel's name keeps popping up. Steve Bannon suggested only Stephen A. Smith could come close to defeating MAGA with or without Bannon's wild pitch for Trump's third term. Is there any Democrat who scares you that he could be running against? Because I guess if we allow that, it could be Obama. Absolutely. I think that'd be great. Alien versus Predator. Let's do it. President Trump already said. President. President Trump. President Trump already said. Kind of a worse insult to Trump. If you want. If you want to bring. If you want to bring President Obama, who I think has lost his fastball, but go ahead and bring him. Okay. Okay. Right now, all the governors you have. I don't think everybody will stand up to Trump. You're going to have to run someone like a Stephen A. Smith or someone in your kind of celebrity category. That'll be the Democratic nominee that would have the best shot and President Trump. But I think he's unbeatable. I think he's unbeatable because the coalition, the coalition that he's built is only going to get bigger because he's bringing back American manufacturing jobs to working class people. And the Democratic Party abandoned working class people for the credentialed class that you talk about all the time. And you can't cosplay being a populist. No, you're right. If you're not prepared to take hard things like that like the. But the old guard is now being directly challenged by Peter Pan the ascendant, who was coming out guns blazing. Or should we say gun control blazing? Or should we say finding his lost shadow? But how did Nana get your shadow? Peter jumped at me the other night at the window. What were you doing there? I came to listen to the stories. My stories. But they're all about you. Of course. That's why I like them. I tell them to the Lost Boys. The Lost Boys. Oh, I remember. They're your men. David Hogg is now prepared to go full revolutionary Disney style in an attempt to revive the corpse that is the Democratic Party. He's prepared to primary all of those stodgy and conventional Democrats to breathe new life into the status quo. It's not going well. And we lost voting shares with every single demographic except predominantly older voters and highly educated voters. That is a huge problem. And what we're trying to do here is not just focus on primaries where there's potentially an older incumbent, but more than anything an ineffective person in that position and replace them with a generational leader to build the future of our party. But, but when you're talking about using the power of the dnc, whatever power it has, not very much, but you're using that. And we are paying Democratic donors paying David Halt salary, they're paying David Halt's staff and he wants to run against other Democrats. Well, that's America. Run against who you want to, but don't resign your position. Have guts, man. I don't think these people get it. I don't think they ever will get it. And I've said this before and I'll say it now, I think we ought to think about just having a schism. That is what primaries are for. So there's a kind of a double edged sword here. Is that really the role of the Vice chairman of the DNC to encourage that versus have people file, have people run for offices if they want to challenge people, etc. That can happen. Now you have a 24 hours in a day. I have 24 hours in a day. My time is usually figuring out how to win elections where Democrats can beat Republicans. You want to spend your time in your 24 hours figuring out how Democrats can beat Democrats. That's a choice you make in your schedule, in your day. The well known Democratic strategist James Carville said in response to this announcement of this plan that you have to primary Democrats. He said that the DNC should sue you and called you, quote, a contemptible little twerp. What is your reaction to that? Right, that is my reaction. I would also say James Carville has not won an election since before I was born. I think it's time to have new leaders in our party that are ready to meet this moment. Because a lot of the people that are most critical of this plan are the same ones that had $2 billion to win an election and still lost. So I think the experts can save it because it's time for some new ideas. The problem for the Democrats now is the same problem they had in 2016. They should be soul searching, not protesting, not throwing endless hissy fits and temper tantrums at everything Trump is doing. They should ask themselves, what kind of America do we want? Or more importantly, what kind of America do the American people want? But the crazy drives the party and they can't get over Trump, not since he robbed them of Hillary's win. And so for 10 years, that's all the Democrats have done. Fight Trump the wiser, older Democrats know if you scare Americans, you'll be on the losing side of elections for a while. They don't want to go back to the dark days of Eugene McCarthy or George McGovern. And yet can they really pivot to the bland days of Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis? By the time 1992 rolled around, they finally had a winner in Bill Clinton. But they kissed a lot of frogs. They were more than ready to compromise. Bimbo eruptions were nothing compared to zero charisma. He wasn't exactly jfk, but he wasn't Walter Mondale either. The answer won't be easy. What's happening now is the dismantling of the America they built, the America they wanted us all to want. But we didn't because it was too crazy. It was the death of the American dream. It was a brand new population of slave labor because they insist Americans won't do those jobs. So let them eat fentanyl. They think the Christian right are the real threat because they read the Bible and believe in Jesus Christ and that life begins at conception. The crazy on the left believes toddlers can choose their gender. They believe breasts should be sliced off of the chests of young girls. And there's nothing wrong with that because then these women can matter because they are the brave warriors fighting the good fight. Here is a video of trans tiktokers. This boy just got top surgery, and he's sitting there, Boobless. I'm sitting here, Boobless. And I want to tell you about the journey so far. He goes under for surgery. Hours later, they bring me. They say, he's ready. He can see you. I go to the recovery room, and his surgeon is crouched over him and there's blood just pouring out of his scars. It's disgusting. And they say, we have to take him back in. And I'm like, okay. His right boob wasn't going out without a fight. A blood vessel popped. There was blood everywhere. They had to put him back under and fix it up. Unfortunately, we lost his armpit hair in the process. Only his right armpit. The other one did not get shaved. I will never understand why people care so deeply about who is using which bathroom. My girlfriend. We're going to a wine castle. And we sat down for our tasting. And at first they were just very rude and didn't really answer our questions and we didn't really feel welcome. Our server said, yes, sir when I was asking some questions, and I said, oh, no, no, no, I'm actually not a sir. And instead of apologizing or I don't know what else you would do other than apologize. They just walked away. Did not acknowledge what I said, just walked away. You saw the server, like, whispering to a manager, and a few minutes later the manager came over in a really big smile, not acknowledging at all that the misgender had happened. And I say, hey, look, the last person, they misgendered me. And that really hurt. And they just walked away. And the manager said, oh, well, some people just aren't as progressive as you. And then they gave us a nice little chocolate that suggested they wanted our money but didn't want to say sorry. So we left and got a full refund. It's one thing to get misgendered and then get an apology, but it's another thing to get misgendered and then be told that it's okay and not to worry about it. And here's a chocolate. Womanhood does not exist without trans women. I'll say that again. Womanhood does not exist without trans women. Without trans women, womanhood is not a choice. Gender becomes a prison. Okay? A cage constructed of oppressive binaries, designed by white supremacy and built by the patriarchy and facilitated by CIS white women and trans women had previously busted down the doors to those cages and released us to a world of autonomy and opportunity and choice. And there is no limit to the amount of rights and privileges that trans women have fought for and and afforded us. Furthermore, nobody respects values, understands, or embodies womanhood more than trans women. Another way of explaining non binary. If I had to pick one of the traditional binary gender choices, I make way more sense as a woman than a man. Like 75% feminine natural characteristics. So I switched across government and culture. They wanted us to want what they wanted, but America didn't, and the left decided they would not let the country pull away and evolve. So it's driven them crazy and now they don't seem to have any anchor to hold them in place. It isn't just that they align themselves behind the worst people and make heroes of men who slap or beat women, or that they ignore the sex offenders exploiting the transgender movement, or that they only care about mass shootings if the doer is a white guy. It's also that they all must fall in line. Podcast listener is a headline from the New York Post. New York City woman who left swastika brick on cybertruck is a woke therapist who blamed Elon Musk for tantrum Utopias disrupted. The first time I realized there was something very wrong with The Democrats was when they forced Al Franken out with no due process. The most prominent senators in the party participated. Chuck Schumer, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. The party that pretends to be for due process didn't much care about it back then. Throughout the MeToo movement and for years after that. For them, it was once accused forever guilty. Due process just got in the way. I was horrified. I protested as loudly as I could, but nothing I said seemed to matter. What was happening, I wondered. I would find out over the next four years as I witnessed the crazy and the hysteria consume the party and all of the cultural, political and corporate institutions it dominated. It hit every industry from movies to the Oscars to the book world and even poetry. The crazy got into government and it's still there. It's inside the heads of aoc, Eric Swalwell, Cory Booker, Chris Murphy and Elizabeth Warren. Even the so called normal ones. Even Al Franken now Sheldon Whitehouse, Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, J.B. pritzker, Gavin Newsom and even George Clooney's guy, Wes Moore. All interchangeable. Their brand is toxic because they are all crazy. Because they have no choice but to push the insane policies Americans just rejected. Trump's second win should have been all they needed to know to finally get it. But all that seemed to do has kicked the crazy into yet another gear. Mass formation psychosis in 2020, with the already primed and ready mass hysteria during Trump's first term colliding with mass panic from COVID something snapped on the left. It seemed to ignite what Matthias Desmet calls mass formation. Someone in the grip of mass formation becomes willing to radically self sacrifice. It is as if people are not aware anymore of their own individual interests. It makes people radically intolerant for dissonant voices, for people who think differently, even if it concerns their own children or their own parents. Mass formation is the psychological basis of totalitarianism. In a classical dictatorship, there's just like people are just scared of a small group of people. The dictatorial regime and the totalitarian state. You have a completely different mechanic. First, the emergence of this mass formation is a group of people, usually 20 to 30% of the people who fanatically believe in an ideology, in a narrative, and who are willing to self sacrifice completely for the sake of that ideology. And if under these conditions, certain leaders use the masses to seize control of society, you have the emergence of a totalitarian state. So that's why it is so important to understand the mechanism of mass formation, like what makes people so blind. It is as if our society is falling apart in elementary particles, is atomizing. It is as if loneliness is spreading everywhere. In ancient times, people had to meet physically to form a mass. Now people can sit isolated in the living rooms and form a mass, because they are all infused with the same narratives, mental representations through the mass media. These lonely masses last much longer, can be much better controlled. Physical masses are very unpredictable. Lonely masses can be perfectly controlled through propaganda and last much longer. Once people are disconnected and lonely, they will typically start to struggle with lack of meaning making and lack of purpose in life. That's spontaneously because as a human being, you have a spontaneous experience that your life makes sense, that your life has a purpose. Every time you see that you as a human being, has an effect on someone else. If you see, to use the word of lavinage, that you have an effect on the face of the other, that the other reacts to you, you will have the feeling that your life makes sense, that you truly exist for someone else. If someone feels completely disconnected and is lonely, that spontaneous experience of meaning making doesn't emerge anymore. If you are anxious and you don't know what you're anxious for, you feel completely out of control. Of course you're anxious and you don't see what you're anxious for. So you cannot control your object of anxiety. When many people are in this state, propaganda is extremely efficacious. Just because if someone disseminates a narrative through the mass media, indicating an object of anxiety and providing a strategy to deal with that object of anxiety, something very specific might happen. All this anxiety that is floating in the social air might at once connect to the object of anxiety in the narrative. And people will be willing to do everything to control that object of anxiety, Meaning that a mass emerges not because individuals connect to another individual. A mass emerges because each individual separately connects to the collective ideal. If you are in a group, you will very soon feel that a certain consensus arises and a certain pressure to speak in a certain way. That means, like the group will share a common ideal image. And everyone is supposed to behave according to this ideal image. And that's where truth disappears. And the one who takes that responsibility, who finds the courage to put himself in that vulnerable position to speak the truth, will inevitably lose something in the world of appearances. Inevitably, because by definition, truth is this kind of speech which destroys appearances and delusions. So inevitably, when you speak the truth, you will lose something in the world of appearances, but you will win something in the Real world, your soul will get stronger, your ego will get weaker and your soul will get stronger. That's what it means to speak the truth. You have to be grateful for the fact that we exist, but not at no matter what price. There is something that is even more important and being loyal to the first and foremost ethical principle, to speak in a sincere way is one of these things. I think that is more important than conforming to social ideal images. Robert Malone then added the word psychosis, but it was a diagnosis most weren't ready for, that killed the messenger, which is that this comes from basically European intellectual inquiry into what the heck happened in Germany in the 20s and 30s. Very intelligent, highly educated population, and they went barking mad. And how did that happen? The answer is mass formation psychosis. When you have a society that has become decoupled from each other and has free floating anxiety in a sense that things don't make sense, we can't understand it, and then their attention gets focused by a leader or series of events on one small point. Just like hypnosis, they literally become hypnotized and can be led anywhere. And one of the aspects of that phenomena is the people that they identify as their leaders, the ones typically that come in and say, you have this pain and I can solve it for you, I and I alone, okay, can fix this problem for you. Then they will lead, they will follow that person through. It doesn't matter whether they lie to him or whatever. The data are irrelevant. And furthermore, anybody who questions that narrative is to be immediately attacked. They are the other. This is central to mass formation psychosis and this is what has happened. We had all those conditions, you remember back before 2019, everybody was complaining, the world doesn't make sense, blah blah blah, and we're all isolated from each other. I was part of it too, until I wasn't. I couldn't go along with the part where you start turning on your friends, neighbors, family and fellow Americans. I know mass formation can hit any group. It's not isolated to the left. People will say MAGA is an example of that, but it isn't true. The right wasn't traumatized like the left was. They're happy people who mostly laugh at the crazy libs. There is also much dissent allowed with many taking the opposing view. And that is the only cure for mass formation. Speak sincerely, tell the truth, and most of all be willing to dissent from the group. Their mass formation has taken them to very strange places, which has many of us scratching our heads as we watch them lose their minds. By the hundreds of thousands over the current thing. The case of Kilmar Abrigo Garcia has all of them out in force, aligned in common purpose to make a hero and a martyr out of Garcia. Marches, protests, endless TikTok videos. Now remember, folks, if they can disappear anyone in 48 hours, they can disappear you in 48 hours. Keep fighting. So the White House has officially said that they are not bringing Abrego Garcia home. Abrego Garcia is not coming home. Hey, Republican males, why are you so intimidated by Abrigo Garcia? Good morning, America. As we descend rapidly into a fascist state that rivals that of 1930s Germany, it is important to remember that what the Trump administration is doing right now is not deportation. This is kidnapping and human trafficking. It is so awesome that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is alive and that he was able to talk to Senator Van Hollen. Thank you, Senator, for actually doing something, for going there and letting the world see that Garcia is still alive. If you're a parent and you say that you would do anything for your kids, yet you endorse the mass deportations of people coming here, whether it's illegal or not, to offer their children a better life and to escape whatever hell they were living in before then, you would not do anything for your child. And then you see them one by one, all in alignment on social media for podcast listeners, Democrats on Twitter, like Amy Klobuchar posting about Senator Van Hollen's trip to El Salvador. But it is easy for us outside the bubble to recognize that there is something more going on here than just protecting Trump's mass deportations. Van Holland posted a picture of him sitting with Abrego Garcia at a table. I see these pictures tonight, and I think, boy, the party of women is really covering itself in glory tonight. I mean, I don't understand why the American left falls in love with the worst people. You've got a gang banging, human trafficking, wife beating, illegal alien, and a United States senator in a ludicrous display of energy is in El Salvador having my ties and Yahtzee. I do not get it. I do not understand why the left takes on the other part of this. I don't get it. I think he has an adjudicated deportation order. And you have Democrat public officials falling all over themselves trying to get him back here without thinking through the next step, which is he's literally going to be deported somewhere else. But he did have due process. Everything we know about him is documented because he did go through the court systems. He was stopped for trafficking his wife did file these domestic violence charges against him. He was arrested with Ms. 13 members with a roll of cash that had the eyes and the ears and the mouths of the presidents erased, which is an MS.13 markings. This is all non dispute American. Looking at this case, a lot of conflicting information. Okay, I believe some. I don't believe an illegal alien came here in 2011 and somehow in 2025 he's still here after having been through the court system, after having been arrested with lots of people in his car, after having all this evidence he just did. And now everybody's mad about it. Take advantage of our system for 14 years. There is no such thing as a sane Democrat because they aren't fighting for anything but are fighting to preserve the power they once had. They have no choice but to sell to the American people that they care more about illegal immigrants and biological men competing against women in sports. They care more about free trade. They have to sell us exactly what we do not want because they know no other way to undo the crazy. To find their way back to sanity. They would have to admit everything they thought was real wasn't. They would have to recognize that they were caught up in a mass delusion. But we know they won't. Cory Booker had to amplify the crazy. AOC takes a bath in it. David Hogg shouts it from the rooftops. The crazy, like the cream, will rise to the top. Thank you for listening to my podcast sashastone.substack.com and if you like this podcast, please consider leaving a review. And remember to thine own self be true. And when you're out there without care. Yeah, I was out of town but it wasn't because I didn't mind I just knew too much crazy that make me crazy and all that you are the time of your life but think twice that's my only advice Come on now who do you, who do you, who do you think you are? Bless your soul. You really think you're in control? Well, I think you're crazy I think you're crazy I like a just like me My heroes have the heart to lose their lives I don't live and all I remember is thinking I want to be like them Never since I was little Ever since I was little it looked like fun and the snow going to I've come and I'll die when I'm done But maybe I'm crazy maybe you sa.