What it did to businesses, to the minds of children, to everyone who was locked down and locked in – unable to attend funerals, weddings, and death beds.īut the raid on Mar-a-Lago very likely has red-pilled Americans even more, especially when you put it together with the authoritarianism during COVID, the suppression of speech, the silencing of dissent, and the dehumanization we all live with every day. Dividing the country the way it did into the compliant and the non-compliant. If they hadn’t already given up on the “establishment” by watching them crush Bernie Sanders like a bug in 2016, 2020 would do it. The only way to escape the media’s hold on the narrative is to cut it out completely, at least until you can see that there is another reality, and very often, the actual truth. Waking up to the media’s near-total collapse during the Trump years is a big part of being red-pilled. If it’s in the media, it must be true, right? How do you not trust it if it’s on NBC News or the Washington Post? How could it not be if every high-status person in America is going along with it? If your friends and family go along with it, if your social media feed confirms it every day with links. They simply believe that is the only reality.
No one who watches Joe and Mika or Rachel Maddow or reads the New York Times will ever be red-pilled. Sash Stone applies the metaphor in discussing American perceptions of socio-political reality in her substack article The Raid that Red-Pilled America. The terms refer to a scene in the 1999 film The Matrix.
The terms “red pill” and “blue pill” refer to a choice between the willingness to learn a potentially unsettling or life-changing truth by taking the red pill or remaining in contented ignorance with the blue pill.
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