David Risselada is a fresh new voice in conservative publications. He has written a thought-provoking book which should be read by all Americans who are concerned about the direction our country is taking.
David L. Goetsch,
author of Liberal Tyranny in Higher Education
David has been contributing insightful material to Sons of Liberty Media for more than five years. He has great insight into the brainwashing methods used by the left to implement their agenda and can articulate it well.
Tim Brown, Editor, Writer,
Sons of Liberty Media
Without a Shot Indeed
Inducing Compliance to Tyranny Through
Conditioning and Persuasion
David Risselada
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Copyright 2021, David Risselada
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank my wife Deborah, for her patience and hours spent listening to each chapter as I read it to her over and over. My professors at Liberty University for showing me every college is not a lost cause. Tim Brown, Bradlee Dean, David Goetsch and Fred Deruvo for supporting my writing, and everyone else who told me to get my butt up and keep going when I was ready to sit down a while.
T his book will examine the psychological methods employed by the political left to change America from a free republic to a socialist dictatorship. The material presented is the culmination of a decade of study, motivated by an understanding the communists have developed a sophisticated knowledge of human behavior.
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev proudly proclaimed the U.S. would fall without a shot being fired because of the gullibility of the American citizen. He was able to say this because the communists had mastered the arts of behavioral manipulation and persuasion.
The average American remains blissfully unaware of the methodologies being employed against them through the media, the education system and other major institutions. They do not know the extent to which our behaviors, reactions and attitudes are studied for the purpose of formulating strategies and planning agendas.
Through the examination of psychological theories like operant conditioning, education techniques like critical theory and how a science of human behavior was developed through the theory of evolution; this book will examine the conditioning processes that have brought us to the point where people are willingly complying with tyrannical dictates.
If there is one thing to take away from this book it is the knowledge that man is viewed through the lens of a godless science, and it is believed our thoughts and behaviors can be guided and shaped to accept the communist agenda. These conclusions are reached based on simple observations of how we react to the stimuli they feed us. By the end of the book the reader will have a firm understanding of what the powers that be understand about human behavior and how to manipulate it to their ends.
Americans are marching to the drumbeat of their own enslavement when it comes to Covid-19 and the enforced wearing of facemasks. The chapters in this book go through the steps of how our behaviors were manipulated and our thoughts controlled, to the point where most of us willingly comply with tyranny. Most people are not even stopping to ask themselves why they are being forced to wear a mask, or distance themselves from loved ones. They simply comply because they do not know what else to do. They are simply responding to a stimulus, fed to them by people seeking to change their behaviors.
This book was originally accepted by Liberty Hill publishers at the end of December 2020. Towards the end of January, they sent me the first initial review and recommended edits where they said the following
Through a powerful look at the changes taking place in the culture and society of the United States, the author takes readers on a journey to discovering the truth behind these changes and how political agenda is leading to the termination of American freedoms. With excellent insight and applicable teaching, Without a Shot Indeed: Inducing Compliance to Tyranny encourages readers to open their eyes to the reality of America in the postmodern age, inspiring Americans to fight for the preservation of their freedoms. (Liberty Hill Publishers)
I was thrilled, of course, and feeling good about the project. After making the recommended edits, however, they contacted me and said it would be inappropriate for them to publish it because of its controversial nature. For a moment, I prided myself for having a book that was deemed too controversial. How funny.
I awoke this morning to a dream so strange.
I dreamt the world was different, it somehow had changed.
Just how glorious can this beautiful world be?
You must start by being, the change you wish to see.
C hange. It is something the whole world longs for yet, very few take any action to affect. In recent years, our country has been going through major changes. Mostly driven by the hard-political left who, for some reason, view our nation as illegitimate and in need of a makeover. They have all but admitted their end goal is the transformation of America as a beacon of liberty and individualism, to just another collectivist nation in a global governing body.
People on the left believe collectivism represents a Utopian paradise where the government can guarantee the equality of outcomes; and wealth, (in some type of fairytale fashion) is evenly distributed across the board. It does not matter how many times you show them the historical failures of collectivist societies; they remain convinced America needs to change. They are committed to action and willing to do anything to achieve their goal.
The political right, on the other hand, has largely sat back believing the type of change the left seeks will never happen. They believe the constitution protects our individual rights, therefore, action on our part is not needed. Conservatives love America and, for the most part, believe success can be found in the individual pursuit of happiness. Where they have failed is not realizing the lengths their political opponents are willing to go to bring about the change they wish to see.
The worldviews which govern the political philosophies of conservatives and liberals are vastly different. So different in fact, the right has a hard time understanding the lefts approach because it is so alien to conservative thinking. Being mostly Christian, the American right is governed by a universal morality which dictates the way we view right and wrong.
Leftists who seek to transform our nation have adopted an ends justify the means mentality towards change. They do not share in the Christian worldview and tend to cling to a Darwinian explanation of mankinds origins. Darwin, of course, founded the theory of evolution, which has become the basis of scientific education in America. Christianity and Darwinism are two distinctly different cultural perspectives which are not compatible. Darwin believed human beings have no soul and were just another animal whose existence was without significant meaning. There is no universal morality defining right and wrong or what is acceptable behavior. This is the basis of the ends justifying the means mentality.
