James Giago Davies: The Manchurian Candidates in the White House

Monday, October 7, 2019  

In 1959, Richard Condon, known for his insightful, gripping political thrillers, wrote a book called the Manchurian Candidate. The plot revolved around a brainwashed Korean vet, captured by the communists and reprogrammed, who then runs for the presidency of the United States.

At the time, this was considered fantastic fiction, and people subsequently assumed that brainwashing must involve intricate psychological and chemical alterations, and many was the study that proved such alterations simply that, fantastic fiction.

But sometimes a fictional concept, if tweaked critically by practical reality, provides a genuine strategy, in this case: to recruit and corrupt real people using their real life and real identity to willingly become self-motivated Manchurian candidates.

Proof of such recruitment would be hard to come by, and so the following two people are offered as prime examples of where that strategy could yield heretofore unimaginable results.

You are a college student of reasonable intelligence and industry and you and your friends come up with a better idea, Facebook, over the first idea, My Space. Odds are nothing would ever happen for you and your idea but you are identified and targeted by a group with one purpose: to assist you in actualizing your idea, to deftly, and discreetly, block competition and opposition, until the spark of your idea starts to flame.

One day, they knock on your door, sit you at a table, and explain that your idea has flamed with their help, and that it snuffs out with their opposition. Your choice is simple, you go back to being a college student with pimples and big ideas who has trouble finding a girlfriend, or you sign on to the project, which eventuates in your unprecedented social media success, making you a billionaire and a worldwide celebrity. They want no piece of the action, none of your money, all they want is for you to do what they ask, when they ask you to do it, and they assure you that in the asking, there will be no hardship or ethical discomfort.

But when they ask, they are not really asking, and you don’t really have a choice. They control your social media phenomena, not you, but since you reap all the rewards for being the one who controls it, you agree to the arrangement.

One of their first targets happened a decade before they approached the college student. This target delivered an even greater contribution. You are an Ivy League educated, idealistic lawyer working as a community organizer in Chicago.

You have an African name with Muslim association, and there seems no chance you can ever use your handsome face and charming articulation to overcome that deficit. But your minor political aspirations always meet with success, and one day you are asked to sit down by a mentor you trust. Some men explain that your success has been orchestrated, and modest as it is, it can eventuate in the US Senate, and ultimately, the presidency.

James Giago Davies is an enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota tribe. He can be reached at skindiesel@msn.com

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