I swear I’m not Insurrection Barbie
When Barack Obama ascended to power in 2008, he promised to unite America. But behind the charisma and soaring rhetoric was a calculated project to move the Democratic Party sharply to the left, not only in policy, but in how truth, loyalty, and dissent were managed. With strategic minds like David Axelrod and Ben Rhodes, Obama’s inner circle weaponized media, cultural institutions, and emotion to create what Rhodes openly called an echo chamber, a self-reinforcing permission structure that conditioned what people believed was acceptable to think.
This wasn't persuasion through logic. It was manipulation through emotion.
Rhodes and Axelrod understood a core truth about human nature: emotion moves faster than logic……