"The U.S. Government Is Waging Psychological War on Its Citizens: Inside the Deep State’s PsyOps Machine" (Excerpt)

"The U.S. Government Is Waging Psychological War on Its Citizens: 

Inside the Deep State’s PsyOps Machine"

by John & Nisha Whitehead

Excerpt: “Have you ever wondered who’s pulling the strings? Anything we touch is a weapon. We can deceive, persuade, change, influence, inspire. We come in many forms. We are everywhere.” -  U.S. Army Psychological Operations recruitment video.

From viral memes to military-grade influence operations, the government is waging a full-spectrum psychological war - not against foreign enemies but against its own citizens. The goal? Compliance. Control. Conformity. The battlefield is no longer physical - it is psychological - and the American people are the targets. From AI-manipulated narratives and National Guard psyops to loyalty scorecards for businesses, the Deep State’s war on truth and independent thought is no longer covert. It is coordinated, calculated, and by design.

Yet while both major parties—long in service to the Deep State—have weaponized mass communication to shape public opinion, the Trump administration is elevating it into a new art form that combines meme warfare, influencer psyops, and viral digital content to control narratives and manufacture consensus. In doing so, President Trump and his influencers are capitalizing on a propaganda system long cultivated by the security-industrial complex. What we’re witnessing is not just propaganda. It is psychological warfare.

Psychological warfare, as defined by the Rand Corporation, “involves the planned use of propaganda and other psychological operations to influence the opinions, emotions, attitudes, and behavior of opposition groups.” Today, those “opposition groups” include the American public. For years, the government has been bombarding the citizenry with propaganda and psychological operations aimed at conditioning us to be compliant, easily manipulated and supportive of the police state’s growing domestic and global power.

The government is so confident in its Orwellian powers of manipulation that it’s taken to bragging about them. For example, the U.S. Army’s 4th Psychological Operations Group, the branch of the military responsible for psychological warfare, released a recruiting video that touts its efforts to pull the strings, turn everything they touch into a weapon, be everywhere, deceive, persuade, change, influence, and inspire.

This is the danger that lurks in plain sight: a government so immersed in the art of mind manipulation that it no longer sees its citizens as individuals, but as targets. Of all the weapons in the government’s vast arsenal, psychological warfare may be the most insidious."

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- https://www.rutherford.org/