Daniel Balan

Right now all my friends and family have been sold on the populist bandwagon. I'm in the center left politics wise. And when it comes to voting in an election, I can't convince anyone to vote for the most spirally developed candidate. As a Romanian, we had elections on 24 November 2024, that the Constitutional Court cancelled, In Romania there is a 2 round election system. If from all the candidates no one gets get in the first round 50%+1 of the votes then the elections progress in the second round where it is a grand finale between the first 2 placed candidates. And the court forfeited the elections because a populist candidate Calin Georgescu whom is a far right populist(Imagine Trump on steroids) won the elections. The court used the Russian Interference reason for cancelling the elections. And we have to redo the elections on May 2025. But the thing is that this candidate used short form tik toks to stir the most sympathy and in those tik toks he basically said everything Trump says. Leo once said in a blog post that we should become a candle. By that meaning that we should not sit passively and allow devilry, but we should what is in our power to shed light in the places that have become cloaked in the darkness. The question is, How do I convince someone to vote for a centrist left candidate, here there was a lady like Kamala Harris, very hollow and sometimes she is unprepared on geopolitical minutiae, but she is very kind hearted and as a current mayor of a small city she transformed that city from the ground up in a positive way. But my friends tell me that she is a "bimbo" and "Stupid" and that she is a "marionette of Soros and Ursula von der Leyen" and that she will make everyone gay and transgender" They prefer this ultra degenerate Trump like figure because he promises BS populist greatness. Exactly like Trump but far more worse. You can't even imagine how "Great" Trump is compared to this guy. I couldn't convince even my parents to vote against this lunatic, they said that she is weak and pathetic and she is not with the Church. Therefore they loved this Trump like guy because all the priests were lobbying for him and that he said the word God every 10 words. Please I feel powerless and I have no counter arguments against people that are mesmerized by RW populists. I feel like I could spent 10 days straight trying to explain that this lady was a good choice and they'd still dismiss my points by saying that I've been paid by woke globalists to do lobbying for this lady. If @Leo Gura sees this I would like him to do a blog posts on how to counter this group think madness. How do you take one away from the group think? How do I get someone out of this Right Wing ideology? I feel so powerless..

@Thought Art We are all wrong. Yet some are more wrong than others. And even yet, everyone is right when it comes to their own survival. What makes one survive is therefore correct from their POV.

@Alexop Thanks for the responses! It made me very happy to share thoughts with you! Thank you for the advice!

Alekseev! To me he is the @Leo Gura of music!

Please share here the track that you are currently listening on repeat. I'll start with this:

But could you answer me why I subconsciously decided to adopt your political rhetoric instead that of Alex Jones and Joe Rogan? Why a stage red individual as myself would have decided that your reasoning is more truthful and developed than that of the ones that spread RW propaganda. If you could answer me that, maybe we would find the reason why the average Joe has decided to view as authority the likes of Jones and Musk instead of people like you.

I don't understand. What's this supposed to mean?

Cheers Brother! So happy seeing fellow countrymen on the forum. I've also been to Germany for work, to the Netherlands and Italy. And I've come to the conclusion that as the most Christian nation in Europe, we are one of the most wicked, corrupt, evil and barbaric people in Europe. Right now I have 0 friends. When I was younger I had maybe over 50 friends, but as I started to grow up and mature, I cut ties with everyone. Man the levels of evil and selfishness here is through the roof. Here if you don't have balls and if people don't fear you physically you are eaten alive. If there would be a picture in the dictionary for the expression "Dog eats dog" it would have been a picture of Romania. You said people are stage blue... No friend. Maybe in the cities, I live in the rural areas and here at best people are red. When I've watched the stage red video, in my mind as Leo was speaking I was saying: That exact behaviour is resembling my co-workers, my parents, my relatives, my friends, our politicians and so on. I think Romania is far from a blue center of gravity. Here people are even exhibiting strong stage purple behaviour coupled with the stage red which In my book defines us as a nation, also coupled with a outer layer of stage blue coating. After all there was a reason why someone like Andrew Tate choose to come here to run his businesses.

Spot on. I am mature enough to realize that I am a sheep, The only reason I have the political agenda that I have is because of Leo! I am not fooling myself into thinking that I know the truth. The only reason I hate Trumpism is because of Leo said so. I am 100% certain that if Leo had sided with Trump and RW populism I would have done the same. The reason being that I realize that I am stupid AF and I recognized Leo's mind as being light years ahead of mine developmental wise. I admit that if I was left on my own I may have very well been captured by the group think. But I've been lucky to encounter along the way people way smarter than I am. I just chose to be brainwashed by Leo, instead of Joe Rogan and Alex Jones. That is the only difference between me and the average Joe.

Probably the best answer is to stop caring about politics, just to mind my own business. At the end of the day it is each and every ones responsibility to behave maturely! It ain't my job to try to educate people, even if those people are my parents.

I feel like I don't do enough! I feel that my lack of action is directly impacting the success of the devils that rule the masses with their alternative sources of media. People are always influenced by someone, there is no such thing as independent thinking. I think that we all are influenced, some by higher consciousness sources some by lower and dysfunctional ones.

I totally agree with you. But when everyone thinks a corrupt devil is the Messiah and are queueing in line to vote for him, I feel like it is my duty to shed light onto their ignorance. I have no side! All that is bothering me is that powerful people have gathered behind a devil, and via alternative media have brainwashed everyone I know. They will win regardless of my involvement, I want to know how can I break this magic spell that seems to have hypnotized the people. Me personally I just want to know how to prevent my children, my wife, and my parents from being hypnotized. Group think is hypnosis and I came to the conclusion that I am powerless to fight it when it comes to my close ones.

Maybe even though 2 brothers have the same genetic baggage, they don't stand on equal footing when it comes to cognitive development, I do believe that cognitive development can only be self created! It cannot be genetically inherited. But you have to be born with a certain spark in your mind to be initially drawn to knowledge.

Yes but why I was drawn to Leo and many others like him(Daniel Schmachtenberger and many others) in the first place? I grew up among pure stage red and blue Christian Fundamentalists, and I hate Christianity so much I despise that religion so much because I saw that it only gives business deals to those who lick the priests ass. It is the definition of corruption. Given the fact that I had a 10 out of 10 chance to be a maga lunatic, why did I end up to be drawn to people like Leo and many other beautiful minds? What in my psyche made me gravitate towards such ideals when given my environment I should have been the same as my peers in my local comunity? What are the difference in terms of psyche?

I am close minded too! I would never open my mind to Trumpism and RW populism. You couldn't convince me to vote for someone like Trump even if you would try to convince me 24/7. I don't buy this mindless BS. Because I understand that: RW is by far the most corrupt and egotistical of the two political sides. RW is solely concerned about maximizing survival damned be the costs. RW is only concerned by the welfare of the friends and family of those who rule, and the average citzen must suffer what they must for the ruler to enjoy what they can. RW is rotten with low educated individuals that have 0 knowledge of history, geopolitics, how governance works, and how economy works. Keep in mind that I don't side with the Left totally, there are problems there also, but to me Woke SJW's are light years ahead of Maga Christian Fundamentalists when it comes to cognitive development.

But why is that the case? Why someone as myself resonates with everything Leo said about politics, and someone like my father would dismiss him as a woke progresive, but agree with everything with something like Trump would say? Why some people are drown to the kinds of politics that Leo is advocating and why the vast majority is drawn to populist Maga lunatics ? I mean what is in the psyche of a maga lunatic that is so different in comparison to what is in Leo's psyche? This question always puzzles me.

It's not Leo per se, it is his way of explaining and putting things into perspective. Which I severely lack. To me each time I try to convince someone to drop the RW BS I get severely bullied by them for not conforming to the group think.

I don't want to force them to grow. I want them to understand that they have been brainwashed by right wing propaganda, those ideas in their head aren't theirs. Someone way smarter than them poured all that BS into their brain via TikTok. I want to be a candle of light to them, so that they see their path more clearly. They have an anti woke, anti globalist, Nationalist, right wing rhetoric, and I want to challenge them on that toxic ideology. But each time I try to show to them that they are wrong, I have no arguments, I can't find my words when dealing with them, I feel almost cornered because I am like the only one that has not jumped on that bandwagon. I feel like a rabbit in a jungle full of lions. But I feel like if @Leo Gura swapped places with me, he would be able to come to their senses. I feel like I had access to Leo's brain, I could make everyone in my proximity drop this right wing group think.

Personally I wouldn't leave. One's greatest chances for survival it's on the environment which is most familiar to the said individual. Plus if you have land or house that you own there, you are better off trying to protect what you have. But if you own nothing there, I would have tried to escape already. Do what is best for you. I just shared my opinion. Which could be very well wrong.

I love this so much. Such a great song for night time driving. I just can't get enough of it.

Don't make me to go search for every time Leo said that mankind is evil, that everyone is evil. And that everyone is the devil. Interpretation of what? When someone calls you a devil what is there to interpret? For real now. I've read the blog for over 5 years, and I watch almost daily for his comments on the forum, and for the most part that's what I recall of being said. I do agree with him though! But I have my lines and when crossed I react. All lines are arbitrary! And is not out of nothing. It is out of something which deeply bothers me! Claiming you value truth yet spread BS is a line I will not let anyone cross. Especially someone who I love and I deeply respect as Leo! Right now I'm broke AF but I can't wait to get a job and to throw some money at Leo! I've never contributed to him and I feel like a thief for not supporting him financially for such amount of value that he is giving us.

I had a dog that wherever I went he followed me, once I rode my bike for like 15 km away of my household and he was glued behind my bicycle for the whole trip, I wanted to enjoy nature! I didn't tell him to follow me, he did that always on his own volition.(Photo below ( at the place I wanted to reach for that trip)). I've never chained him to stay with me. He could very well choose to leave my household, but he never did! I took immense care of him until the day he died. Also I attach a photo with my cat! She could easily jump the fence and go wherever she wanted. And she did that all the time! But she never left my household for more than a day! If I am the enslaver.. why didn't those beings run the hell away from me? Guys I tell you! You are deluded and think you know everything about reality just because you took few shrooms or LSD or other psychedelics. Go live in the real world enjoy mother nature sober! That is the only psychedelic you need. With your contemplation and false assumptions you only cause confusion.

I bring that up? When someone tells you for 5 years now as I earlier recall, that you enslave others, you are the sole reason why there is suffering on earth, you create junk and pollute the planet, that you are the devil and so on. Now tell me, what other solution can those teachings lead to? Leo never encouraged anybody to do self harm or suicide, on the contrary, he always told us to not do that. But his teachings have always left me with an after taste in my mouth of killing myself. He made me realize that I am indeed the devil and I thank him for that, but you have to draw the line somewhere! To me he crossed the line when he said that having a pet is slavery for the pet. With that statement, he made me feel like I should stop breathing also! Because I am also enslaving the oxygen to make my body function... I honestly love him for everything he thought us but sometimes he is downright making me jump off a cliff. STOP THAT. At least if he was right, but in that case he is dead wrong.

How could your family having 2 dogs being slavery? You realize that if your family unleashed the dogs and stopped taking care of them they'd die? Dogs need water and food, unless you provide it to them they'd die.

The alternative is to do what? Kill myself so that I no longer inflict slavery towards other beings? Someone said sometime ago that Actualized.org teachings are suicidal. And I couldn't agree more. All this talk you guys do creates suicide as the only alternative to end all this devilry and slavery and suffering! Honestly, suicide is the only alternative if I'd follow your reasoning and bias. I die and I no longer kill a chicken to feed myself, I die so that I no longer provoke suffering towards other beings and so on. I'd suggest Leo, and everyone else on this forum to check yourselves before you speak. Raising animals ain't no slavery. The alternative is to starve to death. You have no clue of that because all you do is go to the supermarket when hungry.