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[Opinion] Why do some people have influence over others?

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Durward

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As a foundation, I trained many decades ago in riot control with the military police. During that training, we were taught to look for the instigator, the influencer, and take them out of the situation. The strange part was that, as soon as you find the right instigator and remove them, the crowds stop rioting, lose momentum, and disperse, as if the spell has been lifted. Even stranger is when you interview people who were violent a few minutes ago and they have no clue why they reacted like they did, and you find out it is the farthest thing from their usual personality.
Later in life, I saw a psychology report on herd poisoning, herd intoxication, and how groups, whether on the street, or in a religious setting, will react to specific and particular people as if they lose control of their own minds. So mind control and manipulation is a known thing... ok then.
It made it very clear that some people are manipulators and mind controllers, and can take over and steer large groups, and sometimes entire populations, with nonsense that they would never agree to, and find revolting when free of this manipulation and control.
The tragedy is that so many of these energy manipulators are bad to the core, rotten people, sociopaths and psychopaths, yet those manipulated don't even see this and don't seem to be able to resist this control.
I like to think that the energy manipulators would have been knights in ancient times, able to motivate other people to fight to their own deaths for whatever cause. Someone to rally around without really knowing what it is that draws you in and makes you jump when they say jump.
It is a very strong form of energy manipulation, and quite magical when you witness it.

I have also noticed that some of us are exempt from this form of lemming mind control, and we don't go with the crowd or follow the leader.

Anyone experience or witness this themselves?
 
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