How To Tell If Someone Is Controlled Opposition – Caitlin Johnstone (Danged good advice! - CL)

Every day in my article comments and social media I get people warning me that this or that journalist, activist or politician is “controlled opposition”, meaning someone who pretends to oppose the establishment while covertly serving it. These warnings usually come after I’ve shared or written about something a dissident figure has said or done, and are usually accompanied by an admonishment not to ever do so again lest I spread their malign influence. If you’ve been involved in any kind of anti-establishment activism for any length of time, you’ve probably encountered this yourself.

Paranoia pervades dissident circles of all sorts, and it’s not entirely without merit, since establishment infiltration of political movements is the norm, not the exception. This article by Truthout documents multiple instances in which movements like the 1968 Chicago DNC protest and Peter Camejo’s 1976 anti-establishment presidential campaign were so heavily infiltrated by opaque government agencies that one out of every six people involved in them were secretly working for the feds. This trend of infiltration is known to have continued into the current day with movements like Occupy and Black Lives Matter, and we’d be ignorant not to assume that this has been at least as rampant in online circles where people organize and disseminate ideas and information.

So it’s understandable that people are extremely vigilant about prominent figures in dissident circles, and it’s understandable that people feel paranoid. Over and over again we see shining anti-establishment movements fizzle or rendered impotent, often seemingly with the help of people we once trusted, and it’s hard not to get frustrated and become suspicious of anyone who starts shining bright in antiwar, leftist, or other dissident circles.

The trouble with this paranoia and suspicion is that it doesn’t seem to function with any kind of intelligence. I have received such “controlled opposition” warnings about pretty much every prominent dissident figure in the English-speaking world at one time or another, and if I believed them all there’d be no one in the world whose words I could share or write about, including my own. I myself have been accused at different times of being a “plant” for the CIA, the Russians, Assad, the Chinese Communist Party, the Iranian mullahs, the alt-right, Trump, Pyongyang, and the Palestinians, which if all true would make me a very busy girl indeed. Since I know I’m not a plant for anybody, I know for myself that such accusations don’t come from a place of insight with any degree of reliability, and I’ve therefore had to find my own way to navigate this confusing landscape.

So since I know that infiltration and manipulation happens, but I don’t find other people’s whisperings about “controlled opposition” useful, how do I figure out who’s trustworthy and who isn’t? How do I figure out who it’s safe to cite in my work and who to avoid? How do I separate the fool’s gold from the genuine article? The shit from the Shinola?

Here is my answer: I don’t.

I spend no mental energy whatsoever concerning myself with who may or may not be a secret pro-establishment influencer, and for good reason. There’s no way to know for sure if an individual is secretly scheming to sheep dog the populace into support for the status quo, and as long as government agencies remain opaque and unaccountable there will never be a way to know who might be secretly working for them. What I can know is (A) what I’ve learned about the world, (B) the ways the political/media class is lying about what I know about the world, and (C) when someone says something which highlights those lies. I therefore pay attention solely to the message, and no attention to what may or may not be the hidden underlying agenda of the messenger.

In other words, if someone says something which disrupts establishment narratives, I help elevate what they’re saying in that specific instance. I do this not because I know that the speaker is legit and uncorrupted, but because their message in that moment is worthy of elevation. You can navigate the entire political/media landscape in this way.

Since society is made of narrative and power ultimately rests in the hands of those who are able to control those narratives, it makes no sense to fixate on individuals and it makes perfect sense to focus on narrative. What narratives are being pushed by those in power? How are those narratives being disrupted, undermined and debunked by things that are being said by dissident voices? This is the most effective lens through which to view the battle against the unelected power establishment which is crushing us all to death, not some childish fixation on who should or shouldn’t be our hero.

Have no heroes. Trust nobody but your own inner sense-maker. If someone says something that disrupts establishment narratives based on what you understand those narratives to be, go ahead and help throw what they’re saying into the gears of the machine. Don’t make a religion out of it, don’t get attached to it, just use it as a weapon to attack the narrative matrix.

This by the way is also a useful lens to look through in spiritual development, if you’re into that sort of thing. When you enter spiritual circles concerned with enlightenment, you’ll see all sorts of debates about what teachers are really enlightened and which ones are just pretending, and these conversations mimic precisely the exact kinds of debates you’ll see in marginalized political circles about who’s the real deal and who’s controlled opposition. But the truth is there’s no way to know with certainty what’s going on in someone else’s head, and the best thing to do is to stop concerning yourself with who has and has not attained some special realization or whatever and just focus on what they’re saying. If a spiritual teacher says something which helps you notice something you’d never noticed before about consciousness or perception, then use what they said and maybe stick around to see if they have anything else useful to say. If not, move on.

There’s no reason to worry about what journalists, activists and politicians are coming from a place of authenticity if you know yourself to be coming from a place of authenticity. As you learn more about the world and get better at distinguishing fact from narrative, you will get better and better at seeing the narrative matrix clearly, and you’ll come to see all the things that are being said about what’s going on in the world as weapons in the battle of narrative control. Pick up whatever weapons seem useful to you and use them in whatever ways they’ll be useful, without wasting energy concerning yourself with the individuals who created them. Call the bullshit what it is and use the truth for what it is.

Or maybe I’m fulla shit! Maybe I myself am being paid to say these things by some powerful influencer; you can’t know for sure. All you can know is what’s useful for you. If you really find it useful to try and organize individual dissident figures into “hero” and “controlled opposition” boxes, if that genuinely helps you take apart the system that’s hurting us all, you’d know that better than I would. But if you find what I’m saying here useful, pick it up and add it to your toolbox.

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/02/11/how-to-tell-if-someone-is-controlled-opposition/

Conversations on Controlled Opposition, False Flags, Oligarchs and even President Lincoln.

Yesterday I shared the 4^th with an old friend I had not seen in years – we have many things in common, especially our concern for the future of the country. A number of subjects came up – and not surprisingly – were confirmed just today by reports that I posted in the library.

First was the report of a political promo of two strange bedfellows – which Vox Day explains is not so strange at all – controlled opposition – a perfect illustration of how it is done!

Here is a quote from it: This new think tank is as fake as the Edmund Burke Center for National Conservativism or whatever the neoclowns' latest charade is called. It's neoclowns from top to bottom and they're attempting to subvert the opposition to neoclown warmongering by taking control of the opposition to imperialist warfare. National Review and the modern conservative movement are the model; the plutocrats provide lavish funding for a false front organization that is designed to vacuum up all the minds, money, and media that might otherwise go to the genuine opposition.

As usual, Charles Hugh Smith does his excellent and precise job of explaining why our American oligarchs have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo – controlled opposition being just one of how it is done.

BTW – try word searching American Oligarchs in the LimbrawLibrary – an education in itself!

And while you and I were celebrating the 4^th, guess what our benevolent government was doing? Moon of Alabama exposes another false flag attempt.

Finally – a history lesson – did you know of the plans of President Lincoln before he was assassinated? Read the first 4 articles from this word search.

As I have said repeatedly – the more I read, the more I realize how little I know and how easy it has been for the gatekeepers to keep me ignorant. That is changing big time!

Keep mentoring – the work is just beginning!

The Controlled Opposition - Vox Popoli

 (The same goes for DaWolves in sheep's clothing who man (or woman) most pulpits and dispense pabulum to DaPews to keep the churchians pacified, neutered and controlled by the current cultural winds.

Don't think so? Read - https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/search?q=Churchianity+&m=1 - a list of headnotes to articles by various authors. - CL) 

Read full text:

https://voxday.net/2025/05/09/the-controlled-opposition/ 

There is always a fake controlled opposition being pushed as the only legitimate opposition. Sixty years ago, William F. Buckley was the Woke Lite attacking the “Woke Right” of the John Bircher movement. In the eighties, the neocons were the Woke Lite attacking the anti-NAFTA coalition. Then Richard Armitage and a bunch of attention seekers leaped in front of the Tea Party parade in order to steer it safely into irrelevance before it could threaten the Republican mainstream.

Now Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, the Weinstein brothers, and others in their orbit are trying to play defense for the SJWs by attacking Christian nationalists and anti-globalists. It’s not only the same playbook as previous controlled oppositions, it’s exactly the same play.

Only this time, it won’t work, because everything they have been pushing for the last sixty years is no longer idealistic theory, but failed reality.

Fake Patriots Proved - Vox Popoli - (Some of you Patriots are being fed by CONTROLLED OPPOSITION - can you perceive who they are? It's easy!- CL)

 (Answer to CONTROLLED OPPOSITION - they almost NEVER criticize their sponsor!. - CL)

I’ve told you from the very beginning that the Patriot Front was obviously fake, definitely Fed, and probably gay. All of which is true, but now we know that it is an offshoot of the SPLC thanks to Razorfist:

https://voxday.net/2026/07/06/fake-patriots-proved/ 

......No organic group is going to be allowed to grow in Clown World’s Union of Satanic Affiliations. There are a panoply of controlled opposition groups and gatekeepers, while organic individuals and groups are either a) infiltrated and converged like the Tea Party or b) banished from the platforms that would permit their rise to popularity.

It’s not always going to be this way because Clown World is collapsing. The good news is that the reason these fake groups keep being constructed and offered up as false opposition is because the terrible truth about Clown World is gradually penetrating the mainstream. And I can pretty much guarantee that there is a very good reason the clowns are so desperate to conceal the truth, because it is almost certainly much worse than any of us, including me, are fully capable of imagining.

Remember what Rome did to Carthage and Jerusalem, and what the Conquistadors did to Technochtitlan. That’s what they fear.

Face It: Controlled Opposition Cucks Like David French, Ross Douthat Are Traitors, by James Kirkpatrick - The Unz Review

(Controlled Opposition Cucks ARE DaFreakingProblem because they suck up most of the energy from American Conservatives who still can't see DaForest for DaTrees - and there are millions of them still living in delusion because their personal comfort level has yet to be disturbed - but that day is coming - the only question is exactly when?

As Mike Tyson said: "Everyone has a plan .....until they get punched in the mouth!" - CL)

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We’re under occupation. At this point, we can’t do much until enough people have understood this terrible situation. Those who prevent well-meaning Americans from coming to that conclusion aren’t simply mistaken. They are enemies and traitors. And I think they know exactly what they are doing.

Earlier, by Steve Sailer: David French: If Anti-CRT Laws Pass, The Current Robust Debate Over Race In The Schools Will Be Shut Down

There comes a point, and I think we’ve reached it, where we can no longer assume certain Establishment cuckservatives’ supposed “principled” support for Progressive causes is argued in good faith.

David French [Tweet him] is out there arguing for the “conservative case” against banning Critical Race Theory. Ross Douthat is crying surrender on racial issues. Combined with the already weak stance of even anti-CRT activists like Christopher Rufo [Tweet him] we must conclude that this is Conservatism Inc. once again negotiating the terms of surrender. Their underlying assumption: this change is simply occurring naturally and that nothing can be done about it. As with immigration, we must reject this premise entirely and frankly accept that the interests of the Historic American Nation require an energetic campaign against anti-white racism and the drive to replace our country’s traditional history, heroes, and people.

Like the Gimp from Pulp Fiction, once again our Progressive rulers, this time at The New York Times, rolled out David French to lecture conservatives about why their principles bar them from defending their interests. French, along with his co-authors Kmele Foster, Jason Stanley, and Thomas Chatterton Williams, openly endorse Critical Race Theory on the grounds that America should follow the German model: the state must teach the nation to feel ashamed.

French and his co-authors write of anti-CRT laws:

The laws differ in some respects but generally agree on blocking any teaching that would lead students to feel discomfort, guilt or anguish because of one’s race or ancestry, as well as restricting teaching that subsequent generations have any kind of historical responsibility for actions of previous generations. They attempt various carve outs for the impartial teaching of the history of oppression of groups. But it’s hard to see how these attempts are at all consistent with demands to avoid discomfort. These measures would, by way of comparison, make Germany’s uncompromising and successful approach to teaching about the Holocaust illegal, as part of its goal is to infuse them with some sense of the weight of the past and (famously) lead many German students to feel anguish about their ancestry.

Indeed, the very act of learning history in a free and multiethnic society is inescapably fraught. Any accurate teaching of any country’s history could make some of its citizens feel uncomfortable (or even guilty) about the past. To deny this necessary consequence of education is, to quote W.E.B. Du Bois, to transform “history into propaganda.”

[We Disagree on a Lot of Things. Except the Danger of Anti-Critical Race Theory Laws. By Kmele Foster, David French, Jason Stanley, and Thomas Chatterton Williams, July 5, 2021. Emphases added].

First, one notes French and his co-authors’ willingness to cite the work of the Communist W.E.B. Du Bois, a man who can probably be credited with developing the concept of white guilt.

Du Bois’ support of Stalin, and his ultimate flight to Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana, apparently does not trouble a “conservative” who claims to want to preserve “the American project.” The best thing that can be said about Du Bois is that he eventually left America. Would that his heirs would follow his example.

Second breathtaking admission: that “learning history in a free and multiethnic society is inescapably fraught.”

A white advocate would have to agree. The point of learning history is not just to acquire knowledge but to link citizens with their past and give them a belonging. However, if you have wildly distinct peoples with different histories and opposing interests, teaching history increases divisions between the warring tribes that have now become, nominally, your “fellow citizens.”

The conclusion I take from this: you shouldn’t import such diversity in the first place.

Otherwise learning about the history of your country becomes just another sacrifice on the altar of diversity.

However, the third takeaway is most important. The idea that Germany should be a model for the West is the fullest possible endorsement that VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow was right and today’s situation truly is “Hitler’s Revenge.” As R.R. Reno noted in The Return of the Strong Gods, the Second World War is now not presented as a war against a possible German hegemon but a crusade against “racism” and “fascism,” which never really ended, or can end. This means we must war eternally against ourselves and be on guard for the forbidden thoughts that could spring up at any time.

One notes that among French’s co-authors here is Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them and yet another one of those supposed experts who thought that Donald Trump, in fact perhaps the weakest president of modern history, was “performing fascism” by trying to enforce national immigration laws in Democrat-run cities [Trump announced a ‘surge’ of federal agents to cities led by Democrats. The author of ‘How Fascism Works’ says Trump is ‘performing fascism.’ By Charles Davis, Business Insider, July 23, 2020].

America is to be treated like a conquered country, like Germany after World War II, and we are to follow the Western European path to national suicide

If the men who thought they were defending their country in World War II knew what they were unleashing, would they have charged off the landing craft on D-Day?

There is a word for a government that indoctrinates the nation to hate itself, destroy its identity, and dispossess themselves via moral blackmail or outright threats or force. That word is occupation.

If this is the future “our” own leaders—including “conservatives”—have in store for us, it is very hard to understand why Americans should care about the growth of Chinese or Russian power, even if these countries were to outright seize American territory,

And it isn’t just David French. Ross Douthat [Tweet him] the day before the increasingly pointless celebration of July 4, argued in The New York Times that “the basic claim that structural racism exists has strong evidence behind it, and the idea that schools should teach about it in some way is probably a winning argument for Progressives” [The Excesses of Antiracist Education, July 3, 2021].

Douthat merely objects that this is going too far. To his credit, he recognizes the absurdity that teaching “all racial disparities are the result of racism” enables, including the claim that SAT tests (dominated by Asians) are somehow products of “White Privilege.” Yet, like Charles Murray, Douthat also seems to be most motivated by the worry that CRT will lead whites to develop a stronger sense of identity—albeit one “defined by a toxic ‘whiteness’ [that] will lead to its purgation.”

However, this is a practical objection, not a moral one. Douthat ends by warning Progressives that they are simply overreaching and going beyond “sanity.”

Which is just the same old Conservativism Inc. argument for inaction—if we do nothing, and above all take no risks, eventually, somehow, there will be a “reaction” and “sanity” will be restored.

However, if the last few decades of the Culture Wars have taught us anything, it’s that each new excess simply paves the way for the next great offensive. Homosexual marriage didn’t end that issue but created a host of new sexual controversies that would have seemed incredible just a decade ago. The Civil Rights Act didn’t establish equality, but led inevitably to Affirmative Action, which then led to the sweeping racial discrimination against whites that exists throughout the government and corporate America.

At some point, power must be opposed with power and a moral vision needs to be confronted by a competing moral vision. Otherwise, “conservatives” are doing nothing but consolidating the latest Progressive excess, assuring their followers that it isn’t really a big deal and that in any event, by doing nothing, “sanity” will somehow re-emerge.

For immigration patriots, this is a familiar story. The 1965 Immigration Act did not “solve” an immigration problem created by the 1924 Immigration Act. Instead, it unleashed a nation-breaking nightmare, one that that has ultimately done more to hurt the country than any foreign military. The 1986 Ronald Reagan Amnesty didn’t “solve” the damage done by the 1965 Immigration Act, but simply enabled it to continue. The various Amnesty proposals by Republicans over the years, including during the Trump Administration, would also not solve the problem. Most would keep Birthright Citizenship and visas for cheap labor.

Perhaps most importantly, without meaningful enforcement against businesses who hire illegal aliens, and without an end to the anti-white Affirmative Action system, there is no reason for non-whites who come to this country to assimilate and identity with the Historic American Nation. Indeed, it’s stupid for them to do so. They receive massive economic, political, and social benefits by remaining hostile.

The same logic must be applied to Critical Race Theory in American schools. The answer is not to try to meet CRT theorists halfway. The CRT argument itself is not being made in good faith. Conceding the point that there is “systemic racism” against non-whites necessitates action to remedy it. The only way to stop CRT, which is simply a rationale for parasites to keep economically, socially, and politically repressing whites, is to oppose it on the grounds that it is anti-white.

America is systemically racist–against whites, the people who created the country, ultimately keep it going, and who provide Affirmative Action Americans with the bread that they would be unable to earn if left to their own devices.

CRT should be rejected with scorn and defiance, but that should just be a beginning. Parents need to not just organize to take over school boards, but work to defund public schools entirely—and, ultimately, dismantle much of the frankly destructive American higher education system. It is yet another institution that doesn’t just fulfill its intended role, but actually makes things worse. The best-case scenario is that, like Du Bois, the parasites who fill such institutions will eventually be driven to leave us alone.

After more than a year of flag-burnings, riots, murders, media hysteria, and openly expressed anti-white hatred, it is long past time to recognize that the likes of French and Douthat are worse than useless. They are either remarkably obtuse or deliberately acting as Controlled Opposition, telling Americans not to resist as they are herded towards their destruction.

A spirit of compromise with those who openly advocate your dispossession is not what’s needed. We cannot live in the same polity with these people and their allies. We must be free of their control. Until that occurs, even “Independence Day” is a sham and boasts of American military power a sick joke.

We’re under occupation. At this point, we can’t do much until enough people have understood this terrible situation. Those who prevent well-meaning Americans from coming to that conclusion aren’t simply mistaken. They are enemies and traitors. And I think they know exactly what they are doing.

James Kirkpatrick [Email him |Tweet him @VDAREJamesK] is a Beltway veteran and a refugee from Conservatism Inc. His latest book is Conservatism Inc.: The Battle for the American Right. Read VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow‘s Preface here.

https://www.unz.com/article/face-it-controlled-opposition-cucks-like-david-french-ross-douthat-are-traitors/

"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in DaMouth!" - Sir Mike Tyson

The Rutherford Institute :: The Right to Be Let Alone: What to Do When COVID Strike Force Teams Come Knocking | By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead

(As an immigrant to America - having escaped tyranny - I never in my worst nightmares imagined I would be posting or sending this message as a reminder of how far we've come from America.

Welcome to NOT-America!

Back to square one again? Nope - http://www.crushlimbraw.com/ - this war for us is only beginning. And if you are wondering when DaNormals will wake up - DO NOT WORRY!

As Mike Tyson said: Everyone has a plan.......until they get punched in DaMouth! -  CL)

 

A Question for the "Willing" - by eric (Text only)

 Like animals being taken to the vet.

And that is why principled refusal is so critically important, the hill that must be defended at all costs – else it will cost us everything.

The Epic Battle that Liberated Christian Spain from Islam By Raymond Ibrahim

 

 Three Presidents Reject Covid Vaccines; Three Presidents Die - By Chuck Baldwin

(Just another coincidence, eh? - CL)

 

New Documentary on JFK Assassination Reveals ‘Organized Black Op’ - LewRockwell

 When you blow off a president’s head in the middle of a motorcade like that, which is a very organized black op – so much has to be done. The security along the route was changed, the parade route was changed. All the mechanics of that day were controlled and were part of an operation.

 

The Approaching Storm – OffGuardian - CJ Hopkins

And so on … I’m tired of citing the facts. They do not make the slightest difference to the vast majority of New Normals, anyway. As I’ve noted in several previous columns, these people have surrendered their rationality, and have been subsumed into a totalitarian movement, which has become their perceptual and social “reality,” which their “sanity” now depends upon defending, so the facts mean absolutely nothing to them.

How the Covid “Pandemic” Was Orchestrated - PaulCraigRoberts.org

Everything you should know about Covid

The War on Freedom: How Tyranny Overran the United States By Emanuel Pastreich

Slowly, against their will, and against their natural inclination to watch football and eat pizza, Americans are awaking to the reality of a totalitarian system with its tentacles wrapped around every aspect of their existence. Sadly, the true nature of this tyranny still eludes the understanding of most citizens, in part because the process by which America was transformed utterly has been slow, in part because the commercial media points us away from the true causes of this slippage and pins all blame on easily identifiable bad guys.

 

Face It: Controlled Opposition Cucks Like David French, Ross Douthat Are Traitors, by James Kirkpatrick - The Unz Review

(Controlled Opposition Cucks ARE DaFreakingProblem because they suck up most of the energy from American Conservatives who still can't see DaForest for DaTrees - and there are millions of them still living in delusion because their personal comfort level has yet to be disturbed - but that day is coming - the only question is exactly when?

As Mike Tyson said: "Everyone has a plan .....until they get punched in the mouth!" - CL)

Remember Mike Tyson!