I bet conservatives are going to think “what a sob story” but it’s important to get the news out. Color me grandiose but the Republic may actually be in danger.
There may be an effort afoot to actively replace intelligent people in positions of power in society and industry.
"Put on your thinking cap" is an innocuous expression for concentrating.
I don’t want to publish the details but it seems in grade school the class was given instructions which surreptitiously induced the students to "extrude a portion of their etheric body" or separate off a piece of their spirit and create an actual “thinking cap.” It seemed when we took them off, all we could do was recess.
One day it oddly felt like a child of an administration member had mine. I am not one who is prone to psychic experiences but it almost looked in my mind's eye like the cap I had visualized was on him. I don't remember how that ended but maybe they moved us on to other things so we'd forget. I did forget for the longest time.
I now recall at times I had felt that various people in important places seemed to think they deserved to be big shots because they were wearing someone else's cap.
Perhaps this is how Affirmative Action is designed to work? Perhaps if someone gets their foot in the door, they may hope to then create unhealthy rapports with people in order to appear competent while having others do the heavy lifting? I am sure they don't give them instructions like schoolchildren to make an actual cap but there are probably many different ways to create an unhealthy rapport.
You may be thinking all you need to do is pray and forgive and everything will be all right. If you have always run a tight ship spiritually, maybe that is so. I have found that a meditative technique from Tibetan Buddhism called Tonglen was useful in bringing into focus things one had neglected to forgive, and in decreasing unhealthy rapports. Suppose you hadn't realized the harm at the time of the creation of an unhealthy rapport or had been moved past it by events. It is not a religious or un-Christian technique because it makes no reference to a deity. There are descriptions on Youtube.
I was uncomfortable helping others with it when I learned about it but it is effective to imagine that you may have left pieces of yourself behind and use the technique on them. Stuff should come flooding back within hours. Sometimes it also seems like a person is completely in your face, and it helps to get rid of them. In that case, they're already all over you.