How They Control Your Mind: Hidden PsyOps Shaping America

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Dr. Phil McGraw

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🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Part 1: After Charlie Kirk's assassination shocks the nation, a powerful disinformation machine unleashes a wave of hate, conspiracies, and manufactured outrage. If you've ever wondered why the country feels more divided, more angry, and more easily manipulated, this episode will change the way you understand modern influence.

Behavior science expert Chase Hughes joins Dr. Phil for a powerful breakdown of how modern Americans are being conditioned psychologically, neurologically, and emotionally by systems designed to divide and control. Drawing from the same behavioral frameworks he teaches to elite military units and intelligence operatives, Chase explains how outrage, tribal identity, and manufactured division are not political accidents but psychological operations rooted in decades of influence research.

Dr. Phil unpacks the neurology behind these tactics how the amygdala, reward centers, and subcortical systems are hijacked by media, algorithms, and curated conflict. Together, they trace the evolution of mass manipulation from early propaganda and MKUltra to Operation Mockingbird and today's algorithm-driven radicalization loops.

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0:00.0	Disinformation machines churns out hate, conspiracies, and outrage.
0:06.3	Left versus right has never been the real fight.
0:10.5	What they discovered is there's a way to engineer trauma and there's a way to weaponize trauma,
0:16.3	and we can use that to move the behavior of a populace in a direction that we wanted to go.
0:21.1	This is what he does, and frankly, he's pulling the curtain back.
0:34.4	As Charlie Kirk's assassination dominates the news and all the feeds, disinformation
0:42.1	machines churns out hate, conspiracies, and outrage.
0:47.7	Left versus right has never been the real fight.
0:52.8	Behavior science expert Chase Hughes argues that political outrage, tribal
0:57.4	hatred, and online violence are manufactured psychological operations. These are engineered
1:05.7	to divide Americans and keep entrenched power in control.
1:11.6	Now Chase exposes how suppression, radicalization, and division are weaponized, not by ideology,
1:20.6	but by system designed to keep you outrage, keep you divided, and keep you distracted.
1:28.4	The minute that your ideas require violence to enforce or spread, they're already completely bankrupt.
1:37.1	Every tyrant, every failed ideology, every social collapse starts the exact same way.
1:42.8	The debate dies, then violence takes the place of debate.
1:46.0	And you can't argue with a gun.
1:48.0	You can only kill with it.
1:50.0	And when killing is the substitute for a conversation,
1:55.0	society as a whole starts falling off a cliff.
1:58.0	We all have been sold the biggest con of our entire life.
2:03.6	And this is that the problem is left versus right, or Republicans versus Democrats.
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