Great, now everyone on these forums will be paranoid and accusing anyone who disagrees on this or that of being a paid shill.
The use of cognitive distortions to cause distrust is the tactic of cognitive infiltration. This is not an accusation.
Understand that media for at least 40 years through; sitcoms, dramas, soap operas, game shows etc., has been using semiotics to reinforce the misconception that cognitive distortions can be used for functional communication useful for critical thinking. Not so.
The list of cognitive distortions used by cognitive therapists can be used by a covert group pretending to agree on information that is false, or irrelevant. Doing so either misleads, or distracts and the distortions implemented can badly impair viewers from detecting, cogniting the true situation.
All the infiltration of government has to do is to prevent sincere Americans from engaging information useful in stopping the agenda of the infiltration. Anything will do. However, stuff that appears to have relevance works better. Here is the list of cognitive distortions.
COGNITIVE DISTORTIONS
1. All or nothing thinking: Things are placed in black or white categories. If things are less than perfect self is viewed as failure.
2. Over generalization: Single event is viewed as continuous failure.
3. Mental filter: Details in life (positive or negative) are amplified in importance while opposite is rejected.
4. Minimizing: Perceiving one or opposite experiences (positive or negative) as absolute and maintaining singularity of belief to one or the other.
5. Mind reading: One absolutely concludes that others are reacting positively or negatively without investigating reality.
6. Fortune Telling: Based on previous 5 distortions, anticipation of negative or positive outcome of situations is established
7. Catastrophizing: Exaggerated importance of self's failures and others successes.
8. Emotional reasoning: One feels as though emotional state IS reality of situation.
9. "Should" statements: Self imposed rules about behavior creating guilt at self inability to adhere and anger at others in their inability to conform to self's rules.
10. Labeling: Instead of understanding errors over generalization is applied.
11. Personalization: Thinking that the actions or statements of others are a reaction to you.
12. Entitlement: Believing that you deserve things you have not earned.
Your post has quite a few.
Great [minimizing], now everyone[all or nothing thinking] on these forums will be paranoid [minimizing] and accusing [emotional reasoning] anyone [all or nothing thinking, generalizing] who disagrees on this or that of being a paid shill.