One of the more signature components of any mass protest is the slogan chant. “What do we want? Equality! When do we want it? NOW!” is an example of such a chant. Many observers think such displays are a waste of time and have very little genuine utility when it comes to creating change. Yet, it seems to arise spontaneously whenever people want something collectively. So there is a collective belief in its utility and even effectiveness in creating desired change. There was even a recent report of a march in New York City where a group was chanting the above chant but substituting the words “dead cops” for “equality.” What can Creator tell us about the true power behind protest slogan chants?

The basic phenomenon being demonstrated with a group coming together and animating the assembly through chanting slogans can be one of inspiring, uplifting, and engendering a unification in common cause to energize and persuade others through such a demonstration, who may then take away a greater inner awareness and inner conviction and belief in the enterprise. So it is a kind of grooming of followers that is at once instructive, commanding, and a source of influence and potential control. When this is done for a lofty objective, it is a way to enhance and magnify individual power into a collective focus, and that can become a force to reckon with and get attention of many, and help a cause become recognized and be taken seriously. If it is turned towards a dark purpose, a dark focus and intention that is non-divine, it can be equally damaging so the power becomes perverted towards a dark goal that takes those participating out of divine alignment and may directly harm those exposed and influenced to the energies and, as happens always, perpetrators of wrongdoing will suffer doubly, the negative consequences. The most sinister and harmful of consequences for such actions is they are the stock-in-trade of interlopers using mind control manipulation to affect the vulnerable to become leaders and, by way of example, they draw others in. So demonstrations with slogans that affect the emotions can be quite powerful persuasion to incite others present to adopt and even embrace a dark message and add their own energies, and that will change them for the worse because the act they are carrying out serves as a kind of additional programming overlay—the emotion of the moment, the power of such messages, and the tapping into a natural desire of people to belong, entices them and begins a process of training them to think and believe in dark thoughts and what they imply if acted on and carried to the next level—this amplifies the reach and power of evil to corrupt, and that corruption will be lasting and become a springboard for more. There is always a good deal of variability in the susceptibility to such influences. Not everyone will become a hardcore hater in attending a demonstration where hateful slogans are used, but it might well harden them to some degree and make it more likely they will accommodate such negativity and judgment of others in the future, and that is the purpose, to divide and conquer. The darkness wins no matter how people respond—if they join the hate-filled chanting, they become a perpetrator and an agent of the darkness; if they run away or recoil, they are simply self-declaring their victimhood and become an enemy, justifying the actions of the perpetrator in the twisted logic of those seeking power and control. So here again, we would say words matter and sometimes are a defining moment when people make a choice, and thereby cross a line, redefining who they are.