4 Manipulation Techniques to Beware ft. Left Wing Violence — Daily Persuasion w/ Joshua Lisec Ep 224

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What if the person crying “victim” is actually the bully—and the manipulation runs so deep, you never saw it coming?

Welcome to Daily Persuasion with Joshua Lisec Episode 224: 4 Manipulation Techniques to Beware ft. Left Wing Violence—a brutally honest breakdown of the emotional and political games being played by those who claim the moral high ground… while striking from the shadows.

In this latest installment of Daily Persuasion, Joshua Lisec, bestselling author, certified hypnotist, and co-author of the Bulletproof book, walks you through 4 manipulation techniques that are being deployed right now—not just in relationships, but on the national stage. The most pressing of these? The bullying techniques cloaked in cries of victimhood.

Just ask Jack Posobiec, who was recently assaulted during a peaceful protest near Congressman Jamie Raskin and a crowd of Democrat union workers. You won’t hear about it in the legacy media, but it’s all caught on camera. After being pointed out by Raskin himself, Jack Posobiec was physically attacked by union agitators—an act of left wing violence that’s becoming all too familiar. And yet, less than 24 hours later, Jack was in the White House press room asking the question the media refuses to: What will the Trump administration do to stop the rise of left wing violence?

Lisec uses this real-world example to expose how persuasion techniques work in emotional warfare—how attackers pretend to be the attacked, and how silence from institutions allows these tactics to fester. These are textbook persuasion psychology plays. They’re not just used in politics, but in abusive relationships and toxic workplaces too.

This episode is not just political commentary—it’s a masterclass in persuasion itself. Want to know how to persuade someone to do something? Understand what your opponent already knows. That’s what Episode 224 lays bare. Lisec shows how the left’s messaging is saturated with persuasive techniques, repeated persuasion examples, and narrative framing straight from the techniques of persuasion in writing.

But this time, the frame is darker.

Take the “bully-victim” swap. When someone violates your boundaries again and again—and you finally react—they say you’re the problem. “You’re toxic. You’re gaslighting. You’re the narcissist.” Sound familiar? This is the same tactic we’re seeing play out in the media. The left escalates violent rhetoric and behavior, but when anyone pushes back, suddenly the rules change. It’s victimhood cosplay—a manipulation technique weaponized with precision.

Joshua Lisec explores these same patterns in personal relationships, asking viewers to consider: Have you tolerated too much? Have you internalized blame that wasn’t yours? That’s part of what Lisec calls self-persuasion—a phenomenon he unpacks further in his acclaimed Unhumans book, which reveals how mass manipulation is seeded through culture, advertising, and language.

Of course, the political elite know exactly what they’re doing. As the Bulletproof book details, left-wing influencers, media outlets, and even elected officials have poured years into normalizing political violence—until it becomes folk-hero legend. (See: Luigi Manion.) Meanwhile, peaceful protesters get labeled extremists, and January 6th participants rot in prison cells while BLM rioters walk free.

This episode doesn’t just teach you examples of persuasion in advertising or how to detect persuasion techniques in writing. It shows you the battlefield. The stakes. And most importantly, it asks:
If you don’t recognize manipulation when it happens, how can you ever stop it?

Watch Daily Persuasion with Joshua Lisec Ep. 224 now: 4 Manipulation Techniques to Beware ft. Left Wing Violence. You’ll never see persuasion—or politics—the same way again. And maybe that’s the first step to taking your agency back.