There Are Rasputin’s Everywhere

Nicholas II’s wife, Alexandra, inadvertently contributed to the end of Russian Tsardom. Her gullible and ignorant relationship with Rasputin is bewildering. 

Rasputin managed to hijack the Russian monarchy by utilizing the same slyness found in other *so-called* ‘holy men.’

In reality, they are nothing if not fake. Imposters.  

When the tsar left to oversee the Russian military during World War I, Rasputin also went full-force, situating himself by Alexandra’s side and deceivingly influencing important war-time decisions. 

There have been many Rasputin’s in history, and there will always be some spoiling society. 

Individuals partitioning themselves from an established belief system, changing it as they see fit and inducting followers with weakened psyches. 

I myself have met quite a few in my lifetime (all around the world). 

From my perspective, they are among the most backwards, evil, deceiving, entitled, and annoying characters I’ve ever crossed paths with. 

The mental reconstruction of their faces makes me feel a cringiness like no other. 

They are flat characters, easily spottable if you recognize the following characteristics: 

1. They request/demand that you inhibit logical reasoning and critical thinking. They’re all about restricting your thoughts, as that’s the only way they can broach their primitive ideologies. They contradictorily try to convince you that your God-given ability to think critically goes against divinity.   
2. They prey on those who have an unquenchable thirst for emotional solace. The dreaded Rasputin doesn’t necessarily possess high EQ, but he/she hunts those who are obviously in need of emotional comfort and reassurance. 
3. They enflame hostility between those they prey on and their loved ones. For example, they might create tension between a husband who sympathizes with them and a wife that is dissuaded by their repulsive ideology. 
4. They eventually become entrenched in their own deception.

I was only a child when I learned how to spot their presence, and took a vow to combat their shady influence in whatever way possible. 

It is not an easy task, since their propagandizing leaves an acute influence on good, but vulnerable people.