Manipulated By Confusion

One of the things that manipulative people know is the power of confusion to get people to agree with them. The easiest and most common way to do this seems to be through offering too much information and/or misinformation. This approach can cause people to shut down and seek simple answers as an alternative.


In order to either stop an issue from gaining traction or getting one established, if people can be put in a state of confusion, a "savior," if you will, can come in with a simple answer and win the day. The simple answer doesn't even need to be all that relevant or even accurate.

Confusion sends people running for a way to "fix" the tangle of information (or misinformation) in their minds and will latch on to what seems simple, even if it's not relevant, as long as it's sold as being an alternative to the confused state. In an inverse relationship, the more confused a person is the more simple an answer that will be accepted.