i am a very astute C language programmer,

Good to hear it from you.

and i firmly suspect that some form of mind control has been used to take over this country of the united states.

Okay. This raises two questions.

The first one derives from the fact that mind control doesn't exist yet:

1) By what mechanism is this mind control exerted?

And the second one derives from your phrasing:

2) What has this suspicion got to do with the astuteness of your C code?

keep in mind that this mind control could very well be something that we have never before experienced.

Well obviously. Since we've never experienced mind control.

if this is the case, then this bullshit will not stop until the entire world is under the control of ONE SINGLE DICTATORSHIP.

if