How does evil control people?
Evil has its home in your desires that are driven by sin, your emotions pull you in certain directions that allows evil to get a foothold in parts of your psyche, the ones that feed this flame of desire know how to inflame your emotions through other avenues that go unnoticed because of the emotional separation of ideas,
there may be an attempt to put you in their shoes by fabricating situations that shall color your thoughts one way or another, evil shall play on your reason concerning what is important to you and creating scenarios to play on your imagination,
all of these things can be proven or disproved by exploring facts on your own and not using biased opinions that evil itself may lead you to, the trick here is to break away from the single voice with its single opinion and start exercising your own freedom of will instead of the will of others,
stop believing this single voice, break away and form your own opinion based on known facts that don't come from a source that has a known agenda, evil has an agenda and its number one priority is to not be recognized for what it really is,
I am afraid of what might happen
unfortunately, people are bamboozled enough to believe anything other that this one voice that they listen to is in itself evil and is trying to subvert them or take away their liberties,
unfortunately for them, they may not make the proper realizations without some tough lessons to explain, and even then they may have to face this sort of situation in some subsequent life in order to deal with it properly,
conspiracies and paranoia have taken control and there is very little that can be done considering they still have free will to make their own choices, people may try to help and explain but to no avail,
the evil has taken hold and is now running the show even though it was them that gave it its power to begin with, evil makes the best use of sinful actions as it possibly can and pride is one of the most vulnerable ones out there,
people do not like to be proven wrong and they like what they want and want what they like, a degree of selflessness must be attained in order for evil to be recognized and to be dealt with accordingly,
when someone is not tempted so as to give evil a foot hold, virtue shall become a protecting shield.