This is one of the best pieces written by el gato. At first, it was amusing that people were so dedicated to their left leanings, but there appears to be some outright insanity taking over. I watched a short video yesterday on a ring camera where a sixty-ish woman went to the door of a stranger who had a Trump sign in their year. She started telling the homeowner she was crazy and then started throwing the F-word around and giving the one-finger salute as she left. It was pure insanity. If Trump manages to overcome the cheating this time, I have no idea how the insanity will manifest itself. But it will be very bad because the Democrats have lost all reason.
Saw Trump signs knocked down in a neighbor's yard this morning on our bike ride (it hasn't been windy)- this is a 55+ community and someone was triggered by this! A 75 yr. old was arrested in our community for going on to private property and taking down Trump signs. But somehow "we" are deranged, want to put people in camps and censor speech? It's so amazing to me that the same people cannot see the irony in their statements and actions- must have been something in the shots/boosters to bring this on....HAS to be..right?
Exactly. They scream we are facists. Turn around then and ask them to define "fascism." They can't. All you get is there group think reaction - deer in headlights look.
This has been a new phenomenon appearing in several countries under election conditions. That of the leftwing WOKE vandalizing signs of their opponents. Part of spreading Cancel Culture.
Or....what those who are part of the dysfunctional totalitarian groups will do when anyone questions or dissents to their narratives. They will SHUN/SMEAR/PUNISH. Always. Litmus test for totalitarianism.
The newest variant of this behaviour is in vandalizing election signs of anyone who fails to support their WOKE narrative.
A little bit of wishful thinking there. Those poisons probably CAN interfere with our thinking, but the kind of behavior in these stories has to come from somewhere inside. Always there, and waiting to be released
It was a joke...but really how does one become a liberal? My parents raised all of us the same...two of my sisters are unhappy libs always blaming others for their failures. I try to go back and look for a defining moment...maybe because we made fun of her when she got glasses????? haha
Families are funny. Same house and environment, but totally different life experience. My uncle told people that he was hungry and had nothing growing up. My mother said she had enough food and thought everyone was poor so it didn’t bother her.
My late oldest brother was a die hard liberal. I'm an an-cap. My other brother couldn't care less about politics. We were all raised by the same conservative devout Catholic parents. I think it's a wiring issue!
Same as me...(Kent State Univ in the 70s- pretty radical then)- and only one sister took advantage of getting the degree. Two others did not...they are all libs.
Although there are more Harris signs in my neighborhood, the vast majority of homes aren’t advertising their choices. I’m hoping that more Harris signs indicates that the Dems are panicking.
Yes they have to show their "solidarity"- just like mask FB profile photos and pix of "look I am getting my third booster shot, to protect others" - yowsers!
Just like when they put up the BLM signs virtue signaling that "all lives matter." The hypocrisy of it was too hysterical - they will slaughter the pre-born, but "all lives matter!" Well, their lives unless you are a white, straight male.
I think it's safe to assume that most of the houses without any signs are voting Trump. I don't know anyone who loves Harris and isn't sporting a sign.
The blatant, in your face, lying is getting to me.
Why do political people lie the way they do - when it is so obvious to most people that they are lying?
Is it because one political consultant tells them that it works; and then another tells them “they all do it”?
Is it because in the short term it gives an advantage, and in the long term the lie will be forgotten - after all, all that matters is winning.
Case in point: Harris at the naval observatory; she turned my stomach/ made me cringe . . . no shame,none at all.
All politicians lie, but Trumps lies are like the ones you hear in a bar or locker room; Harris’ are like what you hear from a used car dealer, or at a casino, from a prostitute or a con man who wants to trick you out of your winnings or inheritance, or wants you to sign up for a very high interest loan.
There’s got to be a better way to select “leaders”.
I recently came to the realization that the lies and hypocrisy are features, not bugs. That's why pointing out examples of such does not bother them in the slightest. They don't even try to defend themselves when confronted. Getting away with blatant lies and hypocrisy is proof that THEY have power over everyone else, and that they are above not just the law but basic social norms. Just like they'll show off their wealth, they'll show off their privilege-- it's like a badge of honor to them when they get away with something. The Enlightenment idea of equality is completely foreign to them.
It’s as if they’re competing to be the best, biggest, most adept, most outrageous, liar; and if they win, they’ll have carte Blanche to lie to us for four years, or maybe more. Certified liter in chief.
This AM I couldn't turn off 'Morning Joe' for the first 15 minutes because of the irrational comments being made. It's difficult to imagine how far some ppl will bend to justify their position.
There are at least 2 possible explanations: the network hires irrational people or the commentators go along with the approved narrative to keep thier job.
True. It's probably easy for them. Lower IQ - or, as I mentioned in my comment, pharmacologically throttled IQ in normal IQ but mentally medicated persons, because that impairs complex reasoning.
You might want to learn about the spectrum of Cluster-B, and how it influences anyone from a single individual to a whole population.
In a personal relationship or family group, it might be called Borderline/Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Across most of a population, it is called the Psychopathic rule, or Pathocracy. Another word for totalitarianism.
Well, I have to say, that when I once disagreed with Susan Daniels, and one of her supporters started flinging the "A-hole" word at me, Susan was gleefully egging him on. Then she banned me from her Substack, removing all my posts. After I had spent many comments complimenting her on her work. Which I meant, at the time.
Therefore, pot calling kettle black, in her post above.
Well said. We need to be careful that we don't get trapped in our own echo chambers. Defensive reactions are natural, and it takes a well-grounded person to overcome them and really listen to the other side.
A, who is afraid to intentify himself, you are a liar. I would never encourage that kind of behavior. Last time I banned you for your nasty posts for twenty-four hours. The next time it will be permanently.
Ketch—I'm watching you. You subscribed to me but don't have a single post to your name. I was born at night but it was not last night.
I have NO idea who you are, but you might think twice while flinging the " afraid to identify himself" insult here in the land of el gato malo. We've already dissected thst stance and found it baseless.
Aren't you the one who just posted that "Narcissists can gaslight the Hell out of the public"? And you went on about evil?
So, ignoring it all will do the trick?
You do not seem to know the signs when you see it. You seem to contradict yourself. Are you one of Susan's Flying Monkeys? She has a few of them doing her bidding here.
El Gato is one of the best, but this post hits the nail on the head re a key, maybe foundational problem - the isolating group-think and closed-mindedness of a now dominate segment of “Liberals”. To me the biggest question is how they got where they are, and can they ever be salvaged.
I am probably best described as an agnostic, but I think the crux of the problem may be the turning away from religion. Aside from the mystical / spiritual aspects of religion; religion spends a lot of time telling / reminding us of how we should live, how we should relate to others, you know, right v wrong. And almost all religions do a pretty good job at this.
So some of us have turned to politics in lieu of religion, and politics is a very poor substitute (it’s obvious). It may be that we need to “submit” as some say to some form of actual religion, to balance our lives, and live naturally. And religions need to try harder to be believed.
Left wing ideology is the most fundamentalist religion in existence. The blind faith in absurd narratives is worship to them. Any questioning of dogma gets you excommunicated.
Yes, the word "pious" best describes them in my workplace, where they dominate. They have their confessions in the form of DEI statements and rules for what you can eat (nothing from Nestle!), and you're definitely a heretic if you don't agree enthusiastically. It's a cult.
I could not agree with you more. I don’t think of myself as religious but I am spiritual. I don’t believe in organized religion because I think we all have an internal one that controls our behavior and, mostly, gets people to do the right things in life.
Mark Halperin was interviewed by Tucker recently and he said Trump winning the election would cause one of the biggest, most widespread mental health crises of all time. Their carefully crafted reality cannot handle it. I suspect we will see child-like temper tantrums in the form of violence in the blue cities.
One the one hand I can't see the Kamala voters et al having enough individual humility to coalesce around plotting retribution towards the other side. But they do all seem to be motivated by their hatred of Trump so perhaps their bitterness of a Republican victory might just supersede their ability to think of oneself as the smartest one of the bunch.
I could very well be wrong, but I just don't see the coordinated support for widespread violence if/when Harris loses. If anything, Dem leaders may choose to "save" violent riots until Trump is in office as a way to sabotage and discredit his term and throw things into chaos.
Whether it happens now or later, I do expect we will see civil unrest perpetrated by insane leftists in the next few years.
Kamala does not actually believe this, because why would she volunteer to get into a debate with an actual fascist? Second, what actual fascist would agree to the farce of a debate?
I wonder about this. There is a top of the lefty pyramid, in other words, supreme manipulators who develop the narrative and create the latest "evidence" that Trump is a fascist. It stands to reason that those people, at least, know it's bullshit. So the problem of the sheeple may be solved on its own, if team reality can rip down the curtain and fully expose the liars. Alternative media / social media have been able to do this to some extent, luring a steady stream of former Dems to remove their blinders. Is this sufficient to reach critical mass? Maybe. But those who remain now don't want to be bothered thinking for themselves. These fools live to join the elite club by giving the right password, and will therefore always fall prey to architects of evil. The spell may never break until something huge and irrefutable happens to blow up their dream world. I hope for their sake, it's not the covid reckoning that Geert warns about.
Sounds like the 'old busybodies' who loved to spread the latest town gossip about who didn't go to church last Sunday and what teenager was in the 'family way'... ad nauseam.
Especially if they could snitch on someone a la in Minnesota -- "... Walz's coronavirus policies were extremely heavy-handed and restrictive; under his leadership, the state endured the pandemic in a fundamentally anti-libertarian fashion."
"He even defended Minnesota's ridiculous hotline for COVID-19 snitches. That's right: Walz's government maintained a method for people to report their neighbors for failing to abide by social distancing rules."
"And though Walz instructed police to merely issue citations to people caught violating stay-at-home orders—which is still bad enough—he also maintained the right, via executive order, to issue $1,000 fines and send violators to jail for 90 days." 😳
It IS amazing that they have such little insight into their own behavior. Maybe it's because they are always looking to 'tell' on anyone who - to them - is breaking the rules. A Karen or Chad on steroids, if you will.
The insanity, as I have explained to you many times before, is a form of totalitarianism. Most specifically known as Pathocracy, or rule by political Psychopaths.
You need to better inform yourself about these issues, Susan. You seem to operate on a few instincts, but no background knowledge in terms of the actual principles at play here.
You could do worse than to read and study Andrew Lobaczewski's "Political Ponerology" (2nd ed.)
So, Tired Citizen.....you call the shots, do you? You tell the rest of us what opinions we can have, and what we may post? You're as bad as she is.
Turning a blind eye to this behaviour of Susan's never solved it. But then again, you could be one of her friends or grown children, skewing the issue for her here., She is quite manipulative. She would resort to that kind of trick.
And here we go with the preschool antics. Thanks. Just showed who YOU are. I personally have more to do in life than to stoop down to your level. Good luch.
Necessary course corrections are never pretty, but here we are.
As with any cult, they either are disbanded externally or implode internally, Jim Jones-fashion and I think we'll be seeing a *lot* of micro-level, personal Jonestowns *very* soon. Our job is to limit the damage they cause, clean up the mess and build something better.
See i think the first step is we must not allow them to change language or nuance. A common "language" is crucial key to sharing time-experience with others.
Force them to confront reality. If they won't its just opportunity cost for us. Memes are a way to do this; that's why they throw tantrums and get upset because reality clashes with their worldview.
But, indeed many are lost...just like the people who keep taking the vaxx. There's no going back because reality is kryptonite to their worldview; they'd have to face up to sunk costs and the fact that they are not morally superior.
I remember Michael Savage's line "Borders...language...culture." And here we are. If I leave my house and interface with others, besides those who speak English but will not hear, inevitably I hear foreign tongues everywhere. I have no idea what they are saying and they have plenty of company, which negates the need to learn English. These are the ones I think about. Will we be able to use the universal language of a smile, and open our arms, inviting them into our homes?
Real Rule of Law, official English, and the need to find work are great integrators. This is how our immigrant ancestors became Americans. If you couldn't speak English, you had a hard time finding work, or communicating with coworkers, and without work you were doomed to poverty. Strong motivator.
I was thinking about my grandparents, they were some of those immigrants. My mother (the first of the offspring to get a high school diploma) and her siblings could speak the native tongue. My grandparents spoke broken English, but could understand us. Things have changed. Back then,, they wanted to become Americans and had to learn the language. Nowadays, not so much.
That WAS indeed the case - three, or even two generations ago. Today, not so much. We have somehow severed the connection between self-reliance and work. And replaced it with dependency and welfare.
"our immigrant ancestors became Americans"
Too many of today's immigrants choose instead to become parasites, living off of Americans.
Funny that in the early 1900s immigrant parents WANTED their children to 'speak English'. A hundred+ years later we are encouraging a Tower of Babel culture.
Think about Germany or Japan after WWII, or Russians after the fall of the USSR. People walking around with shocked, blank looks on their faces and nothing to say.
Is that not the core problem? Many of these unfortunate souls are, sadly, unable to accept, or in many cases, even perceive reality. They live in a world devoid of humanity, able only to chant the mantras of their cult.
In our centuries of exposure to cults, we have certainly learned to de-program individuals - but how do we bring hundreds of millions back to sanity?
"You might be in a cult if you don't recognize a situation where any sane person would recognize they'd be whistling past the graveyard if participating in similar behavior/activity; a situation where the cult members participation is strictly objective"
I submit that those not in the 'cool crowd' have catered to their demands & coddled their notions far too long. There are limits. And they need to be adhered to.
Yes, absolutely. But I also think there may be many on the left that have this identical thought about us. After all, they see us as deranged fascists wanting to destroy democracy. Even though that is worthy of LOL, it's a good thought experiment.
I am certain that is the case but I haven't see any videos of conservatives/Republicans/Libertarians... destroying the other side's campaign signs or going out of their way to tell the other side how wrong they are - to wit - the lady who went up on the porch & rang the bell to excoriate the homeowner and cursing along with it.
Here is the statement of the young man who was on the receiving end of her diatribe:
"Just had the craziest experience ever on an airplane:
I’m boarding my flight from Baltimore to Seattle and approach my seat. I had an upgraded seat that I paid a little extra for because of the long 6 hour flight. As I approach my row I smile and motion to the husband and wife sitting in the aisle and middle seat that Imy seat was next to the window. I put my backpack in the overhead and the wife with a very stern voice says to me:
“Did you come here to cheer or to protest?”
“I came here to celebrate democracy ma’am”
… I knew this was going to be a long flight at this point. She then proceeded with: (somewhat paraphrased as my memory allows)
Her: “You put a crazed man in charge of the nuclear codes! You should be ashamed!”
Me: ‘Well we’re all entitled to our opinions here ma’am.”
Her: “And I’m entitled to get drunk and puke in your lap! I’m going to throw up right in your lap! You make me sick! Don’t talk to me! Don’t look at me! Don’t you dare even put your arm on that rest. You disgust me! You should be ashamed of yourself! You put a maniac’s finger on the button” (assuming she’s means nukes). You are a bigot. You should get off this plane!”
Me: “ma’am, by definition, bigotry is disparaging someone prior to knowing them simply by their beliefs and opinions. Thank you for being the very thing you preach against.”
She the proceeded with other various rantings such as my lack of critical thinking and other insults. Finally a flight attendant came over as you will see in the video followed by a supervisor informing that she would have to deboard the plane per captains orders.
After much fuss, airport police came and removed her from the plane. The lady across from me filmed that and was gracious to sent it to me. Many others around me defended me insisting the lady had caused all the commotion and was verbally assaulting not just me but others wearing various Trump apparel boarding the plane.
As the lady was removed I saw that I was surrounded by blacks, Latinos, Asians, and whites, all who had chimed in asking her to be removed and who had defended me. I was touched and moved knowing later that not all these people were trump supporters. The black man who took the seat next to me was a registered Democrat and he and I had a very good discussion about the beauty of free speech and coming together when people insult and commit acts of violence just for having differing views.
It truly was a great demonstration of AMERICA and its people coming together and standing up for one another. Hope you enjoy."
I don't think we have the resources or patience to "deprogram" members of this cult. I'm thinking that shock treatment in the form of "reality immersion" is the only option. Next we have impose rigorous standards, an "unforgiving meritocracy" so to speak, and the de-glorification of victimhood.
I would like to thank the genius among our forefathers who instituted the American Thanksgiving AFTER Election Day. I’m reasonably sure that has historically avoided bloodshed within my family and possibly others.
I'm a HS biology teacher in California. Once at a team meeting a teacher said it was extremely important to teach climate change because we needed to make sure the students knew how to vote right. The others were all shaking their heads in agreement. I spoke up and said it wasn't our jobs to teach kids how they should vote. I was verbally attacked by them all. It's going to be a long haul to sanity when kids are getting this for 13+ years in school. And this is just one of the many crazy things I could share.
I don't know. Teenagers in Nazi Germany managed to cope after 1945 despite years of propaganda. Young people still have flexible minds. It's mostly us old folks who are set in our ways.
I looked into that concept actually, FL. About what the De-Nazification program was all about. Because Nazism was a form of psychopathically-inspired totalitarianism just as is the phenomenon the West is going through right now.
The king-pin of that program seemed to have been that a new authority was put in place, when the Allied Forces took over. Non-Nazis. Although, the American govt. did hire many former Nazi scientists/academics, and imported them to these shores. Which introduced a fly to the ointment. Because they had not necessarily foresworn their earlier allegiances.
Like cult followers, a number of them escaped the mental grip......and others did not.
Depends whether a new healthy authority is put in place, and whether people are able to shake off the alliance with the old. There are some very elderly persons still today who proclaim Nazism due to their early German experiences. And then there are others, as you say, who rebounded nicely.
Not many people know that the actual Nazi's won WW2. Oligarchs who brought Hitler to power, financed and sold arms to both sides of the war, then profited by rebuilding what they destroyed are still running the show.
I'd say the majority of them rebounded nicely, focusing on the rebuilding of Germany, but it's difficult to tell since no one would be dumb enough to admit in public that they were still Nazis. Is it coincidence that the new and improved soft Fascism is accelerating at the time that almost all of the old original Nazis or survivors of the war have died out?
We have had this phenomenon of totalitarianism before, Kertch, in lesser cultural variants. Such as the Cult Movement of the 70s. The Satanic Panic/False Memory Syndrome of the 80s/90s. Parental Alienation. Trans-insanity.
Amongst The Nazi/Communist academics who were invited to the US post-war were those who came from the Frankfurt School, and purposely spread Neo-Marxism in newly radicalized 50s/60s American universities. That virus never really died completely.
Yes...so glad I am retired. My husband and I were the only ones who spoke up about woke things when we were teaching and brought ironic examples along with us...maybe we turned a few heads and got people to actually THINK? (I guess not many with the "Teachers for Harris" signs in my areas...SMH)
We already have them with millenials, then snowflakes and the two generations behind them. That isn't going to get better. Only help is homeschooling your children
What gives me hope is that these woke ideas are being preached like fundamentalist gospel…to teenagers. Preacher’s-kid-complex is certainly happening (rebellion). What’s more is that many teens rebelling against the church of woke are turning to Christ! The pendulum is swinging and teens are more open to truth than ever before.
It is from the same playbook that Troodo of Canada used in his early years -- he kept spouting the words, "Sunny Ways....sunny ways my friends".
I suspect these were word triggers to set-off implanted behaviours. Old hypnosis/behaviouralism/brainwashing tactic. And I think the specific behaviours, in Kamala's case, were implanted in followers at the DNC.
Remember that both Troodo and Kamala Harris had Communist parents.
For anyone who is interested, you might look up the situation in Canada some years ago of the Kielburger brothers, Craig and Mark.
Craig had been the original WEF child-saint in the 90s, prior to Saint Greta of the Climates. His script said that he was supposed to eradicate world-wide child poverty, Uh-huh. His parents and Greta's parents, however, seemed to be awfully fond of wealth themselves. The senior Kielburgers eventually owned a large portfolio of prime real estate in Toronto. And went on to amass more. They were schoolteachers, btw.
But getting back to Craig, after his WEF world promotional tours as a boy, he and his brother paid a fortune for their university educations (the brother went American Ivy-league), then established a non-profit called WE. It was supposed to (you guessed it) eradicate child poverty.
Only...in Canada, WE became better known for organizing large pop music events for schoolchildren. The schools bought into this, and teachers were actually paid to ensure that full busloads of kids attended. The guise was that attendance was a treat for good behaviour. At the show, the kids were entertained by the Kielburger brothers themselves, as well as by members of the Troodo family -- JT's mother, wife, and brother. They seemed to be heavily into telling the kids to "Vote Liberal". The Liberal Party being the Troodo party.
Are you ahead of me here? Are you seeing the same set-up as the 2024 DNC? Subliminal messaging? Trigger-word implantation in unknowing subjects? When their guard is down because they think they are being treated and entertained?
I remember his mother was paid 500K tax payers dollars for her attendance at one event which cause some uproar. But as always he investigated himself and found that he did nothing wrong and once again the MSM dropped it as ordered.
That's *really* gone down the memory hole, like so many of Trudeau's near-weekly scandals. I remember thinking those two kids were grifters from the beginning, especially when they shared the stage with noted Rolling Stones groupie Maggie T.
Do you remember that enormous and unquestioned govt. grant that Troodo was going to pay the Kielburger bros....for services not quite specified? Until the public learned of this, and there was a hue and cry which proved their downfall?
They were paid Liberal party shills, the receipts were floating around during the time they sold their big property in downtown Toronto. Encapsulates his whole fetid government.
I'm thinking the staff at Aushwitz making the prisoners put on a musical Broadway comedy. For some odd reason, the entire production has a hollow feel to it.
I was at Sachsenhausen camp outside of Berlin a few years ago. They told the tale of prisoners in a string quartet playing while prisoners were unloaded from the trains and directed to the showers. A similar type of joy.
Yeah, but the Brits and Amis investigated the camps in Germany and showed that none were death camps. Also, HCN is lighter than air, so 'showers' are a poor delivery method.
There's a reason that Auschwitz is the centrepiece of the holocaust story.
Yes, currently. And there essentially was one after Trump won in 2016 -- which began the years'-long persecution and lies against him. But now, I fear, it will be far worse.
I think it is already "worse" we only think it will be worse because we will see more unrest if he does actually get to take office this time around. But the fact that the other side sees disagreement as hate is already a bad indicator.
Heh heh, as I joke to my very serious, brow furling Canadian friends/family, where are you going to move when Trump wins? you already live in Canada! Then I add they better prepare for 1/2 the USA moving north.
Not sure how funny they find this, but at least it gives me a chuckle.
I watched that interview with Mark Halperin and Tucker Carlson. I made my husband listen at the end where Mark addresses what he sincerely and honestly thinks will happen to people if Trump wins. It is a wildly scary prediction. Worth a listen.
I listened (via zoom) to Timothy Snyder talk about his new book on Democracy at a live event in Kalamazoo, MI last night. It was sponsored by some kind of democracy promoting group. As I listened, all that is in this article was on full display: we here know what danger is, who hitler was and how we are so very much for sure at risk of these terrible thinks because of you know who….who we don’t want to talk about here, but since the name has come up… as I listened, I wanted to say all that you say can happen, is happening and who is in charge? And then they go back to the Hitler references to parallels when there is no substance or depth.
The echo chamber is a padded room in an asylum. Many on the left have institutionalized themselves in a psychotic break from reality. The real danger is that MSM and Trump Derangment Substack instigate more lunatics to attempt assassinations.
Scott Peck's "The Road Less Travelled" was a groundbreaking work and so was his "People of the Lie" which is even more relevant in addressing the mess we are in today.
First Hilary and now Kamala. Are these really the best females we have to offer as presidential material? At first I thought both picks were an outward mockery of women and I hoped these terrible candidates wouldn’t be our first taste of a woman in the historic role of first female president. But then they brought in Walz and it became clear - The left is simply tone deaf. Equity hires infests their ability to make good decisions.
The best female candidate that I can remember, and one who I respect enormously, is Tulsi Gabbard. That woman is truly deserving of a senior position in government. If Trump does manage to come out ahead, in an election that seems highly suspect, she should be Secretary of State.
Maybe it's a lesson in the making. Elect Kamala, Hillary, Whitmer, et al, and it will be generations, if ever, that we entertain that unserious notion again.
Well said, as usual. I’ve been saying to my husband for many many years, that liberals live in an echo chamber. They are never faced with opposing views/ideas because every form of media they consume propagates their viewpoint.
Liberals can’t debate because they are never faced with ideas that don’t support their own positions. When they do, it’s too hard to process so they resort to yelling and name calling. This has been going on for a very long time.
Of course, El Gato lays out the position so much better and eloquently than I ever could. Well done.
oh yes...family members that fit those descriptions. I have "lost" two sisters and a BIL because they refuse to have any meaningful conversation about ANYTHING (politics/covid)- it's their way or the highway...I don't engage anymore.
I can understand not engaging with family members over this, because you have to keep the peace, or some semblance of it. On the other hand, people you meet on twitter, I will engage with. I simply will speak to them about Covid and they will have to burn calories and block me after the usual barrage of insults.
There are people who trust the establishment, because it has always been good to them. They get their view of the larger world from establishment propaganda sources because it is easiest, and because they don't feel the revulsion toward it that those of us do that have ever been burnt by it.
Once, they were the smart, tolerant ones, educated community leaders who were most in the know because they were the first to tune into the news. Now they should no longer be called "liberal," as they have become the most illiberal political faction in the country. They are simply the ones who trust and internalize whatever narrative the establishment outlets feed to them.
Their ridiculous beliefs can't survive critical examination so name calling and deflections are all they can come up with to preserve their cognitive dissonance.
You likely will not read this but I wrote it in 1970, when I was 14 because girls were behaving like morons. "All right, you women you, show those men what you can do. Work all night and come home late, you don't cook so he already ate... a few hours ago the TV Dinner that he shopped for himself but YOU'RE the winner 'cause lucky you, you buy HIM the roses and guess what YOU're the one who proposes! Yes, all those fun things like opening doors and cleaning sewers and fighting the wars." In class I said "if you girls want to be treated like men, go find yourselves someone who wants to be treated like a woman!" It was very loud suddenly, I did not look up to see who was standing and clapping. I just hate that men do what they do naturally and we are supposed to dislike it. We *can* and do compliment each other and the right partner still has plenty in common with you. I have NO qualms about my feminity a man likely does not need therapy for being male... unless he is a danger to himself and others which is a totally different topic.
That was me as a pubescent female, too. I thought then -- as I think now -- that feminism was one of the big bamboozlements of the modern age. Con-artistry supreme. Had nothing to do with women; had to do with Psychopathic political controllers pushing whatever ideology won them the most power.
The bonus win for them was that feminism Balkanized the normal relationships between men and women. A society divided against itself falls...of course. Beginning to see what they had in mind?
Jim Jones used faux-Christianity as his lure. The Neo-Marxists used feminism (which was false by its nature) as theirs -- before they branched out.
Jones was considered an enlightened, "progressive" preacher early in his career and was feted by numerous politicians, he didn't start out as a crazy outcast. Almost as if progressivism has a grim, inevitable end point to it.
Many "progressives" who fail to awaken will end-up in a deep hole. Perhaps not as severe as a Jonestown, but I think of Communist "progressives" of an earlier era and how they ended-up.
Which is exactly what modern progressivism idolizes: endless war, abortion on demand, medical euthanasia (MAiD in Canada), anarcho-tyrannical control over legal systems and nihilistic, apocalyptic beliefs regarding climate, depopulation etc. Basically Jim Jones without the shades and sideburns.
You get the award today for having grasped this. YES!
Canada? You are there too, I assume. Death Culture. MAID (largest suicide cluster in the world), abortion on demand, eugenics, apocalyptic doomsday beliefs. Trigger-words from the PM to send his mind-blind followers into their hypnotic spins.
Yup. Precisely. Jim Jones without the shades and sideburns. Psychopathy wears many costumes. As does the wolf in Red Riding Hood.....and Troodo.
...and people keep rolling along as if 'nothing to see here.' I wonder whether we'd be this nuts if we lived longer and were able to reproduce when we were smart-enough to... oh I am so bad today.
Over the years, I have become very suspicious of "isms" Many isms are way off track and harmful to their practitioners / professors and to others who don't profess the same orthodoxy. "Ism" is the stuff of religions and cults. Just go down the list of isms in your head and it becomes obvious. Though, I do relate to stoicism.
Oligarchs weren't making any money from women staying home and raising kids. They also wanted to indoctrinate children so getting women on the payroll and out of kids lives is what Feminism was actually about. Wage slavery was the goal.
Since when are Democrats suddenly all worried about someone not being "loyal to the Constitution"? Just 3 seconds ago it was a terrible document established by white supremacists, and before that it was a "living, breathing" document that they could mold to their own purposes.
Actually, they are still saying that it needs to go, with its free speech and all, at the same time they are bemoaning the fact that Trump supposedly wants to discard it in favor of fascism.
The only science these people understand is the science of punishment.
And just like every socialist/fascist/communists regime the collective responsibility boils down to the method and process being one in the same
It's a very similar method and process as the "shock-workers" (a devised scheme, ostensibly, for the common good) from the Russian gulags where prisoners who attained "shock" status would get a slightly reduced sentence (the motivation) ...but refused to leave the camp because...wait for it....THE COLLECTIVE.
And that my friends was the purpose of the process and the method being the same.
As far as "mandating joy"...well...what they really want is a collective organism, living, working, eating, sleeping, and suffering together in pitiless and forced symbiosis.
In other words they do not believe in the individual and that is the source of their contempt, blindness, cruelty and worldview.
Which sounds familiar to "we're all in it together" and "if it saves just one life".
Never mind that in order to be all in it together or to just save one life, is tantamount to saying we must destroy many lives, in reality, to save one life on paper.
Whoops i accidentally pasted this from my clipboard. This is mostly a post as a reply to someone on another stack...however it does tangentially apply here...so I'll leave it.
To express straightforward--sometimes blunt--sometimes satiric viewpoints without conciliatory preamble is perceived as male.
And that will make a considerable number of women and their little men helpers swarm in fury. Truly deranged hysteria and they will try to crush you with their mass and if you are uncrushable they will exile you. Because what you've done smells too uncompromisingly male.
It was very funny to me when I discovered, starting about 14 years ago, that in online places attracting comparable numbers of women and men, I always found myself sitting at the guys' table because the viewpoints sorted themselves out that way. It just happened.
But don't think conservative men are incapable of behaving in exactly the same way, because some of them do. That is continually proven to me on Substack. There are only a handful of parlors where one can disagree and the host won't get seriously bent out of shape to be challenged.
It takes great self-assurance to be able to handle all comers equally. Rigidity of thinking is not in the least entirely the left's affliction. It's just they're the majority in the public sphere these days.
“a person who is their ideas” rather than “a person who has ideas.”
This is the hallmark of people who suffer from narcissistic personality disorder.
They have no Freudian EGO and are ruled by their ID (limbic/reptilian brain) and a pseudo super-ego (which is not a super-ego at all...it is actually the voice in their head that forms all of their self criticism-an angry, absent, non-supportive parent, that foists shame around their necks like an anvil and chains).
Because they have no EGO (they cannot differentiate reality from their internalized image of what they "feel" the outside world is). They then invent (subconsciously) a false ego and become a "person of their ideas" rather than a "person with ideas".
They have to do this because they are not a PERSON as they have no EGO that balances their ID with a super-ego (societal norms/morality/conscience). They are empty shells...petulant beings...who are completely emotionally dis-regulated, and who have a failure in object relations (i.e. they are gods in their own mind, anyone else who does not agree with them are wrong and are to be shamed....they CANNOT accept and deviation from what they imagine the the world to be...they are actually living in a delusion where they are the supreme being).
You cannot begin to wrap your head around why they do what they do, unless you completely understand that they suffer from classic narcissistic personality disorder, along with different degrees of other personality B disorders. Their emotional dis-regulation absolutely PROVES this.
Essentially, they have the emotional age of about a 1.5 to 3 year old.
They were unable to develop a true sense of their own self do to some sort of complex trauma they endured in their formative years.
They cannot imagine a world where another being disagrees with their delusional world view, because they do not interact with the outside world in a normal fashion.
They interact with the interjects of the outside world that they have created in their own mind (which usually is an inaccurate representation of the outside world). Because of this, any variance between their view of the outside world, and a position of someone in the outside world is viewed purely as a THREAT to their existence.
Does this make sense?
People with this personality have a tendency to by highly in favor of authoritarian regimes. They need the outside world to march in lock-step with their own delusion, so that it can give them narcissistic supply, confirming that they are in fact "right" and providing them with higher "status" in society.
I am not making this crap up. It is all in the psychological studies on the topic.
Its the dirty little secret no one wants to talk about, to whit:
100%. BUT, this is nothing new. It has been written about for thousands of years (the book of genesis e.g. adam, eve and the serpent, cain and abel) the stories are legion.
What IS new is the societal reach of the woke, cluster b mind virus due to the internet, social media, and smart phones. It is not a coincidence that this mind virus began to "take off" in approximately 2012 (when smart phones became ubiquitous among adolescent youth).
The study doesn't mention smart phones, its just declares 2012 to be the year mental health problems saw a dramatic increase among adolescent youth. You don't have to be a rocket scientist for make the connection to pocket social media devices.
IT is bigger than a cult. It is a mind virus or probably more accurately a "mass psychogenic illness".
ps. I have come to the conclusion that the only way to combat this destructive trend is through effective cross-examination i.e. ask them questions to flood their minds with extreme cognitive dissonance. This overwhelms their psyche, and forces them to either 1. go to an emotional extreme and lash out (and make a huge mistake for all to see) or 2. retreat back under the rock from which they crawled.
They have to be managed, marginalized, and ultimately ridiculed for their insanity.
This is heavy to say, but we might be witnessing a natural phenomenon, a process by which nature brings a society back into line with nature's objectives. Of course this process would be triggered by a social that ventures outside nature's parameters, failing in its basic natural functions. What's causing this could be the same thing that's causing the drop off in birth rates.
An adolescent brain has no regulation on the GABA / dopamine system, so when they get dopamine hits from their devices (and porn, especially porn) - it re-wires the brain. Not in a human way, either.
This is one of the best pieces written by el gato. At first, it was amusing that people were so dedicated to their left leanings, but there appears to be some outright insanity taking over. I watched a short video yesterday on a ring camera where a sixty-ish woman went to the door of a stranger who had a Trump sign in their year. She started telling the homeowner she was crazy and then started throwing the F-word around and giving the one-finger salute as she left. It was pure insanity. If Trump manages to overcome the cheating this time, I have no idea how the insanity will manifest itself. But it will be very bad because the Democrats have lost all reason.
Saw Trump signs knocked down in a neighbor's yard this morning on our bike ride (it hasn't been windy)- this is a 55+ community and someone was triggered by this! A 75 yr. old was arrested in our community for going on to private property and taking down Trump signs. But somehow "we" are deranged, want to put people in camps and censor speech? It's so amazing to me that the same people cannot see the irony in their statements and actions- must have been something in the shots/boosters to bring this on....HAS to be..right?
It's the party of projection. Everything they accuse others of is that which they are guilty of doing. Everything.
Exactly. They scream we are facists. Turn around then and ask them to define "fascism." They can't. All you get is there group think reaction - deer in headlights look.
This has been a new phenomenon appearing in several countries under election conditions. That of the leftwing WOKE vandalizing signs of their opponents. Part of spreading Cancel Culture.
Or....what those who are part of the dysfunctional totalitarian groups will do when anyone questions or dissents to their narratives. They will SHUN/SMEAR/PUNISH. Always. Litmus test for totalitarianism.
The newest variant of this behaviour is in vandalizing election signs of anyone who fails to support their WOKE narrative.
A little bit of wishful thinking there. Those poisons probably CAN interfere with our thinking, but the kind of behavior in these stories has to come from somewhere inside. Always there, and waiting to be released
It was a joke...but really how does one become a liberal? My parents raised all of us the same...two of my sisters are unhappy libs always blaming others for their failures. I try to go back and look for a defining moment...maybe because we made fun of her when she got glasses????? haha
I thought it might have been sarcasm.
Families are funny. Same house and environment, but totally different life experience. My uncle told people that he was hungry and had nothing growing up. My mother said she had enough food and thought everyone was poor so it didn’t bother her.
Personality has so much to do with it
My late oldest brother was a die hard liberal. I'm an an-cap. My other brother couldn't care less about politics. We were all raised by the same conservative devout Catholic parents. I think it's a wiring issue!
I wonder when the short circuit happened with individuals I know....
What colleges did they attend?
Same as me...(Kent State Univ in the 70s- pretty radical then)- and only one sister took advantage of getting the degree. Two others did not...they are all libs.
That is the $64K - may be $64M, now - question.
Evil is lurking inside of all of us. These people have gone full on demonic as God has given them over to their delusions just as He said He would.
Although there are more Harris signs in my neighborhood, the vast majority of homes aren’t advertising their choices. I’m hoping that more Harris signs indicates that the Dems are panicking.
Yes they have to show their "solidarity"- just like mask FB profile photos and pix of "look I am getting my third booster shot, to protect others" - yowsers!
Just like when they put up the BLM signs virtue signaling that "all lives matter." The hypocrisy of it was too hysterical - they will slaughter the pre-born, but "all lives matter!" Well, their lives unless you are a white, straight male.
I think it's safe to assume that most of the houses without any signs are voting Trump. I don't know anyone who loves Harris and isn't sporting a sign.
That’s my hope 🤞
The solution? Move.
Not an isolated example. I keep thinking of the movie "They Live". We don't even need the special glasses to pick out the aliens!
The blatant, in your face, lying is getting to me.
Why do political people lie the way they do - when it is so obvious to most people that they are lying?
Is it because one political consultant tells them that it works; and then another tells them “they all do it”?
Is it because in the short term it gives an advantage, and in the long term the lie will be forgotten - after all, all that matters is winning.
Case in point: Harris at the naval observatory; she turned my stomach/ made me cringe . . . no shame,none at all.
All politicians lie, but Trumps lies are like the ones you hear in a bar or locker room; Harris’ are like what you hear from a used car dealer, or at a casino, from a prostitute or a con man who wants to trick you out of your winnings or inheritance, or wants you to sign up for a very high interest loan.
There’s got to be a better way to select “leaders”.
I recently came to the realization that the lies and hypocrisy are features, not bugs. That's why pointing out examples of such does not bother them in the slightest. They don't even try to defend themselves when confronted. Getting away with blatant lies and hypocrisy is proof that THEY have power over everyone else, and that they are above not just the law but basic social norms. Just like they'll show off their wealth, they'll show off their privilege-- it's like a badge of honor to them when they get away with something. The Enlightenment idea of equality is completely foreign to them.
Also proves they are narcissists and can gaslight the crap out of the public
Confused people are so easy to control.
It’s as if they’re competing to be the best, biggest, most adept, most outrageous, liar; and if they win, they’ll have carte Blanche to lie to us for four years, or maybe more. Certified liter in chief.
So and so said that guy said this so….
Reminds me of High School
This AM I couldn't turn off 'Morning Joe' for the first 15 minutes because of the irrational comments being made. It's difficult to imagine how far some ppl will bend to justify their position.
And WHY??? What is in it for them??? I don't get it...
There are at least 2 possible explanations: the network hires irrational people or the commentators go along with the approved narrative to keep thier job.
I'm thinking the latter.
As for media pundits, if you don't have to be intellectually consistent, ever, it's possible for a lower-IQ person to hold that job.
True. It's probably easy for them. Lower IQ - or, as I mentioned in my comment, pharmacologically throttled IQ in normal IQ but mentally medicated persons, because that impairs complex reasoning.
Totally agree, Cheryl. Probably a combination of salary, toeing the network line, a certain prestige in the rarefied air that they live in...
Here is a terrific article from EL GATO MALO - if you don't already subscribe to his SS - on the subject:
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/joy-will-be-mandatory?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=323914&post_id=150143556&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=b7jkn&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
You might want to learn about the spectrum of Cluster-B, and how it influences anyone from a single individual to a whole population.
In a personal relationship or family group, it might be called Borderline/Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Across most of a population, it is called the Psychopathic rule, or Pathocracy. Another word for totalitarianism.
A is a troll.
Well, I have to say, that when I once disagreed with Susan Daniels, and one of her supporters started flinging the "A-hole" word at me, Susan was gleefully egging him on. Then she banned me from her Substack, removing all my posts. After I had spent many comments complimenting her on her work. Which I meant, at the time.
Therefore, pot calling kettle black, in her post above.
You never can tell. Sometimes people flip.
Well said. We need to be careful that we don't get trapped in our own echo chambers. Defensive reactions are natural, and it takes a well-grounded person to overcome them and really listen to the other side.
Thank you, Kertch.
So true, Kertch.
A, who is afraid to intentify himself, you are a liar. I would never encourage that kind of behavior. Last time I banned you for your nasty posts for twenty-four hours. The next time it will be permanently.
Ketch—I'm watching you. You subscribed to me but don't have a single post to your name. I was born at night but it was not last night.
I have NO idea who you are, but you might think twice while flinging the " afraid to identify himself" insult here in the land of el gato malo. We've already dissected thst stance and found it baseless.
Then ignore her if you disagree with her!
Aren't you the one who just posted that "Narcissists can gaslight the Hell out of the public"? And you went on about evil?
So, ignoring it all will do the trick?
You do not seem to know the signs when you see it. You seem to contradict yourself. Are you one of Susan's Flying Monkeys? She has a few of them doing her bidding here.
I don’t know either of you or what your political leanings are. Susan seems rational enough but “A.”… they needs therapy urgently. Is Trump to blame?
Thank you.
"I came here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubblegum!"
RIP Rowdy Roddy Piper!
Insanity will prevail, yes of course.
I am gonna pretend it is a comedy show. I hope that works...😬
Clown World War.
At first, it was funny, but no longer. Insane people are not funny. They’re dangerous.
good coping strategy...I hope we have the last laugh!
or we can watch cartoons all day and slam the door on reality
I will never just shut out reality...I just don't want to have to fight for reality (ie truth) about anything anymore...weary
Good way to look at it... unless we're in the gulag. 😳
El Gato is one of the best, but this post hits the nail on the head re a key, maybe foundational problem - the isolating group-think and closed-mindedness of a now dominate segment of “Liberals”. To me the biggest question is how they got where they are, and can they ever be salvaged.
I am probably best described as an agnostic, but I think the crux of the problem may be the turning away from religion. Aside from the mystical / spiritual aspects of religion; religion spends a lot of time telling / reminding us of how we should live, how we should relate to others, you know, right v wrong. And almost all religions do a pretty good job at this.
So some of us have turned to politics in lieu of religion, and politics is a very poor substitute (it’s obvious). It may be that we need to “submit” as some say to some form of actual religion, to balance our lives, and live naturally. And religions need to try harder to be believed.
Left wing ideology is the most fundamentalist religion in existence. The blind faith in absurd narratives is worship to them. Any questioning of dogma gets you excommunicated.
Yes, the word "pious" best describes them in my workplace, where they dominate. They have their confessions in the form of DEI statements and rules for what you can eat (nothing from Nestle!), and you're definitely a heretic if you don't agree enthusiastically. It's a cult.
I could not agree with you more. I don’t think of myself as religious but I am spiritual. I don’t believe in organized religion because I think we all have an internal one that controls our behavior and, mostly, gets people to do the right things in life.
Well then you are not listening.
God said in the Bible that He would give people over to their delusions in the last days. Well..................
I saw that same video Susan. It was frightening to see how unhinged that woman became. All I could think was, I’d be getting a PFA
What's a PFA?
Protection From Abuse. It may be called something else around you.
Most states TRO: Temporary Restraining Order.
PO: Protective Order.
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Mark Halperin was interviewed by Tucker recently and he said Trump winning the election would cause one of the biggest, most widespread mental health crises of all time. Their carefully crafted reality cannot handle it. I suspect we will see child-like temper tantrums in the form of violence in the blue cities.
I think it will be a lot worse than temper tantrums.
People need to wake up to that fact. Leo Hohmann just did a great Substack article on that very point.
One the one hand I can't see the Kamala voters et al having enough individual humility to coalesce around plotting retribution towards the other side. But they do all seem to be motivated by their hatred of Trump so perhaps their bitterness of a Republican victory might just supersede their ability to think of oneself as the smartest one of the bunch.
I could very well be wrong, but I just don't see the coordinated support for widespread violence if/when Harris loses. If anything, Dem leaders may choose to "save" violent riots until Trump is in office as a way to sabotage and discredit his term and throw things into chaos.
Whether it happens now or later, I do expect we will see civil unrest perpetrated by insane leftists in the next few years.
Did you not live here in 2020 or witness the Ferguson, MO fiasco?
Kamala does not actually believe this, because why would she volunteer to get into a debate with an actual fascist? Second, what actual fascist would agree to the farce of a debate?
I wonder about this. There is a top of the lefty pyramid, in other words, supreme manipulators who develop the narrative and create the latest "evidence" that Trump is a fascist. It stands to reason that those people, at least, know it's bullshit. So the problem of the sheeple may be solved on its own, if team reality can rip down the curtain and fully expose the liars. Alternative media / social media have been able to do this to some extent, luring a steady stream of former Dems to remove their blinders. Is this sufficient to reach critical mass? Maybe. But those who remain now don't want to be bothered thinking for themselves. These fools live to join the elite club by giving the right password, and will therefore always fall prey to architects of evil. The spell may never break until something huge and irrefutable happens to blow up their dream world. I hope for their sake, it's not the covid reckoning that Geert warns about.
This is currently happening right at this moment. Town clerk is out with a map checking to make sure signs aren’t on town py.
Sounds like the 'old busybodies' who loved to spread the latest town gossip about who didn't go to church last Sunday and what teenager was in the 'family way'... ad nauseam.
These kind of people LOVED Covid times...
Especially if they could snitch on someone a la in Minnesota -- "... Walz's coronavirus policies were extremely heavy-handed and restrictive; under his leadership, the state endured the pandemic in a fundamentally anti-libertarian fashion."
"He even defended Minnesota's ridiculous hotline for COVID-19 snitches. That's right: Walz's government maintained a method for people to report their neighbors for failing to abide by social distancing rules."
"And though Walz instructed police to merely issue citations to people caught violating stay-at-home orders—which is still bad enough—he also maintained the right, via executive order, to issue $1,000 fines and send violators to jail for 90 days." 😳
https://reason.com/2024/08/06/tim-walz-was-a-covid-19-tyrant/
Now let’s do the riots that happened on his watch… smh
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He's been hitting it out of the park over the last several months.
It IS amazing that they have such little insight into their own behavior. Maybe it's because they are always looking to 'tell' on anyone who - to them - is breaking the rules. A Karen or Chad on steroids, if you will.
Ha! I was going to post that video as a perfect example: https://tinyurl.com/3zyz7bw5
The insanity, as I have explained to you many times before, is a form of totalitarianism. Most specifically known as Pathocracy, or rule by political Psychopaths.
You need to better inform yourself about these issues, Susan. You seem to operate on a few instincts, but no background knowledge in terms of the actual principles at play here.
You could do worse than to read and study Andrew Lobaczewski's "Political Ponerology" (2nd ed.)
You nailed it, Susan!
I think you might want to re-assess what you think of Susan Daniels. Several of us have had to. Not what she seems at first.
Just leave it alone
So, Tired Citizen.....you call the shots, do you? You tell the rest of us what opinions we can have, and what we may post? You're as bad as she is.
Turning a blind eye to this behaviour of Susan's never solved it. But then again, you could be one of her friends or grown children, skewing the issue for her here., She is quite manipulative. She would resort to that kind of trick.
And here we go with the preschool antics. Thanks. Just showed who YOU are. I personally have more to do in life than to stoop down to your level. Good luch.
Yes...as I said....Susan must have arranged for someone like you to post this drivel. To try to salvage her reputation after she blew it.
Go away, Tired Citizen. Stop attempting to control others.
Thank you.
Confession by Accusation
Necessary course corrections are never pretty, but here we are.
As with any cult, they either are disbanded externally or implode internally, Jim Jones-fashion and I think we'll be seeing a *lot* of micro-level, personal Jonestowns *very* soon. Our job is to limit the damage they cause, clean up the mess and build something better.
I agree. But I also say burn and salt the fields.
However i don't think the world is ending; just the illusion.
To me helping people understand that is part of the "clean up".
We might be able to help some, but how can we help if we cannot speak their language?
See i think the first step is we must not allow them to change language or nuance. A common "language" is crucial key to sharing time-experience with others.
Force them to confront reality. If they won't its just opportunity cost for us. Memes are a way to do this; that's why they throw tantrums and get upset because reality clashes with their worldview.
But, indeed many are lost...just like the people who keep taking the vaxx. There's no going back because reality is kryptonite to their worldview; they'd have to face up to sunk costs and the fact that they are not morally superior.
Who would want to confront that?
I remember Michael Savage's line "Borders...language...culture." And here we are. If I leave my house and interface with others, besides those who speak English but will not hear, inevitably I hear foreign tongues everywhere. I have no idea what they are saying and they have plenty of company, which negates the need to learn English. These are the ones I think about. Will we be able to use the universal language of a smile, and open our arms, inviting them into our homes?
Real Rule of Law, official English, and the need to find work are great integrators. This is how our immigrant ancestors became Americans. If you couldn't speak English, you had a hard time finding work, or communicating with coworkers, and without work you were doomed to poverty. Strong motivator.
What's even more insidious is changing definitions in the still of the night like with vaccine and herd immunity.
How many people know the definitions were changed...maybe 5%.
This is a way to quietly change/eliminate history by removing sign post on the map of reality.
I was thinking about my grandparents, they were some of those immigrants. My mother (the first of the offspring to get a high school diploma) and her siblings could speak the native tongue. My grandparents spoke broken English, but could understand us. Things have changed. Back then,, they wanted to become Americans and had to learn the language. Nowadays, not so much.
"without work you were doomed to poverty"
That WAS indeed the case - three, or even two generations ago. Today, not so much. We have somehow severed the connection between self-reliance and work. And replaced it with dependency and welfare.
"our immigrant ancestors became Americans"
Too many of today's immigrants choose instead to become parasites, living off of Americans.
Funny that in the early 1900s immigrant parents WANTED their children to 'speak English'. A hundred+ years later we are encouraging a Tower of Babel culture.
Never. Our country has been invaded by millions across our borders (or even in planes). They have been put here for a reason.
Think about Germany or Japan after WWII, or Russians after the fall of the USSR. People walking around with shocked, blank looks on their faces and nothing to say.
"Force them to confront reality."
Is that not the core problem? Many of these unfortunate souls are, sadly, unable to accept, or in many cases, even perceive reality. They live in a world devoid of humanity, able only to chant the mantras of their cult.
In our centuries of exposure to cults, we have certainly learned to de-program individuals - but how do we bring hundreds of millions back to sanity?
Yeah for some.
I want to say to them:
"You might be in a cult if you don't recognize a situation where any sane person would recognize they'd be whistling past the graveyard if participating in similar behavior/activity; a situation where the cult members participation is strictly objective"
I submit that those not in the 'cool crowd' have catered to their demands & coddled their notions far too long. There are limits. And they need to be adhered to.
Logical consequences is always a great equalizer.
Only the TV can tell them what to think..
Yes, absolutely. But I also think there may be many on the left that have this identical thought about us. After all, they see us as deranged fascists wanting to destroy democracy. Even though that is worthy of LOL, it's a good thought experiment.
I am certain that is the case but I haven't see any videos of conservatives/Republicans/Libertarians... destroying the other side's campaign signs or going out of their way to tell the other side how wrong they are - to wit - the lady who went up on the porch & rang the bell to excoriate the homeowner and cursing along with it.
Another example of this the of behavior - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nOu0WiuSIo
Here is the statement of the young man who was on the receiving end of her diatribe:
"Just had the craziest experience ever on an airplane:
I’m boarding my flight from Baltimore to Seattle and approach my seat. I had an upgraded seat that I paid a little extra for because of the long 6 hour flight. As I approach my row I smile and motion to the husband and wife sitting in the aisle and middle seat that Imy seat was next to the window. I put my backpack in the overhead and the wife with a very stern voice says to me:
“Did you come here to cheer or to protest?”
“I came here to celebrate democracy ma’am”
… I knew this was going to be a long flight at this point. She then proceeded with: (somewhat paraphrased as my memory allows)
Her: “You put a crazed man in charge of the nuclear codes! You should be ashamed!”
Me: ‘Well we’re all entitled to our opinions here ma’am.”
Her: “And I’m entitled to get drunk and puke in your lap! I’m going to throw up right in your lap! You make me sick! Don’t talk to me! Don’t look at me! Don’t you dare even put your arm on that rest. You disgust me! You should be ashamed of yourself! You put a maniac’s finger on the button” (assuming she’s means nukes). You are a bigot. You should get off this plane!”
Me: “ma’am, by definition, bigotry is disparaging someone prior to knowing them simply by their beliefs and opinions. Thank you for being the very thing you preach against.”
She the proceeded with other various rantings such as my lack of critical thinking and other insults. Finally a flight attendant came over as you will see in the video followed by a supervisor informing that she would have to deboard the plane per captains orders.
After much fuss, airport police came and removed her from the plane. The lady across from me filmed that and was gracious to sent it to me. Many others around me defended me insisting the lady had caused all the commotion and was verbally assaulting not just me but others wearing various Trump apparel boarding the plane.
As the lady was removed I saw that I was surrounded by blacks, Latinos, Asians, and whites, all who had chimed in asking her to be removed and who had defended me. I was touched and moved knowing later that not all these people were trump supporters. The black man who took the seat next to me was a registered Democrat and he and I had a very good discussion about the beauty of free speech and coming together when people insult and commit acts of violence just for having differing views.
It truly was a great demonstration of AMERICA and its people coming together and standing up for one another. Hope you enjoy."
I will take fascism over communism - at least people were still eating and running businesses...unless of course you were Jewish... pay attention.
I don't think we have the resources or patience to "deprogram" members of this cult. I'm thinking that shock treatment in the form of "reality immersion" is the only option. Next we have impose rigorous standards, an "unforgiving meritocracy" so to speak, and the de-glorification of victimhood.
I would like to thank the genius among our forefathers who instituted the American Thanksgiving AFTER Election Day. I’m reasonably sure that has historically avoided bloodshed within my family and possibly others.
I do sometimes wish they'd kill themselves, but more likely they'll kill us. 😞
Another possible outcome.
I'm a HS biology teacher in California. Once at a team meeting a teacher said it was extremely important to teach climate change because we needed to make sure the students knew how to vote right. The others were all shaking their heads in agreement. I spoke up and said it wasn't our jobs to teach kids how they should vote. I was verbally attacked by them all. It's going to be a long haul to sanity when kids are getting this for 13+ years in school. And this is just one of the many crazy things I could share.
These kids will be the lost generation. Many of them, at least.
I don't know. Teenagers in Nazi Germany managed to cope after 1945 despite years of propaganda. Young people still have flexible minds. It's mostly us old folks who are set in our ways.
Sounds like an equivalent of "De-Wokification" needs occur on a similar scale as De-Nazification.
I looked into that concept actually, FL. About what the De-Nazification program was all about. Because Nazism was a form of psychopathically-inspired totalitarianism just as is the phenomenon the West is going through right now.
The king-pin of that program seemed to have been that a new authority was put in place, when the Allied Forces took over. Non-Nazis. Although, the American govt. did hire many former Nazi scientists/academics, and imported them to these shores. Which introduced a fly to the ointment. Because they had not necessarily foresworn their earlier allegiances.
Like cult followers, a number of them escaped the mental grip......and others did not.
Depends whether a new healthy authority is put in place, and whether people are able to shake off the alliance with the old. There are some very elderly persons still today who proclaim Nazism due to their early German experiences. And then there are others, as you say, who rebounded nicely.
Not many people know that the actual Nazi's won WW2. Oligarchs who brought Hitler to power, financed and sold arms to both sides of the war, then profited by rebuilding what they destroyed are still running the show.
I'd say the majority of them rebounded nicely, focusing on the rebuilding of Germany, but it's difficult to tell since no one would be dumb enough to admit in public that they were still Nazis. Is it coincidence that the new and improved soft Fascism is accelerating at the time that almost all of the old original Nazis or survivors of the war have died out?
We have had this phenomenon of totalitarianism before, Kertch, in lesser cultural variants. Such as the Cult Movement of the 70s. The Satanic Panic/False Memory Syndrome of the 80s/90s. Parental Alienation. Trans-insanity.
Amongst The Nazi/Communist academics who were invited to the US post-war were those who came from the Frankfurt School, and purposely spread Neo-Marxism in newly radicalized 50s/60s American universities. That virus never really died completely.
True, but we've never had it on this scale in the West and with such fervent state support.
True. Terrible price paid by the world, though, before they got to that point.
Yes...so glad I am retired. My husband and I were the only ones who spoke up about woke things when we were teaching and brought ironic examples along with us...maybe we turned a few heads and got people to actually THINK? (I guess not many with the "Teachers for Harris" signs in my areas...SMH)
hoo boy, that must have been a bucket load of fun.
People are so messed up now.
HR departments nationwide are utterly packed with these lunatics...
We already have them with millenials, then snowflakes and the two generations behind them. That isn't going to get better. Only help is homeschooling your children
What gives me hope is that these woke ideas are being preached like fundamentalist gospel…to teenagers. Preacher’s-kid-complex is certainly happening (rebellion). What’s more is that many teens rebelling against the church of woke are turning to Christ! The pendulum is swinging and teens are more open to truth than ever before.
The whole "Kamala/Joy" thing has an "Arbeit Macht Frei" feel to it.
It is from the same playbook that Troodo of Canada used in his early years -- he kept spouting the words, "Sunny Ways....sunny ways my friends".
I suspect these were word triggers to set-off implanted behaviours. Old hypnosis/behaviouralism/brainwashing tactic. And I think the specific behaviours, in Kamala's case, were implanted in followers at the DNC.
Remember that both Troodo and Kamala Harris had Communist parents.
For anyone who is interested, you might look up the situation in Canada some years ago of the Kielburger brothers, Craig and Mark.
Craig had been the original WEF child-saint in the 90s, prior to Saint Greta of the Climates. His script said that he was supposed to eradicate world-wide child poverty, Uh-huh. His parents and Greta's parents, however, seemed to be awfully fond of wealth themselves. The senior Kielburgers eventually owned a large portfolio of prime real estate in Toronto. And went on to amass more. They were schoolteachers, btw.
But getting back to Craig, after his WEF world promotional tours as a boy, he and his brother paid a fortune for their university educations (the brother went American Ivy-league), then established a non-profit called WE. It was supposed to (you guessed it) eradicate child poverty.
Only...in Canada, WE became better known for organizing large pop music events for schoolchildren. The schools bought into this, and teachers were actually paid to ensure that full busloads of kids attended. The guise was that attendance was a treat for good behaviour. At the show, the kids were entertained by the Kielburger brothers themselves, as well as by members of the Troodo family -- JT's mother, wife, and brother. They seemed to be heavily into telling the kids to "Vote Liberal". The Liberal Party being the Troodo party.
Are you ahead of me here? Are you seeing the same set-up as the 2024 DNC? Subliminal messaging? Trigger-word implantation in unknowing subjects? When their guard is down because they think they are being treated and entertained?
Well, you suspicious old things, you...😁
I remember his mother was paid 500K tax payers dollars for her attendance at one event which cause some uproar. But as always he investigated himself and found that he did nothing wrong and once again the MSM dropped it as ordered.
That's *really* gone down the memory hole, like so many of Trudeau's near-weekly scandals. I remember thinking those two kids were grifters from the beginning, especially when they shared the stage with noted Rolling Stones groupie Maggie T.
Do you remember that enormous and unquestioned govt. grant that Troodo was going to pay the Kielburger bros....for services not quite specified? Until the public learned of this, and there was a hue and cry which proved their downfall?
They were paid Liberal party shills, the receipts were floating around during the time they sold their big property in downtown Toronto. Encapsulates his whole fetid government.
Counting down the days, I am ....
Maybe Liberal shills. More likely WEF agents, follow the money.
Arrive at Mark Carney.
Interesting, never heard of it. Love St. Greta of the climates. 🤣
I know. Great rank/status for the little skunk
"If only you submit to tyranny will you be free!" Yup, Kamala scares the crap out of me.
Strength through Joy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strength_Through_Joy
I'm thinking the staff at Aushwitz making the prisoners put on a musical Broadway comedy. For some odd reason, the entire production has a hollow feel to it.
I was at Sachsenhausen camp outside of Berlin a few years ago. They told the tale of prisoners in a string quartet playing while prisoners were unloaded from the trains and directed to the showers. A similar type of joy.
Yeah, but the Brits and Amis investigated the camps in Germany and showed that none were death camps. Also, HCN is lighter than air, so 'showers' are a poor delivery method.
There's a reason that Auschwitz is the centrepiece of the holocaust story.
Joy for the Atlanticists and Lockheed!
Joy is US" rules and norms imposed on targets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strength_Through_Joy
And also “ Kraft durch Freude”….
Gato you are really hitting your stride.
Mark Halprin recently opined that when Trump wins there is going to be a serious and real mental health crisis in our nation.
I couldn’t agree more.
There already is one.
Yes, currently. And there essentially was one after Trump won in 2016 -- which began the years'-long persecution and lies against him. But now, I fear, it will be far worse.
I think it is already "worse" we only think it will be worse because we will see more unrest if he does actually get to take office this time around. But the fact that the other side sees disagreement as hate is already a bad indicator.
But… is there a vaccine???😂😂😂😂
Hopefully they’ll emigrate like they promised last time.
Heh heh, as I joke to my very serious, brow furling Canadian friends/family, where are you going to move when Trump wins? you already live in Canada! Then I add they better prepare for 1/2 the USA moving north.
Not sure how funny they find this, but at least it gives me a chuckle.
I watched that interview with Mark Halperin and Tucker Carlson. I made my husband listen at the end where Mark addresses what he sincerely and honestly thinks will happen to people if Trump wins. It is a wildly scary prediction. Worth a listen.
I listened (via zoom) to Timothy Snyder talk about his new book on Democracy at a live event in Kalamazoo, MI last night. It was sponsored by some kind of democracy promoting group. As I listened, all that is in this article was on full display: we here know what danger is, who hitler was and how we are so very much for sure at risk of these terrible thinks because of you know who….who we don’t want to talk about here, but since the name has come up… as I listened, I wanted to say all that you say can happen, is happening and who is in charge? And then they go back to the Hitler references to parallels when there is no substance or depth.
How could you stand to listen? I would have gone looking for Jim Jones myself after sitting through that event.
I almost turned it off, but soldiered through in the spirit of keeping up with opposing viewpoints.
The echo chamber is a padded room in an asylum. Many on the left have institutionalized themselves in a psychotic break from reality. The real danger is that MSM and Trump Derangment Substack instigate more lunatics to attempt assassinations.
See the work of psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist in this regard, a brilliant scholar and analyst reminiscent of M Scott Peck.
I think that M Scott Peck is shallow by comparison. Thanks for the ref to McGilchrist, I am enjoying working through his vids.
Scott Peck's "The Road Less Travelled" was a groundbreaking work and so was his "People of the Lie" which is even more relevant in addressing the mess we are in today.
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Group think is germinated in the public school system and crystallized in college. Ending this institutional mind rape is the key.
Nailed it...and succinctly at that.
Might need to quote you in the future..thanks !
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First Hilary and now Kamala. Are these really the best females we have to offer as presidential material? At first I thought both picks were an outward mockery of women and I hoped these terrible candidates wouldn’t be our first taste of a woman in the historic role of first female president. But then they brought in Walz and it became clear - The left is simply tone deaf. Equity hires infests their ability to make good decisions.
The best female candidate that I can remember, and one who I respect enormously, is Tulsi Gabbard. That woman is truly deserving of a senior position in government. If Trump does manage to come out ahead, in an election that seems highly suspect, she should be Secretary of State.
I like it. I also think Trump should bring in Shellenberger, Taibbi and Elon into his administration in some capacity.
It would also be awesome to see Greenwald as his press secretary. He'd destroy the pressititutes...it'd be must watch TV.
If Greenwald was the press secretary I would again have a TV in the house.
Greenwald - make it happen! He’s so witty as well.
C'mon, who's not looking forward to having the mother in law from hell running the country?
The left could have chosen Tulsi Gabbard, before she became Republican. There's a woman I could have voted for!
They are idiots. She would have easily beaten Trump and is now his ally.
Maybe it's a lesson in the making. Elect Kamala, Hillary, Whitmer, et al, and it will be generations, if ever, that we entertain that unserious notion again.
Why did Hillary get away with calling half the people in the country deplorables? Has Trump said anything close to that?
Heh…and she wonders why she lost.
They are the people the puppeteers can control
Well said, as usual. I’ve been saying to my husband for many many years, that liberals live in an echo chamber. They are never faced with opposing views/ideas because every form of media they consume propagates their viewpoint.
Liberals can’t debate because they are never faced with ideas that don’t support their own positions. When they do, it’s too hard to process so they resort to yelling and name calling. This has been going on for a very long time.
Of course, El Gato lays out the position so much better and eloquently than I ever could. Well done.
oh yes...family members that fit those descriptions. I have "lost" two sisters and a BIL because they refuse to have any meaningful conversation about ANYTHING (politics/covid)- it's their way or the highway...I don't engage anymore.
I can understand not engaging with family members over this, because you have to keep the peace, or some semblance of it. On the other hand, people you meet on twitter, I will engage with. I simply will speak to them about Covid and they will have to burn calories and block me after the usual barrage of insults.
It's called "Outsourcing your Critical Thinking".
exactly...like with the non vaxx-vaxx they could be told "if you're not dead in 4 hours....please call your doctor"....and they'd still take it!
Or with GCC, "if your not dead in 4 years please consult with a Climate Scientologist!"
There are people who trust the establishment, because it has always been good to them. They get their view of the larger world from establishment propaganda sources because it is easiest, and because they don't feel the revulsion toward it that those of us do that have ever been burnt by it.
Once, they were the smart, tolerant ones, educated community leaders who were most in the know because they were the first to tune into the news. Now they should no longer be called "liberal," as they have become the most illiberal political faction in the country. They are simply the ones who trust and internalize whatever narrative the establishment outlets feed to them.
Their ridiculous beliefs can't survive critical examination so name calling and deflections are all they can come up with to preserve their cognitive dissonance.
You likely will not read this but I wrote it in 1970, when I was 14 because girls were behaving like morons. "All right, you women you, show those men what you can do. Work all night and come home late, you don't cook so he already ate... a few hours ago the TV Dinner that he shopped for himself but YOU'RE the winner 'cause lucky you, you buy HIM the roses and guess what YOU're the one who proposes! Yes, all those fun things like opening doors and cleaning sewers and fighting the wars." In class I said "if you girls want to be treated like men, go find yourselves someone who wants to be treated like a woman!" It was very loud suddenly, I did not look up to see who was standing and clapping. I just hate that men do what they do naturally and we are supposed to dislike it. We *can* and do compliment each other and the right partner still has plenty in common with you. I have NO qualms about my feminity a man likely does not need therapy for being male... unless he is a danger to himself and others which is a totally different topic.
Judged as a 14 year-old:
Poetic technique: 8/10
Social awareness: 10/10
Very high rating for a lousy poem but it took longer to write than to think it. Thanks.
Ho, ho, ho....Feminism's Gotta GO!
Please.....
That was me as a pubescent female, too. I thought then -- as I think now -- that feminism was one of the big bamboozlements of the modern age. Con-artistry supreme. Had nothing to do with women; had to do with Psychopathic political controllers pushing whatever ideology won them the most power.
The bonus win for them was that feminism Balkanized the normal relationships between men and women. A society divided against itself falls...of course. Beginning to see what they had in mind?
Jim Jones used faux-Christianity as his lure. The Neo-Marxists used feminism (which was false by its nature) as theirs -- before they branched out.
Jones was considered an enlightened, "progressive" preacher early in his career and was feted by numerous politicians, he didn't start out as a crazy outcast. Almost as if progressivism has a grim, inevitable end point to it.
Many "progressives" who fail to awaken will end-up in a deep hole. Perhaps not as severe as a Jonestown, but I think of Communist "progressives" of an earlier era and how they ended-up.
Btw, I believe that Jim Jones was a bona fide Psychopath. They see a death culture as the ultimate form of control.
Which is exactly what modern progressivism idolizes: endless war, abortion on demand, medical euthanasia (MAiD in Canada), anarcho-tyrannical control over legal systems and nihilistic, apocalyptic beliefs regarding climate, depopulation etc. Basically Jim Jones without the shades and sideburns.
Drumroll, please....👍.
You get the award today for having grasped this. YES!
Canada? You are there too, I assume. Death Culture. MAID (largest suicide cluster in the world), abortion on demand, eugenics, apocalyptic doomsday beliefs. Trigger-words from the PM to send his mind-blind followers into their hypnotic spins.
Yup. Precisely. Jim Jones without the shades and sideburns. Psychopathy wears many costumes. As does the wolf in Red Riding Hood.....and Troodo.
...and people keep rolling along as if 'nothing to see here.' I wonder whether we'd be this nuts if we lived longer and were able to reproduce when we were smart-enough to... oh I am so bad today.
Over the years, I have become very suspicious of "isms" Many isms are way off track and harmful to their practitioners / professors and to others who don't profess the same orthodoxy. "Ism" is the stuff of religions and cults. Just go down the list of isms in your head and it becomes obvious. Though, I do relate to stoicism.
Oligarchs weren't making any money from women staying home and raising kids. They also wanted to indoctrinate children so getting women on the payroll and out of kids lives is what Feminism was actually about. Wage slavery was the goal.
There were many motivating factors for feminism. None of them good.
Since when are Democrats suddenly all worried about someone not being "loyal to the Constitution"? Just 3 seconds ago it was a terrible document established by white supremacists, and before that it was a "living, breathing" document that they could mold to their own purposes.
Actually, they are still saying that it needs to go, with its free speech and all, at the same time they are bemoaning the fact that Trump supposedly wants to discard it in favor of fascism.
BINGO! The lack self awareness is astounding.
The only science these people understand is the science of punishment.
And just like every socialist/fascist/communists regime the collective responsibility boils down to the method and process being one in the same
It's a very similar method and process as the "shock-workers" (a devised scheme, ostensibly, for the common good) from the Russian gulags where prisoners who attained "shock" status would get a slightly reduced sentence (the motivation) ...but refused to leave the camp because...wait for it....THE COLLECTIVE.
And that my friends was the purpose of the process and the method being the same.
As far as "mandating joy"...well...what they really want is a collective organism, living, working, eating, sleeping, and suffering together in pitiless and forced symbiosis.
In other words they do not believe in the individual and that is the source of their contempt, blindness, cruelty and worldview.
I recently asked a normie friend what he thought about left and right. He said: "The right are selfish. The left are in it together."
Which sounds familiar to "we're all in it together" and "if it saves just one life".
Never mind that in order to be all in it together or to just save one life, is tantamount to saying we must destroy many lives, in reality, to save one life on paper.
Makes perfect sense!
The trolley problem.
wow! That is a tricky statement
not sure being in a big boiling pot of water is really in it together in a good way.... hmmmmm🤔
The Scientologists are all in it together too
You know, I think it should be "Femdated" or "Shedated" or maybe "Womdated"?
It's funny (to me) how "mandated" hasn't changed its meaning at all since Roman times: it still means command/order.
Womandated.
What? A male president mandated the shots, after getting advice from male alphabet agency leaders! Take the blame — you earned it.
Yeah but it was, for the most part, "girl-bosses" who enforced the nonsense, from Birx all the way down to your next door neighbor.
Who needs a a jailer watchmen when the Karen next door does a far superior job?
Whoops i accidentally pasted this from my clipboard. This is mostly a post as a reply to someone on another stack...however it does tangentially apply here...so I'll leave it.
You will be joyful and will own nothing,
We will MANDATE it.
The reason they cannot imagine anyone doing anything without coercion tells us a lot about how they themselves would like to act and are acting.
Leftism's foundation is projection.
Exactly right!
It is very simple.
To express straightforward--sometimes blunt--sometimes satiric viewpoints without conciliatory preamble is perceived as male.
And that will make a considerable number of women and their little men helpers swarm in fury. Truly deranged hysteria and they will try to crush you with their mass and if you are uncrushable they will exile you. Because what you've done smells too uncompromisingly male.
It was very funny to me when I discovered, starting about 14 years ago, that in online places attracting comparable numbers of women and men, I always found myself sitting at the guys' table because the viewpoints sorted themselves out that way. It just happened.
But don't think conservative men are incapable of behaving in exactly the same way, because some of them do. That is continually proven to me on Substack. There are only a handful of parlors where one can disagree and the host won't get seriously bent out of shape to be challenged.
It takes great self-assurance to be able to handle all comers equally. Rigidity of thinking is not in the least entirely the left's affliction. It's just they're the majority in the public sphere these days.
Very well said!
Experience is a brutal teacher.
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“a person who is their ideas” rather than “a person who has ideas.”
This is the hallmark of people who suffer from narcissistic personality disorder.
They have no Freudian EGO and are ruled by their ID (limbic/reptilian brain) and a pseudo super-ego (which is not a super-ego at all...it is actually the voice in their head that forms all of their self criticism-an angry, absent, non-supportive parent, that foists shame around their necks like an anvil and chains).
Because they have no EGO (they cannot differentiate reality from their internalized image of what they "feel" the outside world is). They then invent (subconsciously) a false ego and become a "person of their ideas" rather than a "person with ideas".
They have to do this because they are not a PERSON as they have no EGO that balances their ID with a super-ego (societal norms/morality/conscience). They are empty shells...petulant beings...who are completely emotionally dis-regulated, and who have a failure in object relations (i.e. they are gods in their own mind, anyone else who does not agree with them are wrong and are to be shamed....they CANNOT accept and deviation from what they imagine the the world to be...they are actually living in a delusion where they are the supreme being).
You cannot begin to wrap your head around why they do what they do, unless you completely understand that they suffer from classic narcissistic personality disorder, along with different degrees of other personality B disorders. Their emotional dis-regulation absolutely PROVES this.
Essentially, they have the emotional age of about a 1.5 to 3 year old.
They were unable to develop a true sense of their own self do to some sort of complex trauma they endured in their formative years.
They cannot imagine a world where another being disagrees with their delusional world view, because they do not interact with the outside world in a normal fashion.
They interact with the interjects of the outside world that they have created in their own mind (which usually is an inaccurate representation of the outside world). Because of this, any variance between their view of the outside world, and a position of someone in the outside world is viewed purely as a THREAT to their existence.
Does this make sense?
People with this personality have a tendency to by highly in favor of authoritarian regimes. They need the outside world to march in lock-step with their own delusion, so that it can give them narcissistic supply, confirming that they are in fact "right" and providing them with higher "status" in society.
I am not making this crap up. It is all in the psychological studies on the topic.
Its the dirty little secret no one wants to talk about, to whit:
These people are batshit crazy. Period. QED.
You can't reason with them. THey are broken.
the problem lies in the fact that the entire essence of the woke ethos is elevating cluster B personality traits to virtues.
it is one of the more damaging cults in human history.
100%. BUT, this is nothing new. It has been written about for thousands of years (the book of genesis e.g. adam, eve and the serpent, cain and abel) the stories are legion.
What IS new is the societal reach of the woke, cluster b mind virus due to the internet, social media, and smart phones. It is not a coincidence that this mind virus began to "take off" in approximately 2012 (when smart phones became ubiquitous among adolescent youth).
see: https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/2k12MH_Findings/2k12MH_Findings/NSDUHmhfr2012.htm#:~:text=In%202012%2C%20there%20were%202.2,4.7%20percent).
The study doesn't mention smart phones, its just declares 2012 to be the year mental health problems saw a dramatic increase among adolescent youth. You don't have to be a rocket scientist for make the connection to pocket social media devices.
IT is bigger than a cult. It is a mind virus or probably more accurately a "mass psychogenic illness".
ps. I have come to the conclusion that the only way to combat this destructive trend is through effective cross-examination i.e. ask them questions to flood their minds with extreme cognitive dissonance. This overwhelms their psyche, and forces them to either 1. go to an emotional extreme and lash out (and make a huge mistake for all to see) or 2. retreat back under the rock from which they crawled.
They have to be managed, marginalized, and ultimately ridiculed for their insanity.
Thank god for X.
This is heavy to say, but we might be witnessing a natural phenomenon, a process by which nature brings a society back into line with nature's objectives. Of course this process would be triggered by a social that ventures outside nature's parameters, failing in its basic natural functions. What's causing this could be the same thing that's causing the drop off in birth rates.
An adolescent brain has no regulation on the GABA / dopamine system, so when they get dopamine hits from their devices (and porn, especially porn) - it re-wires the brain. Not in a human way, either.
I recommend "The Trauma Model" by Colin Ross.
Very astutely stated! I highly recommend the work of Iain McGilchrist to provide further enlightenment.
i will check him out.
Well written description.