The Swamp's paranoid tendencies

American Thinker ^ | 8 Mar, 2021 | Larry Cesare

[MtnClimber]

Our federal government is now suffering from what one might call Mass Paranoid Disorder of Psychotic Proportions.

After 35 years, I retired my license to diagnose and treat individuals and families for behavioral health issues. But as a retired clinical psychologist tracking news and social media, I believe that, since the 2020 election, our federal government is now officially insane. It suffers from what one might call Mass Paranoid Disorder of Psychotic Proportions. This is not an official psychiatric disorder, but if it were, primary symptoms would be similar to those of individual paranoid disorders, but on a massive collective group level, and include:

a) pervasive suspiciousness and distrust of others' motives,

b) delusions of grandiosity and, because of their "specialness," delusions of persecution,

c) misinterpretation of innocuous behavior as major insults or attacks,

d) rigid inability to forgive with a tendency to hold grudges,

e) heightened vigilance and scanning for real or imagined threats, and

f) use of projection as the primary defense mechanism (e.g., "We're not the angry, dangerous ones with hate and hostile intent; that's all of you who are out to get us.”).

What else can explain:

a) the recent establishment of security fences, razor wire and tens of thousands of troops surrounding our Capitol,

b) the obsession with boogeymen like alleged white supremacists, so-called right wing “domestic terrorists,” the shadowy “QAnon” entity, everyday Trump supporters and even Trump himself,

c) the need to keep middle class Americans locked down, isolated, separated and silenced to “cancel” and neutralize the threat they imagine that we represent, or

d) the astounding level of arrogance and unjustified moral superiority evident in the message that the government knows better and is therefore, in true communist form, entitled to override our constitutional rights?

[a fool in paradise]

They have suffered grand delusion for over half a century.

They still reject the maps that show overwhelming coast to coast support for conservativism. Instead they insist that liberal coasts media IS the only message that should be heard.

Stalinists lie. Always

[Migraine]

They are of their father, the devil, father of lies.

By their fruits you shall know them; and they’ve got a lot of fruits.

[Vaduz]

D.C. has more shrinks than any city in the country any questions.

[VietVetwcm]

My own take, as a former Social Psychologist and Councilor, is that many of them are ‘true believers’, that they think/feel/believe that what THEY think/feel/believe is self evidently ‘True’, and therefore can be treated as proven fact.

Unfortunately, the universe, reality, and others do not always agree with them. Ergo, the Universe, reality and others MUST be wrong.

However, if what they believe is self-evidently ‘True’, then URO, especially those pesky Others, must have some ulterior motives for disagreeing with them. This is where the paranoria starts. And once it starts, it feeds on itself.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Beat me to it. I don’t know how the author distinguishes paranoia from communism, but if this helps him to see what is going on and resist it, great.