Posted on 10/11/2010 2:35:42 AM PDT by Scanian
History tells us that organizations, movements, even entire nations can go mad in much the same way an individual does, with the same expression of irrationality, frenzy, and violence. Recent evidence suggests that the American left is going through precisely such a breakdown.
In his memoir Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Carl Jung, the psychiatric pioneer who was smarter than Freud, discussed a particular case history in which a patient told of a troubling dream: he was repeatedly confronted with the image of a howling feces-covered baby. Jung had no immediate explanation, and thought about little else for several days. At last the solution appeared: his patient harbored a buried psychosis, one that was in danger of emerging. To his horror, Jung realized that it must be the therapy itself that was threatening his patient's sanity. Jung was presented with the dilemma of how to cut short the analysis without allowing the patient to guess the actual reason, which might well send him into a tailspin from which he would never recover. (Freud would have kept pushing until the guy was institutionalized.)
Fortunately, on his next visit, the patient asked to curtail the treatment, giving only vague reasons. A relieved Jung concurred. The patient never returned, but Jung checked on him regularly and assured himself that the man remained whole and rational, the seed of insanity remaining safely buried for the balance of his life.
What better metaphor for the current condition of the left? Leftism suffers from an equivalent psychosis -- one that is now beginning to break out. This is not by chance but due to the ongoing collapse of the left's epic dream. Leftists have always believed that one clear shot, one opportunity to put their policies into play without opposition from "reactionary interests,"
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
...And how long would such a Leftist rabble stand in open battle with the well organized, trained, led and equipped U.S. military formations full of battle hardened veteran troops?
My bet goes to the VETS!
Interesting read.
Islam has its madrasses. The Marxists have our government K-12 schools and universities.
As conservatives we must work to shut down government schooling. We must work to get out nation's children into **PRIVATE** educational settings that thoroughly integrate the child's specific Judeo Christian beliefs and our nation's founding principles into every minute of the child's educational experience.
With today's technology it is possible, in fact we MUST, give up the idea of large factory-like schools that treat kids like Perdue chicken plant product. They are a socialist abomination!
With today's technology it is possible to give our nation's children the **PRIVATE** educational experience that our Founding Fathers enjoyed.
If and when the Republicans ever get control voting fraud should be one of their very top concerns.
Lather, rinse, repeat until the Conservative gives up in disgust.
Such behavior is an indication that liberals know deep down that their philosophy is terminally corrupt and its ideals are, in the end, unattainable.
It's no wonder that they're all going mad.
I remember Waco. And, the day after Elian Gonzoles was kidnapped from his home, the INS SWAT team and support workers had a celebratory picnic.
There’s no need to put the word radical before islam, just read the koran & you’ll see what I mean. Do not bow down to them out of fear for that is what they want.
The GPU was responsible for planning and carrying out most of Stalin’s assassinations, including that of Leon Trotsky.
Can I see, too? What's the URL?
Lol...and I just posted it on Facebook. It should tick off all of my lib friends and family members... smile.
I do too!
I said “most” law enforcement and military units would not obey presidential orders directing them to murder their fellow citizens.
Of course, there some that would like the boot licking FBI and ATF SWAT teams that showed up at WACO; however, in a civil war setting that would involve massive military formations, the mainstream of troops simply would not open fire on their fellow countrymen and would be more likely to be neutral or shoot Obama lackey officers who gave them illegal orders.
BTW, all military members are trained to disobey illegal orders. Most certainly orders to murder U.S. citizens acting under the constitution would be illegal orders.
A Pyrrhic victory: In 281 B.C., King Pyrrhus of Epirus (c. 318 - 272) landed on the southern Italian shore with 20 elephants and 25,000-30,000 men to defend his fellow Greek speakers (in Tarentum of Magna Graecia) against Roman domination. While Pyrrhus won the first two battles, he lost a large number of his men (and ultimately, the war).
The term Pyrrhic Victory comes from these devastating battles.
You are close. It was Pyrrhus, King of Epirus who is said to have made a statement along these lines.
From About.com: In 281 B.C., King Pyrrhus of Epirus (c. 318 - 272) landed on the southern Italian shore with 20 elephants and 25,000-30,000 men to defend his fellow Greek speakers (in Tarentum of Magna Graecia) against Roman domination. While Pyrrhus won the first two battles, he lost a large number of his men (and ultimately, the war).
The term Pyrrhic Victory comes from these devastating battles.
Prayer for the integrity of the elections is in order.
God can thwart any plans that the left has to conduct voting fraud - voting tour buses break down, weather is prohibitive, illnesses occur, etc.
Who will be POTUS on 11/3? Believe me, he doesn’t give a rip about Congress or mid-term elections.
And there they are, to this day - especially in the State Department.
The body count that I last read was 177 million. This doesn’t include all the abortions that have occurred since it has became illegal in the USA and many other countries over the last 50 or so years.
America alone has taken about 50 million people under abortion.
The internal holocaust always precedes the external/public holocaust that will consume us. This is what the Left has planned for us and the rest of the world because we are choosing not to go along with their ideas.
Most recently, we have had the incident marking the full emergence of left-wing psychosis in all its mad glory: the “No Pressure” film released by the 10:10 group. Few AT readers can have missed discussion of this little gem, which features a series of vignettes in which anyone opposed to the “global warming” hoax is annihilated by a magic button that blows them to pieces on the spot. (Some may protest that the film is English — the author, Richard Curtis, is noted for his genteel British comedies. But in truth it’s international — Gillian Anderson is American, and if you were to further trace artistic and financial involvement, you’d find plenty more Yanks in the mix.)
This is as clear a depiction of left-wing psychosis as we are ever going to see. The yearning — of an intensity beyond the grasp of sane, normal individuals— to possess some means of total power, some instrument of near-divine retribution and punishment. Not for personal aggrandizement or sadistic pleasure, no, not at all... but simply to remove those stones in the path of progress: the Neanderthals, the troglodytes, the reactionaries, who are standing between the people and their righteous destiny. We’ll use it just a few times, only against the really bad ones, and only to make an impression. And once we do that, we’ll put it aside, and never, ever touch it again, we promise....
This is infantilism, pure and simple, as all psychoses are, including the one diagnosed by Jung. A compulsive belief that the world needs to bow to the demands of the eternal child immediately and without protest. And when it doesn’t — and we can be sure it won’t — that it be punished to the limits of the imagination and beyond. This is the impulse behind leftism, stacked to the roof as it is with people who never grew out of deepest childhood, who have grown twisted and embittered in the conviction that world has let them down and must pay for it.
It is also the impulse of the tyrant from time immemorial, from the Neros and Ashurbanipals to the Stalins and Maos of our own epoch. In “Pressure” we see it expressed more clearly than ever before, by extremely talented and sophisticated people, in the expectation that it will encourage others. (Another point that struck me was the way the film mixes bloodshed with whimsy. Whimsicality — what unfunny people have instead of a sense of humor — has always been a mark of the left. Now it has been publicly intertwined with the impulse to kill. How sick is that?)
THE LEFT HAS CROSSED A new line, at least im my lifetime:
I also would point out this statement as very important (history revisionism).
Kent State, once etched in national consciousness, is now beginning its slow fade into history. It was the apotheosis of the Anti-Vietnam war movement. When in May 1970 U.S. troops entered Cambodia seeking to destroy communist bases and supply dumps being used against South Vietnam, the left went wild across the entire country. At Kent State they raged down the streets smashing windows, burning cars, and menacing passersby. There were rumors that certain unknown figures had brought in weapons, rumors that turned out to be all too true.
On May 4, someone took 4 shots at the Ohio National Guard troops protecting the campus. (This information, well understood by the investigating committee, was kept secret for forty years, being released only this year. The identity of those who suppressed it remains unknown. Obviously, such facts would have seriously embarrassed the left. Readers may draw their own conclusions.) The troops returned fire, killing four rioters on the spot. The rest broke and fled, and peace returned to the Kent State campus.
Excellent!
They will orchestrate the violence to force the govt. to take action to stop it. When the govt. takes action to stop the violence, the left claims the govt. is becoming a dictatorship and suppressing everyones rights.
When the left is in power, they will orchestrate violence, then use the violence as an excuse to suppress peoples rights.
We've seen it time and time again. Look how the left has played the violence for the last 4 presidents.
Bush 41- LA race riot's blacks were second class citizens, Bush was becoming a dictator
Clinton-OKC bombing- white supremacist, white separatist, KKK, neo-Nazies were attempting to overthrow the govt., we need to end hate radio
Bush 43-9/11-first Bush steals the election then he allowed 9/11 he's becoming a dictator
Zippo-car bomb attempt in NYC-right wing extremist are attempting to overthrow the govt., we need to end the hate speech
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