Posted on 10/02/2017 4:46:58 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Now, ladies and gentlemen, I have received the thoughts of a professional who asks to remain anonymous, a professional in analyzing the personalities, mind-set and so forth of people like our shooter here in Las Vegas. And I just want to share with you his thoughts. He’s requested anonymity, and I’m happy to offer it and provide it. You might have heard of him. He’s a writer. But he has researched this for his work.
And basically he thinks that an element of this, not the explanation total or complete, but an element of this is that too many people in our society do not take responsibility for how their lives turn out. It’s not just they don’t accept personal responsibility. It is they don’t think they have anything to do with how their lives have turned out, and they become embittered.
He says, “I have studied these cases. Clearly this was premeditated slaughter. If the pattern holds — and we don’t know yet that it will — but if the pattern holds, we will likely find out this guy’s life was coming apart, that he scapegoated society or others for his problems and failures and his hopelessness, and that he decided to get even and go out in a blaze of glory. It’s the same nihilistic evil again and again, blaming others for your problems and seeking to sow destruction in revenge against the unfairness and injustice of it all.”
This sounds like it would apply to the guy that shot the Republicans practicing for baseball, Steve Scalise and others. He was embittered and enraged. He says, “I don’t know if we’ll ever be able to stop people from seeing themselves as victims of society, who then get angrier and angrier and want to strike back. But a healthy society does not encourage an outlook of grievance and helpless victimization, but ours does. People who take personal responsibility for their lives do not these kinds of things.”
These are the thoughts from my expert and I think there’s a lot of truth there. We know that we live in a grievance society where grievance has become its own form of politics. It’s spreading. Grievance is taught on many college campuses. Grievance is always treated as justified. Well, I take that back. If you are a white male or white Christian, your grievance probably will not carry the weight of others. But for the most part, those who have grievance and incorporate politics into their grievance generally are always said to be justified.
In fact, I might say that one of our political parties has actually, as a matter of strategy, tried to create as many victims of whatever as they can, and this party has then presented itself as the solution, the answer. And of course the problem with victimology, the problem with victimhood is once you adopt it, once you accept that you’re a victim, a lot of things happen.
You are immediately, in your mind, you are free of blame. You are free of responsibility. And you also are free in believing you don’t have a chance at succeeding or achievement or accomplishment because the deck’s stacked against you. ‘Cause you’re a victim. It’s-a-made-to-order political profile for a political party which seeks to gain power on the backs of such people. “It’s not your fault. We’ll fix those who did this to you. We’ll get even with those who did this to you.”
So you adopt that you’re a victim of something. You are a generational victim of slavery. You’re a generational victim of masculinity. You are a victim of male patriarchy. You are a victim of extreme right-wing politics. Whatever. Once you adopt it, once you accept it, once you yourself admit and acknowledge that you’re a victim, you are immediately saying you have no responsibility for yourself, and you have no ability to triumph, because no matter how hard you try and how hard you work, the deck is always going to be stacked against you.
It’s a very artful and, for the Democrat Party, it’s a very successful political strategy to create as many victims as you can and then group them and then acknowledge their grievance and then promise to get even. Here’s what happens, though. They somehow never get the satisfaction of whoever it is that did whatever was done to them, there never is any revenge. The party claims they’re gonna get even, but it never happens. The people you end up blaming continue to live and continue to live prosperously or happily or whatever ways in which you don’t live, and so your anger festers and your resentment festers.
And all of that is used as a political advantage by the party which encouraged you to accept the fact that you’re helpless and not responsible because powerful forces have been arrayed against you. It’s a recipe for unhappiness. It’s a recipe for what is said here. Scapegoat society for others, for your failures, your hopelessness, and it builds and builds and builds and builds and builds to the point you gotta get even, and you take mental instability and throw it in the mix. “Well, then, Rush, why doesn’t everybody grab a gun and start –” The point here, not everybody is unstable.
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RUSH: Well, well, well, well, well. The Daily Caller with an interesting dispatch here. The shooter’s name is Stephen Paddock, P-a-d-d-o-c-k. His brother is Eric Paddock, lives in Florida, says this is horrible for them, had no idea, please don’t blame my mom. But the shooter’s brother said that their father was Patrick Benjamin Paddock, a bank robber who was on the FBI most wanted list.
I’ve got a copy here of the actual most wanted list profile of Patrick Benjamin Paddock, and it says at the bottom of it that he was psychopathic. The brother says that Stephen Paddock wasn’t religious, wasn’t political, he wasn’t anything. We don’t understand this.
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Unlike the Scalise shooter, this guy was wealthy, had a nice girlfriend, and was enjoying himself. I just can’t see it...
Some are saying the girlfriend just dumped him.
I don't even own one. That makes me really mad.
Bugliosi claims that Oswald finally decided to go ahead with killing Kennedy after his wife Marina three times refused to take him back.
I would say the anonymous source is on target...easy enough to see but did we ever stop to look at it that way? I never did or at least not consciously. Probably like the nose on our face - very, very clear the mentality of these scumbags. Don’t blame me - it’s someone’s else’s fault. Besides society telling them that nothing is their fault, they have never grown out of the 4 year old stage of blaming all their troubles on a sibling...Glad the puke is dead so we don’t have to listen to his excuses/reasons OR HIS ATTORNEY!!!
With money like that, a new girlfriend would be no problem.
Unless Mrs. Danley had exercised some extraordinary psychological pressure on the old guy.
It’s not your fault. The cards were stacked against you, and there was nothing you could do about it.
Is she still alive? The allegations that he was his GRU/KGB handler have always made a lot of sense to some people.
My math teacher told me that with three points you have a plane.
Lying bast**d!
I thought they located her in her country of origin ... Indonesia I believe.
Marina Oswald, I meant.
“was enjoying himself”?
Anybody ever hear anyone mention the “13” that was tattooed on his throat and was cropped out of this photo?
The Sally Kohn parody account (NB: despite many searches, I have not yet found the “real” Sally Kohn account) uncharacteristically counsels patience:
“Look we don’t know yet what motivated the shooter in Vegas.
If it *was* political views/ideology, then it is terrorism. By definition. But we should wait for facts. As we should with *any* shooter regardless of race or religion.”
https://twitter.com/sallykohn/status/914851516233781249
Wondering if she smells a “Rat”.
Bugliosi claimed that Lee and Marina had a love/hate relationship. She desperately wanted to remain in the US and not go back to the USSR, but Oswald would never do the necessary things to guarantee her citizenship.
She was working in an army surplus store the last time Bugliosi was able to talk with her.
Apparently the three points were not co-linear.
If they were, you would have had an infinite number of planes.
No way a single gunman shoots over 500 people. You can't even do this playing Halo.
If I ever get to flying lessons and whatnot, owning a plane evrn with all the expenses would be really cool to me.
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