Month: October 2016

Here is the thing: I think most reflective people will wonder what would enable and cause a woman to stay with a man who cheated on her as often as Bill did and presumably still does, to the extent he can still get it up.  It must fill her with rage and jealousy and indignation at times.  She must be particularly pissed that now his crimes might in part cost her her cherished Presidency.

Only someone who is conniving and devious and used to be angry all the time could do it, and only in the service of a greater ambition.  And she seems to have hated these women that Bill used, but she herself was being used.  She was his prop wife, who allowed him to present a normal face to the world.  She allowed herself to be used ONLY because she too wanted to become the President.  But it must have often been humiliating.  And women who have been repeatedly humiliated become NASTY.

I think of the Empress Theodora, who began her life as an actress and prostitute.  Later she married the Emperor, and it was her common custom to have her political enemies arrested and tortured.  She like watching it.  I think there is more than a touch of latent cruelty in Hillary. It was implied at the very beginning by how she attacked–how she Gaslighted–Kathy Shelton.  She has not changed.

From the previous link:

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/22/unreleased-impeachment-era-evidence-against-bill-clinton-still-sealed-by-congress/#ixzz4NvELxGHY

http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/22/unreleased-impeachment-era-evidence-against-bill-clinton-still-sealed-by-congress/

This is an example of whistle blowing.  Why am I just reading about this now?  It is like all the shit the Clinton’s so skillfully, so deviously, so skillfully hid for so many years is just coming out now, now that we hare a strong leader who is capable of standing up to the corrupt media and corrupt government and telling needed truths.  You get that, all sorts of stuff starts popping up.

You see, the very worst thing that can happen to a whistle blower is that they take a huge risk, and nobody listens.  What if nobody had listened to Edgar Snowden?  How can we know what other stories could have been told but died still born?  And they still get punished, in all likelihood.  Obama’s government, certainly, despite certain campaign lies to the contrary, has clearly work HARD to be the least transparent, least accountable government in at least modern American history, and Hillary’s will be much, much worse.

Our democracy is broken.  Consider this exchange, with a REPUBLICAN:

“’I don’t care what happens. You are never going to get 67 votes,” Schippers recounted the senator saying. “Henry Hyde responded, ‘Well you know you go over there and Dave has information that the president committed a brutal rape.’” 

The same senator, according to Schippers, replied, “I don’t care if you could prove he raped a woman and stood up and shot her dead. You are not going to get 67 votes.” 

Schippers explained, “Well I raise my hand which I was prone to do at various times and said, ‘Senator may I ask a question?’ And he said, ‘Yeah, what?’” 

“I said, ‘Yesterday I saw 100 senators raise their right hand to God and swear to do equal and impartial justice. Are they going to ignore their vow too?’ And he said, ‘You’re right they are.’ And then I said, ‘Well the system doesn’t work.’ And that was that. It was Senator Stevens from Alaska. He’s dead now. God rest his soul.”

That was 20 years ago.  Trump is the inevitable result of this sort of pervasive corruption of ideal, principle, and rule of law.  That Senator cared about one thing, and one thing only: getting reelected.  I have never taken a firm stand on this issue, but I really do think term limits would make it so career politicians have less time to become corrupt, and will in fairly short order have a last term in office where, if they have not been broken, they can vote and speak honestly.

In the same sense that cops get jaded and less attuned to the notion of public service the longer they serve, or tend to, politicians are the same.  Their first term they may come in with high ideals, but endless favors, and quid pro quos, and the need to manage scandals, and the thirst to stay in power all work their way insidiously into their heads.

As I argued a few posts ago, getting “triggered” is actually not the fault of the environment, per se–certainly it is not best viewed as such–but rather a symptom of a type of psychological dysfunction called a reduced “Window of Tolerance”. It is a symptom of identifiable and treatable mental illness.  It is treated through–to use Dan Siegel’s word which I am mildly ambivalent about–Mindsight.

It is treated, to use a phrase I like a bit better, through emotional maturation and the development of greater emotional intelligence.  This is done through introspection, and a mindfulness practice based on sensations, thoughts, feelings and images (SIFT).

But practically, such practice requires emotional openness, and our university campuses particularly are breeding grounds for infantile entitlement, and self righteous anger; and it seems to me that being “triggered” and being a victim of any sort actually creates the illusion of emotional depth.  If someone has suffered then they must be deep, and the people who are “helping” them (creating a codependent sick relationship with them) get to feel like helpers, like compassionate people.  A soft feeling situation is created where everyone gets their need for self importance met, but massive on-going mental health problems are both created and expressed in this dysfunctional dynamic.

I”m all for competent mental health professionals (I will note again what an odd phrase that is, like they are a different species of human) doing their jobs competently.  But I am not for dumbing down emotional intelligence.

In important respects creating “safe spaces” is dumbing down the curriculum–as most curriculums have been dumbed down for many decades now–and simply creating emotionally stupid people in addition to ignorant and incurious ones.

What better mass of people to create the DEMAND for tyranny?  This is the plan.  People who are capable of using freedom want it.  People who are not, who need to be protected from every last vagary of life, and who are incapable of learning and growing, demand complete stasis, and stasis is something totalitarians deliver well.  They will tell them what to think, what to feel, they will feed them, clothe them, and rock them to sleep at night, across the duration of their pathetic lives.

They will put them in jail cells, and be thanked for it.  Those iron bars keep out the world.  Prison is their safe space.  No wandering for them.  They will even be provided pacifiers if they want them.

We are in a desperate fight for sanity, and I wanted to remind any readers I may have that www.prageru.com is a great resource. They have short well crafted videos on just about every topic you can think of.

It is literally the case that before dialogue can even start you have to convince most glazed-eye drones that you are not evil.

It seems obvious, given the climate this year, that many Trump supporters will only admit it to the voting booth.

I am having odd dreams. I am seeing the seething hate of the Left come to the surface as the Headless Ones slowly realize they may lose, but I also see hundreds or perhaps thousands of potential whistleblowers contemplating finally going public. They have been scared and frightened. Obsma has cowed them into submission with threats of legal action, but they KNOW if Hillary gets elected she won’t hesitate to use physical violence, and all her crimes will go unreported and unpunished.

I say: it’s now or never. Do it now and do it en masse. Put the nails in Hillarys coffin or it’s the nails in our democracy. And if you are suspected of dissidence, which will begin to include questioning anything, then you will be purged and punished anyway. Come public. Show the courage Assange and O’Keefe and others have.

These leftist ghouls are the Walking Dead. They are the embodiment of what morally and psychologically normal people fear. They are the enemies of that Goodness Hillary corrupts by claiming. For her a good people is a compliant people, a submissive people.

We can’t let her win this election.

Edit: logistically, what are needed are personal narratives, and supporting documentation such as emails. Breitbart and InfoWars are likely to be most receptive. WikiLeaks may still be accessible too. Every little bit helps.

Do we vote for the Kardashians or sanity?

Since you will likely immediately note Trump was, in addition to his business accomplishment, a reality TV star. But I will note that The Apprentice was all about getting things done, correctly, on budget, and on schedule. Why would anyone not want someone with a long term history of such success running our country? There is no ethical equivalence: the Clintons are clearly much much worse in all respects.

The Apprentice was about competence. That was the WHOLE focus.

The Kardashians were a media creation, just like the image of Hillary as s highly qualified professional who just made s mistake here or there. And maybe, you know, got a lot of people killed and started a regional terror movement. Can you really say that’s never happened to you?

The essence of conservatism is preservation. Sometimes, as I pointed out long ago, viewing new ideas and behaviors with suspicion can lead to a failure to adapt, to ignore good or better ideas.

But now anyone who has not embraced All Change, All The Time is a conservative. If you don’t support boys using the girls room  INSTANTANEOUSLY you are labeled a reactionary. Again this is political and cultural Gaslighting.

We are not evolving as a society: we are being PUSHED. There is nothing gradual and organic about it, and as I have said, it is inherently an emotionally shallow process necessitating and rewarding shallow people.

I really feel like we have come to the culmination of a 40 or so year plan, hatched in the immediate aftermath of the Vietnam War.  It involves the CIA.  I will remind you that John Brennan, the current head of the CIA, voted for the Communist in 1976, which means an agency largely formed to COMBAT Communism is being led by someone who admits he was one at one time.

It involves multinational banks, which is why some of the most damaging speeches Hillary gave were to bankers.

And it involves the Clintons.  And it obviously involves the people who own and run most of our media conglomerates.

Who else, I cannot say.  They either get what they want November 8, or the whole plan goes to shit.  Either way, we will have decided as a people who we want to be, and if we choose tyranny, we will get it, and many of us will deserve it.  Certainly, the spiritual gestalt of America will have chosen something.  No one, now, can truly plead ignorance.  Not now.  There is only willful ignorance, and willful misunderstanding.  And people who are “stupiding”–the conscious act of being stupid–will have done so of their own free will, and will be responsible for the outcome.  They cannot say they didn’t know.  They knew.

This phrase is a thing, especially in what I’m going to call neuropsychology, which gets into a fairly granular level as far as what parts of the brain are activated in various psychological conditions.  You’ll hear a lot about things like the medial prefrontal cortex, the anterior Cingulate, the limbic system, the brain stem, etc.

Practically, though, it uses a poorer version of Kum Nye–which seems smarter to me the more I learn, especially since it’s been around since the mid-1970’s– to help people get in touch with their bodies, and learn to sense and regulate their arousal.

The ideas is that you have a relatively wide window of arousal which does not activate your fight or flight or freeze.  The problem with many traumatized people particularly, is that they are easily overwhelmed.  Any number of stimuli can send them into hyperarousal, which is an activation of the fight, flight, freeze.  They will also get numb, and not react at all, which is hypoarousal.  Without looking too long, here are some slides from Pat Ogden (who apparently has a great book I haven’t read yet): http://www.healingresources.info/pdf/article_ogden1ppt.pdf

You can see some slides on the Window of Tolerance about 6 down.

People with very small windows are prone to bouts of fear and rage and emotional numbness.  Normal coping skills are greatly reduced or absent, depending on the level of trauma.  Healing of course consists in gradually learning to tolerate more and more feelings, which I have compared to thawing.

Ideal behavior is flexible, adaptable, coherent, energized, and stable. (This idea and the FACES acronym I pulled from Dan Siegel.)

Here is the thing: no one who interacts regularly with hard core Leftists–which in the current climate is pretty much anyone who is planning to vote for Hillary–can have failed to notice the INSTANTANEOUS hyperarousal which springs up when you contradict them in any way.  They become infuriated. They insult and belittle you.

This is not emotional health.

In his book, Dan Siegel talked about a married couple who fought all the time.  He helped them understand that both of them were going reactive on each other all the time, which is to say they would very quickly go into fight or flight, which is a primitive part of our nervous system suited for survival in conditions of physical danger, but the last thing you want when you want nuance, empathy and understanding.

He taught them first to NOTICE when they were going reactive, then to ask the other person to stop talking for a moment so they could calm themselves down with conscious breathing and a body scan, so that they could remain emotionally present.

Who does this in the political world?  The Left uses methods of personal assault, and most conservatives have been attacked so many times that they have no interest in listening.  In my own experience it is pointless anyway.  Even when I have done my very, very best to be emotionally open, to trust that we could reach some sort of understanding, I have failed completely.  The very best cases are where they conclude I am just stupid, but they are not angry.  Their ideas are not amenable to questioning.  Me, self evidently, I have developed my ideas to an extraordinary extent, and spent far too much time exposing them to critical scrutiny.

But I was thinking today: even if Trump wins, we still have millions of people who will need deprogramming.  They literally act like members of a cult.  Then I got to thinking: well, what are the psychosocial characteristics of a cult.  Here they are:

1. Submission:
   1. Complete, almost unquestioned trust in the leadership. 
   2. Leaders are often seen as prophets, apostles, or special individuals with unusual connections to God. This helps a person give themselves over psychologically to trusting someone else for their spiritual welfare.
   3. Increased submission to the leadership is rewarded with additional responsibilities and/or roles, and/or praises, increasing the importance of the person within the group.
2. Exclusivity
   1. Their group is the only true religious system, or one of the few true remnants of God’s people.
3. Persecution complex
   1. Us against them mentality. Therefore, when someone (inside or outside of the group) corrects the group in doctrine and/or behavior, it is interpreted as persecution, which then is interpreted as validation.  
4. Control
   1. Control of members’ actions and thinking through repeated indoctrination and/or threats of loss of salvation, or a place to live, or receiving curses from God, etc.
5. Isolation
   1. Minimizing contact of church members with those outside the group. This facilitates a further control over the thinking and practices of the members by the leadership.
6. Love Bombing
   1. Showing great attention and love to a person in the group by others in the group, to help transfer emotional dependence to the group.
7. Special Knowledge
   1. Instructions and/or knowledge are sometimes said to be received by a leader(s) from God. This leader then informs the members.
   2. The Special Knowledge can be received through visions, dreams, or new interpretations of sacred scriptures such as the Bible.
8. Indoctrination
   1. The teachings of the group are repeatedly drilled into the members, but the indoctrination usually occurs around Special Knowledge.
9. Salvation
   1. Salvation from the judgment of God is maintained through association and/or submission with the group, its authority, and/or its Special Knowledge.
10. Group Think
    1. The group’s coherence is maintained by the observance to policies handed down from those in authority.
    2. There is an internal enforcement of policies by members who reward “proper” behavior, and those who perform properly are rewarded with further inclusion and acceptance by the group.
11. Cognitive Dissonance
    1. Avoidance of critical thinking and/or maintaining logically impossible beliefs and/or beliefs that are inconsistent with other beliefs held by the group.
    2. Avoidance of and/or denial of any facts that might contradict the group’s belief system.
12. Shunning
    1. Those who do not keep in step with group policies are shunned and/or expelled.
13. Gender Roles
    1. Control of gender roles and definitions.
    2. Severe control of gender roles sometimes leads to sexual exploitation.
14. Appearance Standards
1. Often a common appearance is required and maintained. For instance, women might wear prairie dresses, and/or their hair in buns, and/or no makeup, and/or the men might all wear white short-sleeved shirts, and/or without beards, or all wear beards.

I would like to frame why Bill belongs in the election in the simplest way possible: Bill and Hillary are morally equal.  They have been a political partnership–and really, an illicit business partnership–for over 30 years.  You cannot separate one from the other, ethically or practically.