Author: White Whale

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.

Do we clean up corruption in Washington, or do we increase it exponentially in a way our Republic may never recover from?

And we need to be crystal clear: the Republicans are corrupt, the elites are.  They are slightly less corrupt than the Democrats, but as dirty and criminal as they clearly are, that is not saying much at all. Fuck those people.  They think they will get in office in 2020?  Even if Hillary doesn’t push through all her plans for amnesty, open borders, eradication of controls on voter ID, and the like, I WILL NOT SUPPORT THOSE ASSHOLES IN ANY WAY.  PERIOD.  NON-NEGOTIABLE.  And half the party thinks the same way.  I haven’t given a cent this year.  Trump has the money.  If he’s serious he will shell out the cash, and I’ve stopped giving a fuck about Congress.  We got them what they needed, and they betrayed us.  If we lose a little ground every year, year after year, as has been happening really since the New Deal, we are going to lose everything sooner or later.  May as well be sooner, if it’s going to come.  I’m not going to set myself on fire for faithless losers.

Some years you may need to hold your nose to vote–as I did for McCain and Romney–but you support, period, the most conservative candidate, and the contrast between Trump and Hillary could not be more blatant.
 
No one who values loyalty forgets betrayal.

Anyone with an IQ above room temperature ought to get that.

It is interesting that the talk where Hillary talked about eliminating borders was given to BANKERS.  There was a time when attacking bankers would have had populist appeal, but the Left, which at one time claimed to represent the people, no longer bothers to even attempt policy coherence. Their propaganda is so strong that they simply tell people what to think and they DO.

But fractional reserve banking and central banking are poisons which weaken ordinary working people, and siphon off wealth, which act to STEAL, without anyone understanding it.  I am the only one I know of saying some of the things I’m saying, such as that we ought to reverse it.

But if we have a hemisphere without nations and without borders, what do we also have?  A government which controls half the globe, at least.  It is expensive and time consuming buying governments.  Why not just put all of them in one place, then buy that?  It’s a logical strategy for greedy amoral psychopaths.

One government to rule them all.
One government to find them.
One government to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

You know, this is a bit OCD since I know I don’t really matter.  I know, too, of the tests where people try to determine how much control they have, and most people considerably overestimate it.  I would be in the very top tip of the curve on that.  Still, those people are the least depressed.

Still, for my magical socks:

I think nuclear war with Russia should definitely be put on the table.  Top Russian officials have talked about it, we seem to have just sent an advance contingent of Marines to Norway to dust off some old staging areas, and Moscow is actively conducting drills. It may be sabre rattling, but what if it isn’t?

And the bigger point is WHY ARE WE IN CONFLICT WITH RUSSIA IN THE FIRST PLACE?   WHY?  We have no interests in Syria.  SAUDI ARABIA and QATAR have interests in Syria, and they are the ones both funding ISIS, and sending huge sums to the Clintons.  Bill got a $1 million check from Qatar for his birthday.  ONE MILLION DOLLARS.  You don’t think that is enough to influence policy among amoral people?  Fuck yes it is.

It seems to me Trump needs to frame the contrast on issues

“You really do have a choice this election. Do you stand for the rule of law or don’t you? Do you want to avoid pointless wars, or do you want to put our men and women in harms way because that is what the Saudis want? Do you want people coming to this country to start new and better lives, or coming here to abuse our hospitality and attack us? Do you a new beginning for all those who lost their jobs to NAFTA and harmful economic policies, or do you want MORE of what shuttered Detroit. You’ll get it with Hillary.

Look I am no saint but I love this country, and even if I had done EVERYTHING they tried to pin on me, my list of offenses would not be a small FRACTION of what Bill and Hillary have done. Not even close.

You and your children will feel the effects of your choice in November. This really is a vote for our future. Do we make it better or, (look at Hillary) WORSE? The choice is yours.

i checked my local grocer and they have the latest but I don’t see any big spread on Bill and Hillary. That in itself may be a story. They may have been able to get one of people–you know that whore John Comey is their people–to threaten criminal charges.