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“Something’s happening here…” The ultra-right doesn’t care how they secure political power—vote, don’t vote, or sing homages to the f***in’ fairies—just so long as they achieve power…
When ultra-right conservatives lie, cheat and steal at every level of their social and political lives, they do so because they utterly and completely believe that that’s what everyone else is doing. It’s all they know; it’s all they were taught in their formative youth. more…
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Here’s a couple of interesting articles not generally found in the corporate media. One is an article by Paul Craig Roberts, “The New Tyranny: Does the West have a Future?”. The other is a German article in Spiegel-OnLine on Israel’s Operation Samson nuclear sub program.
Roberts was an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President Ronald Reagan and credited with Reagan’s corporatist “Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981.”
Roberts finds the current crop of fundamentalist conservatives to be, “brownshirts with the same low intelligence and morals as Hitler’s enthusiastic supporters.” more…
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The 1% are comprised of a disproportionate share of sociopaths who will only relent their current pursuit of total profit, privilege and power if (1) they perceive it to be in their self-interest, or (2) they are introduced to Monsieur Guillotine. Justice favors for the latter.
In pursuit of this discussion, allow me to introduce Joseph E. Stiglitz and Dr. Martha Stout.
Stiglitz is the former Chief Economist of the World Bank, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, and a professor at Columbia University.
Dr. Stout, a psychologist, was on the clinical faculty at Harvard University for 25 years, and authored several books, including The Sociopath Next Door (2005). more…
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I guess I’m jaded… I spent enough time in the Old South (1959-65), including a hell-hole rock-quarry, chain-gang, to give me a bitter taste as to who and what they are: rabid racist dogs (at least many of those who own and police the place).
After another eight years in the “new” South (2001-09), it was clear to me that one need not scratch the surface far to find that ol’ redneck clay still there. more…
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When I was six years old in the summer of ’48, I recall listening to the presidential election on the radio while my mother ironed.
Eileen Elizabeth McHugh was a 23-yr-old former World War-II, Rosie-the-Riveter (welder) in the Narragansett Shipyards, Rhode Island. We lived in a winterized near-beach cottage.
The post-war rise in the working and middle classes was still in its infancy, and this was before most people had TVs or telephones. I know we didn’t have one.
I asked her what they were talking about on the radio…Democrats and Republicans? more…
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On it’s current course, conservative hypocrisy may well become America’s most lasting legacy. Ironically, if they did nothing, perhaps that would be their greatest good.
FBI Director and "Partner" 1939...
A mature personality is one that has attained consciousness of the basic rights and integrity of others.
An adult that has become pathologically fixated at an earlier developmental stage, is at best relegated to perception in technical terms—not having the real capacity to consider and judge others empathetically. more…
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Federal prison is far more representative of the general American population than many realize.
Freedom abiding...
The laws, prosecutions, and sentencings are really quite arbitrary. Build ‘em today and they’ll be full tomorrow.
I’d say we all had experiences where something may have gone very wrong.
I can assure you, they’re all represented here in prison. Of course, we-know-who it primarily impacts upon… And yes, Virginia, class politics most definitely exists. more…
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As a doctor of forensic psychology (PsyD), I study a variety of techniques and therapeutic paradigms. I estimate that the professional discipline of psychology is about one-third science and two-thirds art.
Glenn Beck's secret dreams...
The time or two I’ve actually watched Glenn Beck, I’ve always been amazed at how he could be so popular. It reminds me of a reality show—this one from an asylum.
Since I’m not a clinical practitioner, nor is Beck a client of mine, nor do I have any privileged information regarding him, I am not in any violation of professional ethics in these discussions.
Transference and projection is most definitely a well-proven facet of psyche science. It’s practically impossible for an individual to consistently and effectively disguise the reverse imaging of their internalization. The process is like a living lie detector. more…
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I got a chuckle out of the Republican recitation of the Constitution last week in Congress (they even allowed some Dems to participate).
In the never-ceasing hypocrisy of conservative profiteers to double-speak a sepulchered version of history, they performed another act in their quest to propagandize We the People into believing their lies.
Their crude gambit? The “Constitution as a sacred document as it was originally written” (as they oft-refer to the King James Version of the Bible as well) by the near-deified Founding Fathers (most of whom were Deists, not Christians). more…
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As I witness this world, I’ve come to feel like an alien Robinson Crusoe…marooned on this planet and damned if I can figure out how to get back home, or at least some rational alternative.
In any event, as you requested Theophilus, here’s my promised report on earthlings. I realize that this section has been quarantined, so I might be here for awhile longer…
As you know, humans are a relatively recent species, being roughly only some 200,000 years old (a minuscule fraction of our galactic year).
They’re a classic case of psycho-projected catastrophism. more…