CHECK YOURSELF! ARE YOU INFECTED?
Mass Hysteria (collective cytogenetic illness, or collective obsessional behavior) is a public health phenomenon which transmits collective illusions of threats, whether real or imaginary, through a society as a result of rumors and fear.
One has only to read the mass media, or view television cable news to realize that the nation is suffering through a plague of mass hysteria never before experienced in a modern western nation. Trump dementia, Trump delusional syndrome, or as the late Charles Krauthammer (columnist and trained psychiatrist) coined it “Trump derangement syndrome”. Fareed Zakaria used the term on his program to described it as “hatred of Donald Trump so severe it impairs people’s judgement.” Perhaps he might have added more precisely hatred or fear of Donald Trump so severe it impairs their judgement and sense of reality.
This modern case of mass hysteria is informed by infamous cases of the distant past in more isolated and religiously dominated societies which all resulted in death and violence.
Examples of mass hysteria of the past included the 1688 “Irish Fright”. In 1688 an English palace coup (the later termed the “Glorious Revolution:”) deposed the Catholic monarch James II of England , and installed on the throne Protestants, William and Mary of Orange. The resulting fear and hatred of James’s supporters led to false rumors claiming the invasion of England by an army of Irish Catholic mercenaries began to circulate though Isolated countryside villages in England and Wales which were dominated by strict Protestants. Fear of invasion caused widespread panic fed by polemics of priesthood who may have used the rumors to expand their power and control over their flocks. The result were communities so controlled by fear that they lost all sense of reality. Protestant citizens armed themselves, boarded up buildings and homes, set up road barriers and attacked and brutally killed presumed Catholic spies and invaders . The reports were completely false. There was no Irish army, no invasion, no threat.
In the religiously strict and isolated Puritan English colony of Salem in Massachusetts in the early 1690s several young local women were taken by violent fits. The local minister investigated each case and claimed these were not the result of epilepsy or disease. He concluded that witchcraft by certain non-conformist irreligious elements of the community were the cause. Again as more young women exhibited the same violent fits mass hysteria generated by intense fear gripped the community and resulted the Salem Witch Trials. The elders abandoning reason, logically and due process indicted two hundred people claimed to be witches or warlocks. They convicted 19 all of whom werel duly convicted with no actual evidence of wrongdoing and executed by hanging and crushing to death,
IN MODERN USA MUCH OF ACADEMIA, THE MEDIA, THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY, THE PROGRESSIVE POLYGLOT CITIZENRY OF COASTAL MEGOPOLI, THE POLITICAL LEFT AND GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHMENT FIGURES ALL APPEAR TO BE INFECTED WITH A CURRENT FORM OF MASS HYSTERIA WHICH IS MANIFESTED BY ABERRANT BEHAVIORS GENERATED BY FEAR AND HATRED IN WHICH FORMERLY PSYCHOLOGICALLY NORMAL, WELL-EDUCATED CITIZENS ABANDON LOGIC, CRITICAL THINKING, RESPECT FOR SOCIETAL NORMS SUCH AS DUE PROCESS, AVOIDANCE OF EXTREMISM AND FALSE ACCUSATIONS, TO ATTRIBUTE EVERY SOCIAL,LEGAL AND POLITICAL EVIL TO PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND HIS SUPPORTERS WITH THE OBSESSIVE ALL CONSUMING GOAL OF UNSEATING THIS PRESIDENT BY ANY AND ALL MEANS..
Just read the press, listen to the talking heads, observe the political machinations of the House Democrats, to observe for yourself that what we are experiencing is a massive case of obsessive hysterical behavior which seems to infect those of political left with a collective false and fearful illusion of threats to their progressive lifestyles and behaviors. These fears are as false and unreasonable as those of the past invasion of the Irish Army and the Salem Witch Trail accusations. But this form of mass hysteria is taking place in a presumably modern secular, society, which supposedly honors due process, logic, scientific method and conformity to the justice system of the modern world.
As a result of their unreasonable fears—like those of 1688 England and Wales and 1690s Salem— these so-called progressive folks are willing to tear down the bulwarks of Democracy in this nation, to abandon the central concept of our Constitution which affirms that only by elections—voters at the ballot boxes—can we legitimately pass the power to govern from one leader to another, that elections are sacred. Yes they are ready to abandon due process, to accept false accusations and flimsy allegations as the truth—“no need for verification”—, to embrace the extremism of the far fringe left, just to ally the awful fears magnified and repeated ad nauseous in the press and media.
Those of us who are not infected with this conformist collective obsession of fear must rise up and speak out in support of due process, justice system, logic and the rights of the people to decide —as per our constitution—who governs us in Washington DC. Firth to bring back critical thinking, science, moderation, logic, due process, and the idea that facts and truth must reign over flimsy allegations, innuendo and fabrications.
The survival of our nation depends on it.
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