Our National Political Nervous Breakdown
The hateful and bizarre politics of Trumpers, along with a rash of psychiatric and somatic ills sweeping America, suggest a malady akin to what destroyed France in 1940.
By
David Gottfried
If only redemption were as simple as singing this sainted song of France:
The patient is in extremis. The South is screaming its ass off and has Archie Bunker’s malignant hypertension. The Rocky Mountain States suffer from Marjorie Taylor Greene psychosis, but are, thankfully, temporarily not doing anything about it as they don’t know who they want to decapitate. In the Upper Midwest, Father Coughlin wannabes are popularizing 1930’s fascism and anti Semitism. Meanwhile, the West and East coasts, the historical hot beds of zany, crazy behavior, alternate between what might be sanity and what is more probably pernicious preppie anemia, a monstrous malady in which normal people become nebbishy (In Yiddish, a nebbish is a timid, weak, boring a-hole) nerds and are utterly exhausted because their lives have been devoted toward kissing their bosses smelly asses, running ragged in the rat race and acquiring more and more junky, unnecessary, crappy products manufactured in China.
You think I’m exaggerating. Keep reading or, as Trump said, “there will be a bloodbath.”
Do you remember Little Dickey Richard Nixon. When he was president, New York progressives thought he was either a Neanderthal nut or a Nazi. Compared to Trump, Richard Nixon had the sagacity of Socrates, the machinating skill of Machiavelli, and the splendid moral sensibility of St. Francis of Assisi.
Give me a fucking break !!! Trump said that if he doesn’t win there will be no more elections. He said that he’ll tell Russia to do “whatever they feel like doing” to our allies. And the insanity is as catching as Covid: Marjorie Taylor Greene said that there are fires in the Southwest because Jews went to outer space and aimed lasers at the Southwest (Hey, Little Miss Mad Marjorie: Since you think we Jews are cheap, why would we build lasers and fly to outer space to start fires; couldn’t we just use Bic lighters)
The Republicans in Congress are, for the most part, Heterosexual Faggots
(My apologies to anyone who thinks that my use of the word “faggots” is discriminatory. I mean no offense to gay people. Keep reading and that should be self-evident.)
And what about the great majority of Republicans in Congress. Most of them profess to support Trump. However, numerous reports reveal that most of them think he is a scoundrel who should be booted out of the political arena. Indeed, I remember a report, in the New York Times from around 2016, which indicated that some republican legislators believed that Trump was getting money from Moscow.
Yes, Mueller’s investigation of Trump’s ties to Russia did not result in the prosecution of Trump, but remember the litany of crimes Mueller uncovered. A superabundance of evidence shows that Trump had alarming and traitorous relations with the Russian government. Just savor one of dozens of ugly factoids, that no one has refuted, that – standing by itself -- should put the burden of proof on Trump to prove that he’s not a foreign agent:
The manager of his 2016 presidential campaign, Paul Manafort, received millions of dollars from Russia. And the money was laundered. More specifically, Russia sent money to Manafort’s creditors so there would be no record of having sent money to Manafort. Russia sent over one million dollars to a retail men’s clothing store in Manhattan to outfit Paul Manafort, aka the beauty queen of the republican party, and they sent huge hunks of money to a party which transferred real estate to Manafort. If Russia’s transmission of money to Manafort was legitimate, why did they have to hide it ??
The Republicans in Congress back Trump because they fear that if they told the truth they would be destroyed by the Republican base. They cowardly cling to their careers to support a traitor.
Do you remember the movie “Network” and its delightfully loony anchorman who told the America people to go to their windows and shout, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.”
I want my fellow Americans to shout out a rhetorical question with a lot more specificity and sting:
Go to your windows and shout the following:
“Were our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan allowed to leave the army and go to the Bahamas if they were afraid of getting killed by an IED (An Improvised Explosive Device). Of course not. Then why are Republican Congressman allowed to violate their oath of office, and support traitor Trump who they know and believe is a traitor, even though they earn so much more money than soldiers, are cossetted with all the luxuries lobbyists' money can buy, and don’t have to worry about getting killed.”
The Republican Party is largely hostile to gay rights. To most republicans, gay people are a bunch of despicable faggots.
But who are the chief faggots of America? Republican legislators who have not an iota of spine, of grit, of balls, of manliness, of decency, of courage.
Who are the leading faggots of America ? Mitch Mc Connel is a supersized sissy faggot who made it clear that he thinks that Trump is a crook and nevertheless supports Trump. Who is a faggot ? Smiling, slinking, sissified confederate kapo Lindsay Graham, whose cardinal interest throughout his career has been the American military and opposing the "Russian bear, “ who supports Trump wholeheartedly.
They are whores who vote against background checks for the purchase of guns because they are the obedient bitches of the NRA. They are whores who condone the excessive use of antibiotics and hormones in industrial agriculture’s raising of livestock, increasing bacterial resistance to antibiotics and disrupting endocrine homeostasis, because they sold their cocks to chemical companies. They are whores who allow less regulation of dialysis, for patients with kidney failure, than any western European country, resulting in an American death rate from dialysis which is the highest in the industrialized world.
For every minute they have spent examining chemical and industrial toxins in the environment, they have spent 10 hours investigating every aspect of Hunter Biden’s life, Hillary Clinton’s emails, and Bill Clinton’s sex drive.
I have a confession to make. When it comes to our corrupt republican legislators, I don’t believe in due process of law. I believe in stockades, I believe in tarring and feathering ala the American Revolution, I believe in degrading punishments that will make them deeply ashamed of themselves until the day they finally croak.
Yeah, Mr. Donald Duck Trump, there is a swamp in Washington. It is a toxic swamp with the moral sensibility of malarial mosquitoes. And the swamp’s headquarters are the Republican Party.
America is having a nervous breakdown in all areas of life, including the wide world outside of Politics.
The psychological well-being of Americans is in free fall:
1) The Suicide Rate is Rising
2) The proportion of adults who are single is rising.
3) The proportion of adults who never married is rising.
4) The proportion of households that are single person households is rising.
5) Female to male transgenderism has been rising exponentially.
6) The percentage of men obtaining social security disability benefits keeps rising.
7) Bed-wetting is rising.
8) Children are getting toilet trained at later and later ages.
9) Autism is rising.
10) Colleges are up to 60 percent female as more and more boys are alienated from education and suffer from a smorgasbord of psychiatric problems.
11) The aforementioned problems keep getting worse even though record numbers of Americans receive psychiatric treatment, including the use of multiple psychotropic Medicinals.
12) I could cite violence, school shootings and passengers attacking airline stewards when asked to wear a mask, but I don’t have solid numbers indicating that these ills have gotten worse.
The aforementioned psychiatric phenomena are matched by increases in peculiar somatic aberrations:
1) Testosterone levels in men are falling.
2) Sperm counts are falling.
3) Gynecomastia (man tits) is rising.
4) Colon cancer is rising among young adults.
5) Testicular cancer is rising.
6) Brain cancer is rising.
7) Since around 2014, life expectancy in America has been falling.
Scientists should determine whether environmental toxins are wreaking havoc with the American body and mind just as American and British Scientists Determined, in 1940, that environmental factors may have led to the fall of France to Nazi Germany.
When France fell to the Germans, in May and June of 1940, Britain and America were mortified. The French army had been adjudged to be one of the most potent fighting forces in the globe, yet it vanished like a puff of smoke. American and British doctors investigated to determine if environmental factors had undermined the French psyche.
American and British scientists concluded that France may have been harmed because virtually all its flour was highly refined and stripped of B vitamins. B vitamins are essential to the nervous system. French citizens were not suffering patent vitamin B deficiency disease, but the American and British doctors concluded that the French may have been subject to petite, or subclinical vitamin B deficiency disease, and this may have resulted in neurological deficits affecting reaction time, physical coordination, intellectual capability and emotional stability. Obviously, any of these deficits may have impaired the French will and ability to fight.
The American and British doctors found that flour in Germany was not highly refined and had more B vitamins. They warned that flour in America and Britain resembled French flour as it was highly refined and stripped of B vitamins.
Because of their research, Great Britain and the United States ordered that all flour, in their respective nations, be fortified with B vitamins. The mandatory fortification of flour began in the Autumn of 1940. (Roosevelt and Churchill knew how to ram programs through sluggish bureaucracies.)
In any event, environmental factors may have played a role in the doom of the Third Republic of France. Are environmental factors making America a nation with the aforementioned a) increase in psychiatric deviations, b) increase in physical aberrations and c) inundation with psychotic, masochistic politics ?
It's time for doctors to put America on the examining table,
I discussed some of these issues in a prior article on substack which can be found at https://davidgottfried.substack.com/p/what-the-delusions-of-trumpers-and