Abusers promise it won't happen again and I've considered the r leadership abusive for some time. If we don't find a way to change minds and outlooks, the U.S. will live with this unrest and sedition until it falls. I'd like to see psychiatric profiles of the rank and file in the mob. I think it'd be possible that the people are abused or abusers and from that very personal outlook, took on a role in the mob that reflected their personal demons.
We can't even save most people locked into a personal dynamic of abuse, and I don't know how we can change that dynamic if it is part of the underlying force that is driving the hate and anger against Democrats and the Constitution of the U.S. Of course, abusers don't want the Constitution to prevail, because in the broad sense, personal freedom works against the control they need to have. The abused will be willing to listen to any powerful figure or message and be obedient to what commands are in the message.
I'd like to know why so many military and police, active or retired, were swept up in taking part the trying to topple our government. Because of the many murders of minorities over the last few years, we know that there is some kind of failure in current training methods of police. I'm going a step further to say there is the same kind of failure in the training of military. If there isn't a failure in training, then there is a failure in recruitment. In order to defuse professional and government security from siding against our country, we have to make sure they are instilled with the idea that they defend the Constitution of the U.S. And we need to vet the people who are chosen to serve as soldiers and community security. We need to examine companies like Blackwater, to see how their training is creating mindless personnel with no moral compass.
Another underlying factor is economic. There are people who have too much and want to keep it, people who don't have what they want, and people who either expected to have a life handed to them, or don't have the prospect of that life getting handed to them. We aren't just dealing with poverty stricken people in great need. A lot of the people in the mob had expensive costumes, uniforms, gear, tats, hair styles and phones. For the people who are in financial trouble, I'm thinking they'd be better off if they spent their money paying bills rather than buying camo, but that's me. I think there's a lot of people in that mob who had the expectation that adult life would be much easier. American high school culture creates an artificial sense of entitlement. Popularity in particular is tied to beauty. The pretty people are usually the ones who are ranked highest. The other kids find a niche and work on having a future. I've been struck many times by how pretty the wait staff is in so many bars and restaurants. I bet if you asked, they'd have been popular in high school and didn't give preparing for their future as much thought as their place in the school hierarchy. They are disappointed, angry and frustrated that Life isn't handing them a bowl of cherries. And this part of the mob are going to swallow whole the propaganda they hear from television and leadership. And by the way, as long as people like roger stone, murdock, limbaugh, and their acolytes, have a hand in shaping the republican party, we will have ugly problems that will fester and pop like this attack on the government.
There is a lot wrong with what our childrearing, educating and social expectations deliver in all generations and we need to make some changes so that we can defuse the weapon that is constantly reloaded against our country. In the meantime, I am not willing to come back to the middle, unless people on the other side can grok that they are supporting an attack on the U.S. that is more dangerous than attacks from other countries. We have an enemy within.
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