The Incurable TDS

by Deborah C. Tyler, American Thinker:

We are living through an astonishing time in our nation’s political history. Somewhat more than half of Americans see President Trump as a leader of courage, energy, and commitment with a proven record of promoting peace and strengthening both the U.S. economy and the southern border against an illegal invasion, whereas the other half sees only personal evil in Trump and describes him with adolescent hyperbole, habitually comparing him to Adolf Hitler. That half is not able to thoughtfully assess Trump’s policies, or even its own economic or political interests. Instead, these people cling to a sense of moral superiority and are obsessed with the imputed personal sins of a man they despise.

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This obsessive hatred, popularly called Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), is not a free-standing mental disorder. Rather, it is a delusional symptom cluster at the terminal stage of a sixty-year vast, progressively insane attempt by the left wing, especially the cultural, educational and political elites, to entrain the American people to despise their nation, their laws, and themselves in order to break their self-respect and mentally enslave them to government control. Few people can stand against the indoctrination and brainwashing that they have been exposed to all their lives.

The terminal TDS symptom cluster arose when Donald Trump, almost alone, stood up with an unbreakable resolve and rejected to its core the quasi-religious, anti-American indoctrination inculcated and absorbed across the lifespan of most living Americans. Trump’s message, that America and her people are actually great, good, and just, created, among those indoctrinated to multifaceted America-shaming, a psychological recoil proportional to their anti-American brainwashing, a recoil so violent as to render them irrational and hateful toward the man who challenged their beliefs.

When psychoanalysts try to understand mental disorder, they begin with the conflicts of childhood. The same model explains the incurability of TDS when we conceptualize the arrival of the Baby Boom generation as a kind of childhood for America. Several conditions of the Baby Boom generation set the stage for 60 years of America-shaming, which reached its current culmination in TDS. First, the Baby-Boomers were the first generation to be raised in improved material security, which tends to loosen the bonds of family and societal loyalty. More importantly, they were the first generation to cast off the strictures of what we will call Judeo-Christian morality, to use the sociological term. The Baby Boom generation was the first to abandon religion-based morality, the only consensually accepted moral code in American history, in favor of a secular ethical system that emphasizes personal freedom. And lastly, the Boomers were the first generation where the privilege of access to a modernized, non-classical higher education vastly expanded to include the middle class. For many Americans, these factors set the stage for a shift into disloyalty and ingratitude.

The Baby-Boomers coming of age in the backdrop of the Vietnam War set a pattern of bifurcation of American society from which there is a direct line to the terminus of TDS. The objection to the Vietnam war was not only the moral rejection of the cruelty of war itself. If it had been, the Boomers would have cared about the Vietnamese people after the war, which they did not. The 1960s saw the founding of a socio-political worldview that America herself was a malevolent force in the world — greedy, militaristic, polluting — instead of the truth, which is that America was and is the beacon of freedom in the world. That worldview can be called adaptive America-shaming.

America-shaming is adaptive for reasons that still obtain today. First, it relieves its adherents of responsibility to defend their nation and provides the gratification of feeling morally and intellectually superior to those who do. It provides a gratifying experience of that superiority without the bother of actual moral self-control, charity, or selfless service. Above all, it is much easier to solve imaginary problems than real ones. It is easier to bemoan non-problems such as diversity and America being evil than to solve severe, difficult problems — for example, the decades-long astronomical increase in autism.

So adaptive America shaming was off to the races from the ’60s. In a crescendo of falsehoods through the years, America was racist, just as structural racism was disappearing. America oppressed women, just as discrimination against girls and women was smashed. America was homophobic, just as sexual minorities were placed on a glittering cultural pedestal. America was burning up the world with pollution, just as actual pollution was being vanquished in the water and air.

The problem with big lies is that they can never turn into truth. On the contrary, big lies have to become more strident, bloated, anti-factual, and anti-natural as time goes on. But across fifty years of media and educational indoctrination, sophisticated Americans who rejected traditional faith more and more could not give up their unearned moral superiority. They had no choice but to accept increasingly insane assertions, such as that all white people are privileged or that a boy is a girl if he says so or that unworkable electric vehicles will keep the world from burning up a few months from now.

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The Miserable Cost Of An Open Border

Authored by Seth Barron via RealClearPolitics,

The Biden-Harris experiment in dissolving the U.S. border has wrought massive changes to American society, most of which will not be understood for years, if not decades. Since 2021, U.S. border officials have had at least 10 million “encounters” with migrants, many of whom were allowed to enter the country. There is no telling how many more aliens entered the country without encountering enforcement agents. The population of the United States may have increased by as much as 15 million people in just a few years.

This massive flow of humanity crosses multiple national borders, involves every mode of transportation, accounts for billions of dollars paid in fees to smugglers, and describes a fantastically complex economy of suffering and hope. In an effort to get a handle on this human tide, noted muckraker James O’Keefe – known for his hidden camera “gotcha” interviews with abortionists, media executives, progressive nonprofit executives, and other degenerate types – traces the migrant onrush from its source, and seeks to trace the machinery of profit and influence that is conducting it from great removes.

“Line In The Sand,” the resulting documentary, is a remarkable and humane exposition, revealing perspectives and images American audiences have mostly been prevented from seeing. O’Keefe and his intrepid team begin on the U.S. side of the Mexican border, where we witness migrants crossing the border through holes that their guides have cut in a fence that serves as a target as much as a barrier. Infrared cameras show dozens of illegal aliens streaming toward “pick-up” vehicles on the U.S. side while smugglers – presumably cartel members – a few feet away taunt O’Keefe and his group. “What if I were to run up to them right now, what would happen?” O’Keefe asks his guide. “I would highly advise you against that,” he is told, in a classic understatement.

The fact that coyotes and other human traffickers are paid to assist northbound migrants with their passage is no scandal; we all know what their motivations are and why they are doing what they do. But O’Keefe documents multiple examples of U.S. Border Patrol agents standing idly by while illegal aliens cross, virtually under their noses. “Why aren’t you doing anything?” he asks. “Have a good day, guys,” a border agent desultorily responds before driving off in the general direction of the episode. Later, a migrant stands in front of a Border Patrol truck, clearly trying to alert the agents of his intention to surrender, but is studiously ignored until O’Keefe and his team call their attention to him.

There is a kind of sad comedy in the operations of U.S. border security, and O’Keefe is not unsympathetic to the absurd position that border agents have been put in. Trained to defend the national border and to serve as the first line of defense of American soil, these agents have been recommissioned as a perverse Welcome Wagon for illegal aliens, charged with making their undocumented and uninvited entrance to the United States as commodious as possible.

Looking to get deeper into the heart of this migratory avalanche, O’Keefe went deep into Mexico, to the city of Irapuato, about 150 miles northwest of Mexico City. Irapuato is a popular railway junction where thousands of migrants climb aboard “La Bestia,” or “The Beast,” a cargo train that chugs northward toward the United States. In the film’s most remarkable footage, O’Keefe and his team join with migrants, mostly from South and Central America, to ride The Beast, also known as “el Tren del Muerto,” or the Train of Death. O’Keefe talks to the migrants without condescension, asking them their destinations and what they plan to do when they get there, and their concerns about the perilous nature of the journey. We see the film crew race to jump on a moving train and clamber on top to sit in a pile of coal; O’Keefe is shocked at how truly dangerous this small element of the trip is and sympathizes with the migrants’ difficult choices. These scenes are among the film’s most affecting, along with the crew’s random encounter with a little girl who had just crossed the border after journeying from Guatemala by herself. There is a human dimension to illegal immigration, and O’Keefe does not ignore it.

However, there is also an impersonal dimension to this massive population transfer, and O’Keefe determinedly aims to uncover it – to put a face to the institutions and administrators that benefit from the rough injection of millions of people into American society. From government agents to bus companies to nonprofit resettlement groups to private contractors running huge, walled compounds housing thousands of children, O’Keefe doggedly tries to penetrate the mechanics of a system that resolutely hides itself behind a screen of silence, usually in the name of “safety” and “privacy.”

Some of the film’s more comical moments pertain to these segments, such as when the team follows some just-arrived Chinese migrants in San Diego to an employment agency, where other Chinese aliens, already in the country for several months, complain that it’s much harder to live in the United States than they had imagined. O’Keefe tries to sniff out a connection between the owner of the agency and more powerful actors, but it emerges that there really isn’t much going on; in fact, the owner asks O’Keefe if he knows of a way to apply for government grants.

Elsewhere, O’Keefe tries to get information about the operations of several huge residential centers for unaccompanied minors and tries to spin their refusal to give him access to the centers or submit to interviews as evidence of the existence of vast, government-funded child sex trafficking networks. But it seems more likely, though no less troubling, that the open borders policy of the last four years has created a tremendous humanitarian crisis of alien children roaming the continent by themselves, and the government is probably trying to keep them from becoming prey to sex traffickers while they sort out where to send them. Though O’Keefe does not uncover a salacious network of child predators, his vigorous pursuit of the truth does reveal the existence of a large, shadowy, government-funded, and lucrative system of child “welfare.”

So, “Line In The Sand” is correct in the larger sense that billions of dollars are being spent managing this human flow, and many people are getting rich off of it. The last thing these parasitical administrators of the nonprofit industrial complex want is for the border to close. O’Keefe does a great job of capturing in real time the corruption of a local New York City nonprofit called La Jornada, whose leader, Pedro Rodriguez, evidently perpetrates fraud, demanding fees for services that the city provides for free. O’Keefe also sends a Spanish-speaking reporter undercover into the Roosevelt Hotel, New York City’s main processing center for newly-arrived migrants, which offers him free housing, medical care, and even airplane tickets, even though the reporter explains that he has no identification of any sort. How, O’Keefe asks, in our post 9/11 security-obsessed era, are we to make sense of a system that admits millions of unvetted foreigners into the country, and then offers to fly them anywhere they care to go?

“Line In The Sand” is rough in parts, but intentionally so. Its subject is so sprawling and tangled that a neat and clean representation would be a lie. Even with a nine-figure budget – which this film assuredly did not have – a documentary about the border and the 30 million-footed human swarm that has crossed it would be messy and incomplete. But James O’Keefe and his small team have done something remarkable. They have taken on the decade’s biggest story, given it form, and preserved the humanity of its subjects. It is worth watching.

Seth Barron is a writer in New York and author of the forthcoming “Weaponized from Humanix.”

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Sat, 12/07/2024 – 17:30