Whatever personal positives the psychologically healthy individual brings to build a better world, they are today being replaced, even condemned, by misperceptions that government is solely responsible for building that better world. Subtle political messages are telling us that the individual, with his irrational thinking, capitalistic greed, and runaway impulses, going off in all directions without enlightened leadership, will forever be scrambling, and failing, to build anything that resembles a better world.
With this threat’s political ideology viewing government as the source of everything good, and the free-thinking individual as the source of everything bad, political mind-shapers are driving messages into our American culture and traditions to build that “better world” on the backs of naive, dependent, helpless, amoral, misguided, apathetic, suffering, and psychologically and intellectually challenged followers who blindly submit to political elites they have been led to believe have reached a state of self-inspired wisdom far beyond the common man’s capacity to understand.
All of this was possible because this threat never had a nemesis pushing back. It does now; you’re holding it: a new, scientific psychology specifically designed to challenge its illegitimate brand of political psychology point for point, and then some. Now the ideological playing field of politics is level. Now your political beliefs, and votes, count. Your newly enlightened words will pierce endless arguments with a legitimate psychology specifically designed to cut through the nonsense.
The new psychology you will discover in this book draws sharp lines; all Americans must choose a side. Both sides will be exposed for anyone to examine and compare. A prediction: Expect political battles to end with certain and predictable results, i.e., one political ideology will clearly win; one will clearly lose.
Isn’t this what we the people of America are crying out for? Isn’t it time to stand up to meet anti-American attacks with fact-filled reasons why America is exceptional? Why not address today’s collapsing of American values and traditions with prescriptive strategies and clear-cut methodologies that directly challenge political masterminds hawking their shifting ideology anyway they see fit? Don’t good people deserve something better for saving America from itself than a different political point of view?
My above triad of political controllers, willful controlees, and angry, resentful activists railing against critics, and demanding blind obedience to their “enlightened” leaders, yields a tightly organized cluster of psychological symptomologies I will expose by identifying, classifying, and diagnosing them so you can apply them on the spot.
Without this new psychological expertise held firmly in the hands of every patriotic American, corrupt politicians will never cease to exploit us in ways we’ll never notice, much less understand. Morally-challenged politicians will continue to give us what they want, not what we need. We’ll keep hearing solutions reinforced by warmed over, well-rehearsed, political psychobabble. Politicians may take a second look at their bad law or regulation, but in the end spend more of our tax money on it with their “good” intentions.
Beware of the so-called good intention in politics; it’s like the fabled Trojan Horse, i.e., appearing unexpectedly as a perfect answer to an intractable problem—until time reveals its true purpose. In many cases, it exacerbates the very problem it was supposed to correct. Why? The good intention in politics may not be about solving anything. It may be more about politely walking away from responsibility, feeling good, generating good feelings in others, exchanging action for inaction, avoiding hard choices or standing up for what is right, dodging issues, exploiting opportunities to grab power or secure riches, bending to powerful donors or influence, gaining attention, escaping blame, dodging criticism, deceiving, controlling others, or bestowing moral values on the self to appear honorable.
Trapping unsuspecting victims with good intentions, smiley faces, happy talk, optimistic predictions, or false promises is an old but reliable ruse. Pedophiles offer candy or car rides. Pimps offer companionship, protection, money, and promised paths out of misery. Political exploiters differ in strategies, but the end results are often the same: give potential victims whatever they want so they, without question, eventually nod in the affirmative to their certain demise. Psychologically distressed people are the first in line to bend. Once they bend, they are doomed to live marginal lives clinging to their misfortunes trusting government to make them whole—someday.
This political threat to America treats us as if our individual survival drive is under government control, not Mother Nature’s. But then, why not? Who or what controls the individual survival drive is a subliminal conflict that has never been resolved, and therefore is open to any and all opinions. Few people understand it; fewer still warn of violations against it. This has serious political implications. America’s treating the individual survival drive as if government owns it is a green light for this threat to speak with authority about what we instinctively hold to be most important to our very existence. Reaching deeply into the mind to replace Mother Nature with government gives political elites unlimited power to openly create helpless/dependent lifestyles on a grand scale, and sell them as ideal human conditions. Promoting “values” of personal helplessness or chronic dependency is not only anti-American or anti-liberty, it is symptomatic of widespread, government sanctioned, psychological dysfunction flying in the face of every natural law that governs human self-preservation.
The above triad of controllers, the controlled, and their rage-filled enforcers is, of course, found in variations of one basic political ideology: Communism/Marxism and today’s liberalism. Like Communism, America’s liberalism seeks crushing, total control over America’s citizens. Unlike Communism, America’s liberalism cannot use brute force-at least not for now. It faces two obstacles: a free people with traditions that respect rugged individualism, and a Constitution written over two centuries ago to protect them from a political juggernaut like today’s liberalism.
As of this writing, we the people of America have a narrow window of time to save our republic. But, do we have the will? Are we up to viewing politics, ourselves, and others through a magnifying lens of psychology? Is doing anything of significance with psychology worth the effort? Finally, how can anyone seriously believe that liberalism can be brought down with one book vowing to expose it? On the other hand, consider the power of exposure, but not any exposure.
Liberalism is a century and a half old institutional attack on the human mind.
Therefore, it has powerful defenses readied against anyone or anything that dares question it. But it is defenseless against a legitimate psychology organized specifically for neutralizing its illegitimate psychology—the weakest crack in its defensive wall.
Liberalism inhabits a dark, subterranean world of the mind where chronically unsatisfied exploiters thirst for riches, power, influence, and public adulation in American politics. Expose that and liberalism collapses. Now the failed struggle to fight liberalism is no longer about what liberals say or do; it’s about who and what liberals are.
The fact that it took over a century and a half to expose this outrageous example of political madness is evidence of how little we know about the human mind, and how much we have to learn. It’s bad enough that we the people of America have been hoodwinked by a relentless political juggernaut on a quest to control everything in its path; however, finding that it has entered our private thoughts to twist them into ridiculous distortions without our having a clue is unconscionable.
That being said, we the people of America now have a bullet-proof strategy to re awaken the very values in the political formula The Founders gave us. Thanks to a science of psychology, we now see that their suspicions were firmly anchored in humanity’s better instincts. Freedom to pursue happiness as one sees fit is a God-given right no government shall dishonor with arbitrary interpretations of government-given rights, nor badger us with twisted