There is an ancient plague among us that is much more deadly than the coronavirus.

[shockey80]

Throughout the history of mankind there have been people who suffered from this cognitive defect. The inability to process information correctly. The inability to assess the risk, the danger, of the decisions, choices they make. Throughout history, when large numbers of people who suffered from this defect, rallied around an evil idea, an evil person, the results were catastrophic. It is happening now, here in America.

We have roughly 60 millions Americans who are blindly following Trump. They see what they are doing as good, normal, the right thing to do. They do not see the risk and danger of supporting Trump. That's the cognitive defect. Here are a few more examples of how much danger we are in.

Trump told farmers he would make farmers great again. Many farmers were ecstatic, they fell in love with Trump. Trump put in place tariffs and many of these farmers lost their farms. THEN, some of these farmers committed suicide.

Millions of Trump voters have healthcare through Obamacare. Trump told them he would get rid of Obamacare on day one. He told them he would give them something better and cheaper. He never told them what it would be. They still voted for him. Many of these Trump voters are going to die if they lose their healthcare.

Trump told his voters he would drain the swamp. They cheered wildly. Trump then gutted all of are government agencies including the one's that protect us from viruses. Trump voters still cheer when Trump says drain the swamp. Many Trump voters will die from the coronavirus before this is over. Trump has gutted the protections we have to combat an economic disaster. Trump voters cheer wildly.

What we are facing is what happened to the people of Germany in the 1930's, 1940's. Millions of average, smart, good german people who suffered from this cognitive defect came together and they destroyed themselves. They were unable to assess the danger of an obvious lunatic, Hitler. They went all in, blindly following Hitler. Many Germans who did not suffer from this cognitive defect tried to kill Hitler many times. Many of them fled Germany before it was too late. There are many more example of this cognitive defect throughout history.

Any American who cannot see the danger of Trump after all the shit that has happened, suffers from this cognitive defect. They will kill themselves and us if this continues on much longer.

When did the world turn upside down? That's what I am asking now. Nothing makes sense anymore. I bet there have been many people before me who have asked the same question throughout history, when many people came together suffering from this ancient cognitive defect and completely destroyed themselves.

[FoxNewsSucks]

1. Makes sense

I get that there are a lot of stupid people, but I'm completely unable to comprehend the everyday intelligent people who are tRump humpers. Who keep cheering him on while they lose everything.

[defacto7]

2. K&R

[Jeebo]

3. Thank you for that, it's a good piece.

Ken Burns said the orange raccoon's rise is "Hitler-esque" and I've been having that thought too for some time now. Here's a link to that interview:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/2/16/1919687/-Documentarian-Ken-Burns-warned-Trump-s-rise-would-be-Hitler-esque-here-s-what-else-he-predicted?detail=emaildkbow

[42bambi]

4. Their amygdala hasn't evolved, thus, there is little cognitive function. The

amygdala is involved in associating a stimulus with its emotional value and Trump tapped into that. Also, possible is the 2 factor theory of emotion; first an arousal, second, the reason of arousal. Trump hits both, he sets it up and then allows his cult to decide.

[alittlelark]

5. Native Americans call it Wetiko.

https://exploringyourmind.com/wetiko-virus-selfishness-native-americans/

https://realitysandwich.com/75652/greatest_epidemic/

[shockey80]

6. Thank you, Wetiko says it all. I will remember Wetiko.

Native Americans were very wise in their own way.

[dweller]

8. i've always referred to it

as ' self-importance' and it will be the downfall of the human being

✌🏼

[misanthrope]

9. U.S. Senator Henry Dawes (R-Mass.) when first visiting indigenous people in Oklahoma

reported the following:

The head chief told us that there was not a family in that whole nation that had not a home of its own. There was not a pauper in that nation, and the nation did not owe a dollar. It built its own capital, and it built its own school and its hospitals.

Yet the defect of the system was apparent. They have not got as far as they can go because they own their land in common, and under that [system] there is no enterprise to make your home any better than that of your neighbor’s. There is no selfishness, which is at the bottom of civilization.

Ironic that a key plank in the resulting determined assimilation of indigenous people into contemporary American society was indoctrination into Christianity yet anyone who could read for themselves that its central figure -- Jesus of Nazareth -- couldn't have stood any more in opposition to what Dawes stated.

[shockey80]

7. Wetiko: A virus of selfishness which makes humanity its own worst enemy.

We destroy ourselves.

[NBachers]

10. I have a theory that you could go to any point in human history & find the same cast of characters.

The same exploiters, the same pseudo-religious charlatans, the same venal, hateful rabble; the same evolved figures trying to pull us out of our own mire.