No one analyzing America from a balanced perspective can deny any longer that the country has gone collectively insane. Certainly, there are still some rational, intelligent Americans around, but we must face the fact that a large segment of the population is totally nuts.

Worse, the ruling class is sociopathic and inherently evil.

This untenable situation has serious implications for our nation’s future stability, our living standards, and for democracy itself.

Americans are fearful people; and we can be pretty darn scary when we feel threatened – which is basically all the time. Fear brings out the worst in human nature. Scared people lash out angrily, violently, and irrationally. They willfully do harm to others, believing the damage is justified and that it’s their place to force others to submit to their will.

Fear is a serious problem, and it’s only getting worse as the anti-immigrant rhetoric intensifies. Humans are unable to think clearly when they’re scared out of their wits. Fear distorts perceptions and it forces people to make bad decisions based on emotions.

Those who still want to bomb Iran are crazy. The last thing America needed was to attack another Muslim country. That is what creates support for Islamic terrorists in the first place [and maybe that’s the point]! Does anyone still believe that attacking Iran made America more secure?

Rather than promote freedom and justice around the globe, America’s belligerent foreign policy has brought chaos and mayhem. The world is clearly not a safer place since 9/11.

The USA has traditionally supported some of the most violent, repressive regimes in history, and this trend continues to this day. Our greatest allies in the middle East are now the genocidal ultra-right wing government of Israel and the repulsive pederasts and serial human rights abusers in Saudi Arabia. WTF?

America breaks its own laws to wage terror across the planet, and it violates international treaties whenever it serves our interests. We encircle the globe with over 800 military bases. It’s no wonder people fear and loathe America to such an extent.

The warmongers know the blowback from bombing Iran will be catastrophic. The truth is they don’t really care as long as it sells more weapons. That’s the point.

But it’s not just Iran or Venezuela or Israel. On every major issue, the Trumpers have lost the capacity to recognize how absurd their claims of victimization are. Even worse, these self-righteous imbeciles are absolutely sure they know what is best for everyone.

They’ve got all the simple (wrong) answers for everything, and they become annoyed when they are forced to “dumb it down” to explain things to the rest of us normals.

Ideologues are not interested in negotiation or compromise of any sort. They don’t want to live in peace and harmony with anybody.

What they really want is to eliminate all of us free-thinkers from society and take everything for themselves. But they won’t openly admit that, of course. They vehemently deny it’s true.

That’s why you can’t have an actual debate with these two-faced demons: they lie to your face about their real motives and then they deny lying about it. That’s what sociopaths do. It’s genetic.

Most people are afraid for the wrong reasons. Americans are endlessly bombarded with fake threats: exaggerated warnings about immigrants, violent crime, Mexican drug cartels, terrorist plots, Muslims, negroes, Feminazis, Libtards, Fags…

Their go-to response is to load up on more ammo.

Conversely, those still capable of critical thinking – the lefties, liberals and progressives – are concerned for different reasons. These include an unresponsive government subsidizing dangerous levels of economic inequality; persistent racism; suppression of the rights of women, children, gays, and legal immigrants; a rising police state; endless costly wars and fake terror threats.

Not to mention all the angry, former military out there armed to the teeth and ready to snap at any moment…

These fears are real and quite valid. But they tend to be the ones that the US media denies or ignores.

A growing body of research confirms that stupidity robs people of the ability to recognize their own ignorance. In other words: dumb people are too incompetent to realize how stupid they are. The Dunning–Kruger effect refers to a cognitive bias study in which incompetent people were shown to suffer from the illusion of superiority, mistakenly rating their own abilities much higher than others.

This bias is attributed to the inability of the ignorant and unskilled to recognize their own ineptitude. Even worse: they fail to see genuine skill in others, because they think they’re better than everyone else!

Too many people are driven by paranoia and a maniacal obsession to live the mythological ‘American Dream;’ brainwashed by their corporate masters to love only money. They are inundated with materialism, false individualism and a cycle of endless violence. They’re afraid to stop hoarding their precious guns; hounded by their creditors; hustled to no end by corrupt church leaders, media shills and crooked politicians.

The public is blinded by their belief that they still live in a democracy while their political choice is limited to a single corporate party with two branches.

As the late, great, George Carlin once said:

“When you’re born into this world, you’re given a ticket to the freak show. If you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.”

Enjoy it while it lasts!

[edited repost from 2015..!]