The Traumatization of the American Psyche
By Larry Maglio
At the risk of sounding cliché, it has been said we are living in interesting, if not unusual times. It was reported the Chinese had a saying, “May you live in interesting times.” While the origins of this expression are still disputed, it has also been characterized as a Chinese curse because of the ironic nature of the expression. Interesting could mean turbulent times, war, etc. A related expression also attributed to the Chinese sheds some light on the ironic nature of the expression “It is better to be a dog during peacetime than a human in times of war.”
As a 13-year-old, John F. Kennedy, a childhood hero of mine and others was assassinated. Our collective feeling of security would never be the same. True my father and my uncles had dealt with Pearl Harbor, serving in WW2, and being witness to the extreme carnage and brutality experienced by our soldiers in the Korean War, however, events would start to rattle our security as a nation in our homeland from that point forward.
The turmoil starting with the Civil Rights movement, the Bay of Pigs fiasco, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, urban riots, the assassinations of MLK, & RFK helped to shatter a sense of domestic tranquility.
The assault continues today and has cost us as nation-we are no longer shocked because we are now suffering collectively from a form of post-traumatic stress (PTSD) disorder. We are beyond “shock” and somewhat desensitized to our new reality.
This is not without significant impact on our ability to grasp what is going on in our current realm. The numbing effect of being inundated with so many unprecedented events, both small and large is preventing any one event from getting the attention it should. We can hardly process the information when we are hit with some new event. For instance, Fani Willis’s boyfriend is known to have met with the Biden administration on one or two occasions.
In the past, our country was unlikely to tolerate open attempts to undermine the justice system, yet Nathan Wade’s collusion with the White House brings into question the Democrat's willingness to use the justice system to interfere in an election with no real legal basis.
The overreach of Biden’s executive branch to use the judicial system to sideline a competitor who is running ahead in the polls is the true crime. Compared to Richard Nixon’s charges regarding Watergate of “Obstruction of Justice” and “Abuse of Power” this ongoing attempt to derail President Trump’s election is far more dangerous to our Republic. Despite the significance of this alleged collusion, it hardly is in the headlines. Why? Partly, because the mainstream media fails to report news like professional journalists and in part because we the people have become numb to the extraordinary events of the day.
All this points to a grand conspiracy, which the “swamp” and the politicized government agencies, are not about to investigate. Not only does this conspiracy involve local jurisdictions in several states and the Federal government, but the timing of the prosecutions seems to point to a coordinated effort to negatively impact the leading opponent currently occupying the White House.
Meanwhile, the feckless Republicans show no inclination to roll up their sleeves and start demanding through their committees the log records of these meetings between Nathan Wade and the Administration to subpoena all parties to expose the true purpose of these meetings.
Maybe they will hit a vein of who is behind this conspiracy. Obama, Soros, the Clintons, Zuckerberg, and the remaining Koch brother. Who knows? This lawlessness must not be allowed to take place without repercussions-otherwise it will never stop.
James O’keefe, I know you are doing a lot to fight for truth and justice. Maybe you can put people inside the Justice Department and “fish” information on what’s going, on and who’s behind the underhanded if not outright illegal strategies we are witnessing to derail a major political candidate for President of the United States.
Maybe the citizens of New York can do a FOIA request asking for all Alvin Bragg’s visitors in the last two years before he decided to prosecute President Trump. Connections can be made.
As a youth, I watched with amazement at the Congressional hearings where the witnesses were given no quarter. They were questioned seriously and forcefully. When necessary they were broken by being caught in a lie. Today it seems like a pre-arranged show of amateur prosecutors who can’t frame a question maybe the exception of Elise Stefanik.
In any case, quote the slogan of James O’Keefe’s O'Keefe Media Group: “Be brave, do something.” Let’s make sure we don’t become so callous and numb, that we accept these “interesting times” as the norm-they are not. Do something, otherwise we lose this republic worked and fought for by our founders and those that followed.
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