Once again, someone tried to assassinate Donald Trump, and once again, the media tried to convince us that it didn't happen.
This is the reality of what I call Cluster B societies, and the situation is getting worse every day.
Why do our politicians and cultural institutions seem to suffer from the same psychosis that drives private domestic violence?
But that is nothing compared to what awaits us if we elect Kamala Harris as president.
Coffee Talk
What we call “domestic violence” has become public and barbaric, and more specifically, the dynamics of Cluster B personality disorders (extreme narcissism, manipulation, sociopathy, emotional instability) dominate public discussion.
For the last few years, I've been discussing this on my weekly show with my friend Kevin Hurley.dissatisfaction”
My mother first helped me understand the dysfunction of our country.
It was 2016, and I was in her kitchen at 8pm sipping coffee, holding a spoon, a well-worn one from her childhood, one of the original set with the vine motif.
I had to be very careful lowering it onto the counter. If I lowered it too quickly, I would hear an audible “click” as it hit the counter. If I lowered it too clumsily, it would fall and the ends would bounce up and rattle.
Don't make any noise or my mother will scream.
I was 41 at the time, and terrified that any clattering with the spoon would trigger my mother to hurl foul language at me, often directed at her husband: “stupid,” “a brain-damaged idiot,” “incapable of doing anything right.”
That moment changed my life. It was a turning point. I was 41, but I was also 7, and I held my breath, shrugged my shoulders, and hoped I would be too small, too quiet, to be noticed.
Clang!
It wasn't exactly my mother's kitchen. She lived there, but I owned the house. I bought it to rent to her, as a place for her to live in her old age and poverty. In just two years, my mother's insanity had forced me to choose between becoming addicted to Valium or washing it down with vodka every night to keep myself awake.
“This has to end. It has to end now or I'm dead.”
I called my sister. What happened to my mom? What's happening to my mom? Why are you making up stories that didn't happen? Why are you lying to my face and accusing me of things I didn't do? Does she have Alzheimer's?
“Josh, she doesn't have dementia. I think our mother is a narcissist. I think she has a personality disorder,” my sister said.
I spent the next three days reading everything I could about Cluster B personality disorders.
Something amazing happened: I was watching a lifetime of “crazy,” “disjointed,” crazy behavior fit neatly into categories. Like an industrial packaging machine, my memories were self-organizing into slots, into taxonomies. Ka-chunk, ka-chunk, ka-chunk.
I found a key to understanding the kind of childhood most people think they only see in low-budget TV movies: my mother's swings from joy to despair to anger. the lies. the assertions that everyone, from my brother-in-law to the grocery store manager, resented her. the screams on my children's faces as my mother shook us by the shoulders and yelled, “Why are you doing this to me!”
To bring it closer to the present day: when I discovered the source of family chaos, I also discovered one of the causes of our current cultural crisis.
Cluster B countries
Cluster B. The emotional instability and self-victimization of BPD and the delusions of grandiosity and insatiable vanity of narcissistic personality disorder. Why do our politicians and cultural institutions seem to be plagued by the same psychopathologies that drive private domestic violence?
Because they do. It started in my former political and cultural stronghold, the far left, the woke left. But it has metastasized. It's no longer just the “far left” that behaves like an emotionally out-of-control dictator. It's the mainstream left.
It's American mainstream culture. The White House. MSNBC, CNN, NPR, The New York Times (prepare your own endless series). It's our teachers, our cultural leaders, our doctors, our universities.
We live in a Cluster B world, and if we don't realise this fact, we will be doomed.
Gaslight this!
In the hours immediately following the assassination attempt on Trump, the mainstream media did everything in their power to make it “not real.” They did so with plausible deniability. Headlines read things like “At Golf Course Near Trump.”
The media to assert, to assert Due to the fog of war and the like, they were simply being cautious and careful in the immediate aftermath.
This is not true. The media is deliberately trying to hide the fact that someone was trying to kill Trump again. They wanted to keep Americans from having the normal emotional reaction and concern to a presidential candidate being targeted for assassination.
This is gaslighting and it's something that's very difficult for me personally. You could even say it fired me up.
Like you, I cringe at the words “gaslighting” and “triggering,” but I use these words for what they really, truly, and originally mean: these phenomena existed and are still real. nevertheless These words have been co-opted and abused by the left.
Look what you made me do
After the government and the FBI were forced to admit that it was a second assassination attempt (ironically), the media finally revealed the truth, but then they changed course and started accusing Trump of being the one to target him.
This is evil. That's what the word “evil” means. This is pure Cluster B abuse. It's exactly like an abused child being blamed by their parent for causing the abuse.
This has been going on since my childhood. My mother would blame me and say it was my fault that she was angry with me. Not only was I punished for the initial infraction, but I was also punished for causing her to become violent and verbally abusive towards me.
Yes, even as a child not even ten years old, I knew this was morally insane. I was never ignorant of it. I was enraged and desperate. I prayed to God to stop her and to give me justice.
Justice was not served. When my home life became too dangerous to ignore, as happens to every child with an abusive parent, I was placed in a juvenile prison. Children are institutionalized, put in juvenile halls, or placed in correctional facilities for missing children because of their parents' actions. Children are punished for the literal, statutory crimes their parents committed against them.
My beloved Kamala
Donald Trump is being severely punished today.
And as we saw in the debate, Kamala Harris is now the instrument of that punishment: a brazen, shameless liar who deliberately provoked Trump with the express purpose of putting him on the defensive, knowing that no one could stop her.
That theatrical smirk, that chin-on-your-finger pose, that sneering Hillary Clinton-esque head shake. It's gross.
If this country elects Kamala Harris, it will be electing my mother's lookalike.
Manly?
Some men will accuse me of whining, they will interpret me as saying that the only problem with the debate was that Kamala Harris was mean to Donald Trump, and that the purpose of my essay was to generate some personal, boyish sympathy for him.
I get it. Like me, these men are tired of the feminization of society. They're tired of men being wimps who are subservient to slick women. They're tired of seeing men forced to “emotionally express” feelings, as if they have the same feelings as women. They're rightly tired of grown adults, especially other men, acting like boys and not being able to behave like grown men.
I am with them, we agree, but some of them mistakenly think that I am against them.
These men are so repulsed by feminization that they go too far and start justifying the actual, substantive abuse of men by women. They focus only on the man's reaction. Their only criticism is that men are not cool enough. Always. In every situation. No matter how outnumbered. No matter how obviously rigged the legal system.
This is going too far: these men are not actually acting as comrades to the men targeted in this way, but are repeating the very same abuse perpetrated against these men.
These injustices are intolerable. Modern men, no matter how muscular, how arrogant, how cool, how manly they are, are powerless to survive outside a feminized system where male-specific abuse and disempowerment are legally and culturally enforceable.
If you are one of the men I am talking about, no matter how highly you think you are able, you too are not masculine enough. You too are constrained to some degree by this system.
Relief from the burden of restraints
The bottom line is that Kamala Harris is a dangerous psychopath who has gotten away with it largely because she is a woman, and who benefits from the false perception that women are less dangerous than men.
If she wins, Harris will be committing a psychopathic act against all of us, not just Donald Trump.
I point out narcissistic abuse so that you can see it and understand how it works and how dangerous its effects can be.
I do this not to make you feel any personal sympathy for Donald Trump, but to help you understand what Kamala Harris is going to do to you, your families, your children, your legal system, your tax system, and everything else that she could destroy if she were given more power.
