How far must schizo-paranoia go to be considered advanced enough and capable enough to commit acts of criminal insanity?
This is the question we must
ask, and for which we must try to find an answer because things are murky now
and promise to become even murkier.
Suppose you live in a fairly
quiet neighborhood, but there is this one neighbor who occasionally disturbs
the place with outbursts that can be described as paranoid in nature. He goes
around warning the neighbors that bad people are eyeing the neighborhood,
intending to rampage it, beat the residents and rob them.
His outbursts become more
frequent with the passage of time, and the paranoia now seems to have mutated into
a case of schizo-paranoia. It is that he dresses like a soldier of an earlier
era, wields a sword, and claims to be the only one capable of slaying the gang
that's threatening the neighborhood. You and everyone else begin to fear that
he will soon commit an act of criminal insanity.
Do you live in a neighborhood
such as that? You may think you're not, but if you live anywhere in America,
you live in that neighborhood because America is it. You see, my friend,
America is the only one going around the world and getting involved in fights
while claiming that the world is full of quarreling dictators who wish to harm
America without being provoked. And the only way to be safe, say these
Americans, is to buy safety, security and peace by increasing America's
military strength. And so, they want America to arm itself more than it does
now. Do you know what this is? It is schizo-paranoia that's serious enough to
be viewed as bordering on criminal insanity.
What's adding to America's
troubles is that it has a split personality. In addition to being
schizo-paranoid, its ruling class is not sure whether it is patriotic nativist
American or dual-loyalty Jewish American. These people have enough pride in
what America has accomplished in science and technology, and at least during
the Second World War, to sacrifice all they have and serve America's interests.
But as if hypnotized by a force they do not understand, they also feel driven
to trample all over the American flag and Constitution when such acts serve the
interests of the foreign entity known as Israel.
Like a window that has opened
on this epic tale, Clifford D. May offered himself to be probed as to his
sentiments with regard to the performance of Donald Trump who served one-term
as President of the United States, and was rejected by the voters when he ran
for a second term. To that end, Clifford May wrote: “Will Biden learn from
Trump and keep making America secure again,” an article that also came under
the subtitle: “Trump recognized threats, and at least began to address them.”
The article was published on December 22, 2020 in The Washington Times. Here is
the most pertinent passage in that article:
“Mr. Trump came into office
with limited knowledge of international relations, and the complex mechanisms
by which policy is formulated and implemented. He did know a thing or two about
deal-making, and he intuitively grasped the logic of 'peace through strength.'
On that basis, he increased defense spending”.
Even though May has said that
Trump instinctively grasped what role the military should play in foreign
policy, he proceeded to give credit to Gen. H.R. McMaster for bringing into the
White House the process that engendered the 2017 National Security Strategy. As
to how or why Trump brought the general into his team remains a mystery even to
Clifford May. In fact, this is how he described the event: “He [Trump] was
either smart or lucky to appoint McMaster...”
This revelation is of enormous
importance because it shows that Donald Trump relies on his instinct as it
speaks to him this minute, subject to change the next. He has no analytical
capability, which causes him to hire and fire people, not based on their
ability to perform, but on the strength of loyalty that would make them put up
with his foibles and pretend to like it.
In time, history will look at
the decisions that Trump has taken while in office, and attribute to each the
method by which it was taken. The estimate at this point is that a third of the
decisions were taken accidentally, a third incidentally, and a third were
calculated to serve his own personal purposes.
Well, Donald Trump came and
went like a flash in the pan. And like they say, “you get the government that
you deserve.” So, this may have been all that America deserved at that time.
True or false, there is no reason for someone like Clifford May to come along
and recommend that the agony be prolonged the way it is suggested in the title
of his article: “Will Biden learn from Trump and keep making America secure
again.”
No country deserves to suffer this much punishment.