Hope is the drug of the 70 million
The psychodynamic of the addict/codependent dyad is one of the most useful concepts in psychology. The motivations of the addict can be more easily understood than those of the codependent. Addiction is the compulsive involvement, use, and dependence on a substance or activity despite the destruction which such use inflicts upon the mental, physical, and spiritual integrity of the addict. Addiction is a form of self-romanticized madness. As addiction tightens its claws around the neck of the sufferer, self-told tales of justification become more elaborate and grandiose. The gambler picks numbers because he is smarter than the next guy, the alcoholic drinks because she has been through so much. In the clutches of blinding enthrallment to that which is inherently worthless the addict will betray any ideal, lie, steal, break the law, deceive their closest connections.
The codependent is a person who chooses to be partner and enabler in the life of addiction. Addicts need the codependent to maintain their lifestyles; codependents need the addict because they fear freedom and being alone. Codependents maintain an image of normality, stability, and success for the addicts and for themselves. Behind the superficial competence and unrequited caring of the codependent is found a soul whose self-respect is draining away. The codependent lives in a cycle of shame and anger with a partner who keeps the addiction first place in the relationship, and who exploits, betrays and belittles the codependent in order to do that. The codependent clings to a memory of love, a self-deluding pride in being loyal and long-suffering. Above all, the codependent maintains a creed of hope. Hope that the addict will stop using, hope that friends are wrong and the addict can be saved, hope that love will be restored, hope that they will not be alone or lose whatever they believe the addict provides. Hence the psychotherapeutic axiom, “Hope is the drug of the codependent.”
The relationship between the left and right wings of the American people replicates the sickness of the addict-codependent dyad. The leftwing, including Democrats and their vast, incestuous government-corporate sludgelands, are addicted to the drug of hate. They despise the evil, racist America that exists in their addicted imaginations. Their hate addiction started years ago with softer gateway drugs like America is an evil empire, Americans are especially materialistic, America is to blame for slavery. The steadily worsening addiction to hate slipped into full-blown obsessional rage with the Trump nomination and presidency. The leftwing was driven mad because their hate could not control him. Now the left moves like a stumbling, shivering addict looking for one more fix of hate, knowing in his heart it will never feel as good again.
The leftwing prizes their hatred of America because they are also addicted to the belief that they are smarter and more virtuous than the patriotic right. Addiction is madness, and hate is an especially habit-forming stimulant. It provides the leftwing with the cover of moral superiority without calling forth a drop of selfless service to anyone. They gleefully accommodate the corrupted election because it worked against the America they hate. Now, frank insanity causes them to shriek “white supremacist” against any patriot whose courage rattles the cage of their hate. They rant about planetary climate, which boils down to contempt by the affluent against the middle class who must be punished for enjoying the American way of life. The leftwing haters applaud the destruction of the American economy in favor of any given enemy. They live in insensible, servile acceptance of the Sino-American bioweapon virus called COVID because it is doing incalculable damage to our nation. Their doctors are not healers but government Vaxstapo. Their teachers are not teachers but ethnic cleansers from the union-plantation, scrubbing away American history, culture and faith in God. Leftwing minds are so crazed by hate they assume they can destroy this constitutional republic, replace it with socialism and Godless anti-morality, and somehow escape the misery which is already closing in upon that fundamental transformation.
At least 70 million votes were stolen at the last presidential election. Think of the historic struggle for equal voting rights in the US, the wars fought, the lives lost, until the goal of universal citizen suffrage was finally achieved. All of that courageous struggle was wiped away by the debasement of billionaires buying old-fashioned and new-fangled fraud. What did the 70 million do about this monstrous disenfranchisement? Ultimately, nothing that insisted on justice and the rule of law.
But then, right on cue, came the delusional hopes of the codependents for a better future. Here are some of them:
1) Hope that elections will be honest in the future. There’s no such thing as the perfect crime? The theft of the 2020 presidential election, the most devastating organized crime event in US history, was the perfect crime because the criminals escaped any punishment whatsoever. Election fraud is certain to happen again. And again and again. The only thing that can prevent ongoing infrastructural election fraud is for the 70 million to rigorously unite, organize, and commit direct action to get rid of every last crony, every fraudulent paper ballot, and every voting machine that has the software to rig results. That can happen only with unity, organization, direct action, boycotts, strikes, or demonstrations to shut down the current system. When talking heads prattle on with tedious political calculations about the mid-term elections, while ignoring the uncorrected election fraud, they exhibit classic codependency. To prevent election fraud we must first kill delusional hope for a spontaneous cure.
2) Hope that the swamp will be drained. The only way Trump could have drained one stinking drop of the Washington swamp was to have been inaugurated in a football stadium in Texas and to conduct his administration from a hardened facility in Wyoming or maybe Montana. The White House could have been lent to Gold Star families. Quonset huts for the cabinet and the most trusted advisors, rallies and direct messaging of his policies to the American people, no press conferences with the fake news. The swamp will not be drained, the unions will not be driven out of the schools, the press will not stop lying until the 70 million unify, organize, and act. But first we must kill hope for magical cures.
3) Hope the "straight-shooter" John Durham will clean things up. This one is frank psychosis. Durham’s job is to spray a little Febreze in the halls of the FBI to make it fresher for them to continue committing crimes against the American people. What with calling banana-bread baking moms domestic terrorists, and the apparent panoply of FBI crimes committed in the 1/6 swamp sideshow, Durham has thoroughly succeeded at his mission.
The hate-addicted leftwing needs the rightwing to be the grown-ups, pay the bills, run the country, and google their garbage. The 70 million do not need them. Americans are still a courageous people, but the haters are picking us off one by one because although we may be united in thought we are not organized in action. Americans have always been at our greatest when fighting together for a righteous cause. We are ready to recommit our lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to save the Republic. But we must first re-segregate socially and economically, and we must give up paralyzing hope that the hate-addicted left will change.