Psychos, analyzed
In 1955, EC Comics published the first issue of Psychoanalysis. It was part of what they called their “New Direction” in comics. This title, and others in the series, were EC Comics’ answer to critics who felt their comics had no redeeming value. The critics were encouraged by German psychiatrist, Dr. Frederic Wertham. Wertham testified at the 1954 senate subcommittee on juvenile delinquency, where he convinced senators and parents that comics were to blame. The proof was that every delinquent he checked, read comic books. Never mind that the non-delinquents also read comics.
The effects of the hearings wiped out multiple publishers. They could either censor themselves or go out of business. EC decided to save themselves with their New Direction. They succeeded. Not with Psychoanalysis, but with their newest title, MAD, one of the most successful comic magazines ever made. Oddly, both titles represent opposite ends of the same spectrum of sanity. Psychoanalysis represented mental health and healing, while Mad embodied, even encouraged, full-on lunacy. And Madness won.
Wertham and I have a few things in common: we are both interested in comics, we went to the same school (King’s College, London) and we are both doctors, thanks to our respective PhDs. Not only that, we both moved to New York after living in Europe for some time. On that basis, and the fact that I’ve read every issue of Psychoanalysis (all five of them), I think I’m just as qualified to discuss the mental illnesses of people I’ve never met as the people on TV who do the same thing.
This is on my mind because I have some friends who are liberal despite outward signs of sanity. I don’t mean the type of liberal that can be spotted from a mile away: carrying a protest sign, dressed like a unicorn, multi-colored hair, or with a balaclava covering their face. I mean the type who look and even sound normal as long as certain subjects aren’t mentioned.
Mention “President Trump”, “Elon Musk”, “J.D. Vance”, or anything else associated with conservatives, and the afflicted react as if they were hypnotized by the best hypnotist in the world. Suddenly, they become nigh-deranged and willing to commit acts that would cause permanent exile from cannibal tribes in New Guinea. This is especially perplexing with one person I know who purports to be a conservative but who reacts exactly like a liberal to any of their mystic power totems.
The difficulty comes in the form of people who appear to be honest annd fair, but who make no effort to be honest when talking about their trigger subjects. They don’t seem to realize this when they do it, no matter how obvious it is. Every time I hear things like, “Trump is Hitler,” “Musk wasn’t elected President,” or “Trump is a racist,” I feel like I’m watching someone thrown from a burning plane, debris raining all around him, thinking he’s sitting in a warm bathtub at home. How do they not see the things outside their mind in favor of what lurks within?
The latest odd belief among this group is that President Trump wants to be an emperor, not just a king, ala’ Julias Caesar. The proof is that some MAGA supporters are trying to come up with a way to keep Trump on for a third term. The impetus, I think, is that they are afraid of what might happen if anyone else is in charge. We’ve seen what happens and don’t ever want to see it again. It’s like a movie where the vampire has been shot twenty times and the protagonists look and each other and say, “were those the silver bullets?”
Getting Trump a third term isn’t about honoring a great man for his achievements or to show fealty to a conquering hero. It’s because we want to be sure the monster (communism) is dead before we turn the reins over to anyone else. We’ve seen how little other republicans can be trusted. Even our beloved former president Ronald Reagan never accomplished as much as Trump has in his first 30 days.
What it comes down to is that the liberals are deep in the information fog created by our false prophets in the media. Within the fog, left is right, up is down, heaven is hell, and hell is heaven. The way to cure these poor souls is not psychoanalysis or any type of evidenciary argument. The fog must be dispelled. This is what Trump is doing right now.
By closing down USAID, Trump has done the equivalent of draining the water from a pond full of water-breathing parasitic monsters. They cry in pain as their environment becomes uninhabitable for their form of life, but at the same time we see how filthy the water was. USAID money paid for much of the media fog, and we can already see some signs that it is starting to dissipate. Politico missed payroll, BBC warned of shutting down some services, and some liberals are coming out to say thing that couldn’t have occurred to them before.
As much as the continuing stream of lies disturbs me, I think President Trump and his amazing cabinet of all stars are doing exactly what they should be doing. I can’t think of how they could deal with the problem more quickly than they are. Their efforts are gaining momentum and will soon be unstoppable. America will be great again, and then even greater.
We don’t need talk therapy for our ills as a nation, but that is all our elected officials ever gave us: talk. What we need is a chainsaw, and that’s what we have.
Ann, the illegal activities of blue state elected officials, in disregarding Federal Law, will be foregrounded soon enough. Hang in there.
Despite the roar of the chainsaw, it appears there are shadow engines ensuring the psychosis of NY will continue. Is it the Wall Street engine? The Medical Science laboratories across Suffolk and Nassau? Money from somewhere is giving Hochul confidence to defy EO’s on DEI and immigration, defy extradition orders, defy reversal of congestion pricing. Each day, NY state leaders openly plow forward with their socialism agenda. The massive undertaking of cleaning up the federal government is quite the feat. Will there be enough gas in the chainsaw to shred the tentacles of communism spreading from the states bordering the East and West coasts?