July 13, 2023

A severe mental and emotional breakdown on a mass scale is taking place.  Or, as my closest friend recently put it, “America is going insane.”  The issues we face are not only those about which reasonable people might disagree, but delusional concerns lacking a basis in reality.

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The world-renowned Cleveland Clinic defines delusional disorder as “a type of psychotic disorder.”  People with this disorder:

…often continue to socialize and function well, apart from the subject of their delusion…. This is unlike people with other psychotic disorders who might also have delusions…[nevertheless] people with delusional disorder might become so preoccupied with their delusions that their lives are disrupted.

This article will look at three symptoms of delusional disorder in light of certain social and political distresses that currently afflict the USA.

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Feelings of being exploited. The feeling of being exploited has reached pandemic proportions in the USA.  Vast numbers of people believe they are exploited by the police, by white people, by Christians, by “the system,” by men, by Wall Street, by the U.S.A., by corporations, etc. etc. There has been a significant cultural shift away from seeing America as the distinctive land of opportunity in a corrupt, poverty-stricken, and cruelly corrupt world to seeing the U.S.A. as itself the leader of this world corruption and as the instigator of the world’s major problems. 

Clearly ignored by these deluded persons is that tens upon tens of millions of people or all races and nationalities have made the difficult transition to life in the USA after immigrating and been blessed by the hardships they endured culturally in making that transition. They have enjoyed prosperity, freedom, rights, acceptance, and yes, even love, as a result of that transition.  Their educational and interpersonal horizons have become wider as they lived in a country of liberty and law, moreover a land founded upon Judeo-Christian morality despite law breakers, immoral people, and immoral decisions made in our midst.

History indicates the USA has been more welcoming to all peoples in the world than any other country ever has been.   

Persistently holding grudges:  The inability to let go of longstanding resentments is another symptom of the delusional disorder.  The great narrative of Jacob’s son, Joseph, found in the Bible in the book of Genesis should be the model for all longstanding familial and socio-political disputes. In that narrative, Jacob’s eleven sons were jealous of their brother Joseph, who, it seemed to them, was favored by their father.  The brothers sold Joseph into slavery instead of killing him, and those who took Joseph in turn sold him as a house slave to a man named Potiphar who had Joseph as a house slave in Egypt. Joseph was subsequently accused of making advances towards his master’s wife, and even though he had not hit on her, Joseph was put in prison.

Because of his gift for interpreting dreams, he came to Pharoah’s attention, and rose to a top administrative post.  Later, there was starvation in the land of Canaan where his brothers and father lived, and they came to Egypt to get food.  Joseph recognized them before they recognized him, but when his identity came out, they were afraid of him – that he would take vengeance upon him for their wicked treatment of him. But Joseph said, “What you did you meant for evil, but God meant it for good.”  They had sold him into slavery to express their hostility, but Almighty God used it to eventually bless Joseph in the Egyptian context, and he in turn was able to bless his brothers and his father in a time of need.

This attitude of forgiveness and personal magnanimity is something the deluded cultural Marxists and ever-angry and benighted BLM and DEI complainants cannot grasp… and do not want to grasp. They are mired in their resentments.  The majority of the African American people had ancestors who were treated harshly.  Yet, despite their blood, sweat, and tears – or even because of these – their descendants are living in a prosperous land of opportunity that they never could have known were they still living in Africa.  Further, even on this soil, unlike any other event in history, 300,000 white soldiers fighting for the Union armies gave their lives to emancipate the black slaves in the Confederate States (and a small number of those slaves were held as slaves by blacks as well as whites).  Slavery was not right, but the deaths and pain of the wounded whites attest to the uniqueness of the American ideals and the commitment to equality of opportunity, not equity where outcomes are pre-established by fallen humanity.