Nothing is what it seems; everything’s changed. It’s all about hate and retribution. It’s no longer enough to oppose something; we must now destroy it. There is no middle ground, no compromise. We are the carnage cult of the modern era. One side is the triggered executioner; the other is the cause and the target.
46% of Americans lean toward the Republican Party, and 45% lean toward the Democrat Party, leaving a scant 8% in the Independent column. There are obvious extremes in each, and that’s the point of this exercise. This is almost evenly split politically overall, but it’s the extremes that should concern us. 28% of Democrats are extreme, as are 31% of Republicans; again, a nearly even split, putting 59% on the political fringes and leaving 41% in the moderate zone. But are these the extremist partisans causing this political tension? [data]
The Left claims their opposition is Hitler, a Nazi, a Fascist, Gestapo, Jackbooted Thugs, a threat to democracy.
Everything his administration does will destroy the American way of life. They advocate violent opposition to everything he does because their side has all the correct answers.
The Right, on the other hand, claims their opposition is Socialists, Marxists, Communists, the Loonie Left, and hell-bent on turning America into another failed Communist Gulag. For the record, history bears out that Communism only works under a total authoritarian regime and eventually fails in the end. Estimates put the cost at 85 to 100 million human lives in the 20th Century.
Since these sides oppose each other, revile each other, hate each other, is there space for compromise, the middle ground? Where does that leave the rest of the republic? You know, the 41% in the middle… most voters who occupy the middle ground between extremists on the Right and on the Left. Who represents them?
If the Mainstream Media Complex is correct, the country is split along partisan political lines, meaning that there are only two ways to go: Left or Right. So, I’ll ask again, what about the 41% in the middle? You know, those who have a more moderate view? Most of the country…
This alignment appears to indicate that there are only two real choices: Left or Right! But what about the centrists who favor what’s beneficial for the republic instead of partisan political positions?
A psychiatrist recently mentioned Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) on TV, explaining that it’s reached problematic proportions in many communities, and some practitioners report their growing concerns. TDS seems to be growing in their communities, and counselors are concerned about this increasing problem.
AI defines TDS as a pejorative satirical political term used to criticize what many Trump supporters view as an extreme, irrational, or obsessive adverse reaction to President Donald Trump’s statements, policies, and behavior. The term is primarily used by political commentators, Trump supporters, and Trump himself to label opponents whom they feel are consumed by their antipathy toward him to the point that it impairs their judgment and prevents objective criticism. The phrase was coined by political commentator Charles Krauthammer in 2003 to describe critics of President George W. Bush (“Bush Derangement Syndrome”). He defined it as the “acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal persons that is in reaction to the policies… nay, the very existence of George W. Bush“.
This is basically what the psychiatrist said on TV. Maybe he uses AI in his practice. It makes me wonder why anyone would pay an average $150 per session when AI will tell you the same thing on your Portable Altar of Enlightenment.
There you have it – the internet has 1,340,000 pages and sites dedicated to all of TDS’s symptoms and nuances; proof of the power of the Mainstream Media Complex… Could all this divisiveness be their fault? Did they instigate this animus?
Humans communicate in some interesting ways, and since the preeminent way we learn is visually, we are subjected to a barrage of bullshit from wall-sized screens to the handheld devices grafted to the ends of our arms. We consume this information from an estimated 18 billion mobile communication devices worldwide, and 386 million are in America. As a point of reference, there are 8 billion people worldwide and 342 million in America. Yes, these numbers are correct; there really are more cellular communication devices than people in America and worldwide.
I am sitting in front of 5 screens right now, connected to two separate computers, and a cell phone bridging them. I’m not bragging; it’s how I work, it’s my office. I operate from two distinct systems: one for my business and the other for personal use. It keeps my accountant happy…
I consider this info-inundation programming, indoctrination, brainwashing by the FUD merchants. These are the partisan political leaders of this country who have mastered the techniques to alter our views of reality. It’s so prevalent that we don’t know the truth about anything. So, regardless of what you call the intentional alteration of how and what people think, it’s wrong on every level. Yet, it’s a fact in modern America; our thinking is being impacted by every tool imaginable and available to the power-hungry demagogues and served up for our consumption every moment of every day.
Can you think of a better or more effective way to indoctrinate people than by using these Portable Alters of Enlightenment… the plastic data screen, the item that is rarely out of reach? When we’re not tethered to this portable device, we’re parked in front of an extra-large TV or computer screen, so regardless of where you are and what you’re doing, you are subjected to this bullshit barrage by the Mainstream Media Complex. We are drowning in data that someone invents and then interprets for us. How amazingly convenient for the FUD merchants.
Let’s go back a few articles and recap Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD).
AI explains that ‘FUD describes a propaganda or disinformation strategy used to influence perception and behavior by disseminating negative or misleading information. The goal of FUD is often to prompt people to make impulsive, emotion-driven decisions, such as selling investments or avoiding a competitor’s product. Commonly used in technology and marketing to dissuade a buyer from using competing products.
The use of FEAR as a motivator drives individuals to avoid danger, pain, or negative consequences. It can be effective in the short term by triggering a response that instigates action, such as studying to avoid failing a test, but it can lead to stress, anxiety, and a decline in performance or creativity over time if relied on too heavily, or inspiring hatred for someone likened to a repugnant historical figure.’
Think about the rhetoric and hyperbole careening across all of the world’s data channels. We’re so awash in these waves of information that we’re unable to discern fact from fiction. That, dear friends, is intentional. If we knew what was really going on, we would stop it immediately, but again, that’s the idea, their goal, and the means to their ends.
Why do you suppose they want this all kept a secret?
I referenced the world’s data channels, since AI accesses the massive amount of data available worldwide, it scans, collects, grooms, and organizes it for presentation. The estimate exceeds 175 zettabytes of data – about 30 billion 4K movies; it would take 1.8 billion years to download this amount of data at normal access speeds.
I’ve written several articles on FUD, and in the end, it all amounts to the same thing. We’re being controlled. First, it was for political elections, then it was agendas and platforms, then it was about consensus to fight wars, then it was about starting wars, then it was shutting down the country and the world to fight a pandemic that we created in a Wuhan China Biolab, now we’re fighting disparate wars on multiple fronts that have a single purpose and goal: To transfer power to an elite group of people; and our Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt are the means to that end.
Fear compels people to act to avoid discomfort, pain, or threats. It’s a primal instinct linked to survival that prompts us to avoid pain, injury, and danger.
Fear causes behavioral changes, prompting people to modify their habits by invoking imagery of that fear. Think of anti-drunk driving or anti-smoking cancer campaign ads.
Fear induces discomfort, causing people to naturally move away from that stimulus toward a more comfortable place or idea. Think of the flashing red light indicating danger.
Threats of becoming an example are used to cause fear.
Consider the images and reports of Nazi Germany and the horrific portrait it paints. Millions of people were captured and sent to extermination camps or put in forced labor situations as slaves, beaten and tortured for fun and profit. That’s the image they sell with only a few well-chosen words like Nazi, Hitler, Gestapo, Fascist, and Holocaust.
Fear can lead you to compromise your ethics and morals by disrupting rational thought and fostering a narrow, self-centered mindset, triggering the ‘protect and defend’ response, prioritizing self-interest over broader ethical considerations. It impairs decision-making, promotes self-interest, leading to impulsive and unethical decisions, and compromises your integrity.
Fear is the ultimate motivation to do anything and everything, without exception. Most of us know that killing another human being is wrong, but fear makes us suppress that moral realization and take that life. Hate can evoke the same reaction under the right circumstances.
Anything is possible when it can be rationalized and justified. We seem to have an unlimited capacity to ignore propriety and conscience, and, given the current partisan political climate, we do so with little thought for the consequences. And speaking of consequences, there are very few of those in most FUD situations, leading me to question the underlying and mitigating circumstances that seem to allow and exacerbate these treasonous acts against our Constitution.
I concede to the ultimate rationalizer – The Ends Justify the Means. This is the overarching justification in politics and governments today. The action or plan is compelling when it’s legally questionable; it’s the panacea for every situation and, coupled with the race card, excuses or justifies everything. We can say the most hateful thing, make the most baseless accusation, tell the most heinous lie, even commit murder and have it excused, even expunged. It freezes the needle on the moral compass and even absolves the most egregious transgression or sin.
Any statement preceded by the phrase: As a black woman, or black man in Congress, I – provides a license to say or claim anything with impunity. I am appalled by the blatant racism exhibited in this attitude, and no one has the intestinal fortitude (balls) to challenge it for fear of the obvious repercussions. Therein is the power of fear. We turn away from an obvious wrong, tacitly approving it. Avoidance is approval in this case, because no one wants to be called a racist. QED – the power of FUD and the Race Card.
Millions of viewers watch the streams of data on their omnipresent Alters of Enlightenment – the ubiquitous portable cellular device, as our republic burns, and the Mainstream Media Complex offers carefully curated and biased narrations of the events and who’s to blame. The stream is unending, and in excruciating detail – viewer discretion is advised seems to draw us nearer, piquing our interest, and compelling us to engage, maybe not physically, but mentally to be sure.
We watch, transfixed, as occupants in this country break every imaginable law without repercussion. They’re violently aggressive, hateful, foul-mouthed, and angry, yet no one seems interested in stopping the mayhem. These precisely selected images, supported by a crafty narrative, illustrate, and define the stories that convey the corporate owners’ sentiment and partisan political posture.
I watched a few hours of this play out last night. It struck me that the ambivalence of the local governments, along with the complicity of the Mainstream Media’s partnership with the Left, led me to the conclusion that the Left is looking to start a civil war and to implicate the Right.
This is the ultimate power play by the Left – The Democrat-Socialists. Everything they do, say, and support is driving America toward a civil war… just as they did in April of 1861. The sides are politically aligned the same and for basically the same reasons.
The Left is goading the Right into fights about foolish interpretations of Constitutional concepts, using Left-leaning courts to stall progress or tie up proceedings in technicalities requiring more court proceedings and more time. All the while, working out new and better ways to engage them in public battles being replayed ad nauseam by the Mainstream Media Complex, with the accompanying sympathetic Left-Leaning narration. The Democrat-Socialist government’s support for these invaders as potential supporters and voters. The Left insists that Bigger Government is the answer to America’s problems.
The North, the Republican Party, opposed the illegal alien invasion, the slavery of our times, and wants an efficient government, a self-sufficient base working toward a stronger, well-managed, and self-regulating republic where contribution, assimilation, and citizenship are valued. They envision a republic based on earned value, where effort determines your prominence. The government is there to help, not to provide.
The South, the Democrat-Socialists proposed the Affordable Care Act, Welfare, Medicaid, and citizens’ rights, to encourage these invaders to vote for the Democrat-Socialist candidates who championed their rights. Their ideal is Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity (DIE) for simply being in this country. The government will be the source of everything one needs. It’s their goal to transform this republic into a model Communist Society. From each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs.
There are partisan enclaves throughout the republic: Leftists on the coasts, and Right in the heartland. The initial skirmishes are in Left-leaning sanctuary cities, where concentrations of Illegal Invaders are stashed to bolster the House of Representatives seat count, thus giving them majority control.
The Right, to enforce existing laws, works diligently to provide a safe and sustainable legal environment for its citizens, free of crime, where the law of the land is enforced equitably, and in an effort to provide this for all American citizens, intends to root out those who’ve violated our rules and remove them from this country.
The victims in this contention are the people of this republic, who unwittingly fund this partisan political battle with our taxes, just as we did in 1861, and Congress, the opposite of progress, orchestrates these battles and passes funding extensions to support them.
I pray that I’m wrong. That I misread the signs and intentions of these miscreants. But why else would one side support the importation of 20 million unvetted immigrants, condone Muslim enclaves, and Sharia Law in American cities?
Why would they encourage Socialist, Marxist, Communist mayors, and legislators in our government?
Why would they allow criminals and repeat offenders to terrorize our major cities and towns?
Why would the law-abiding citizens be forced to cower as foreign terror gangs rule our streets?
Why would anyone fight so ferociously to protect street violence and criminals against lawful prosecution?
And why would one of the partisan political parties support these efforts in clear violation of the US Constitution and our laws?
The only possible reason is to foment, instigate, and provoke civil war.
The dickens you say…
For the Amalgamated Heavy
November 25, 2025
~ the Author ~
Charles R. Dickens Was Born in 1951, Is a Veteran of the Vietnam War, for Which He Volunteered, and the Great-Great Grandson of the Noted Author, Whose Name He Shares.
He Is a Fiercely Proud American, Who Still Believes This Is the Greatest Country on the Planet, With Which We’ve Lost Control and Certainly Our Direction. He Grew Up in Moderate Financial Surrounding; We’re Not Rich by Any Stretch, but Didn’t Go Hungry – His Incredibly Hard Working Father Saw to That. As Most From That Era, He Learned About Life From His Father, Whose Story Would Take Too Long to Tell, Other Than to Say That, He Is Also a Fiercely Proud American; A WWII and Korean War, Veteran Marine.
Charlie Was Educated in the Parochial System Which, Demanded That You Actually Learn Something, and Have Capability to Retain It Before You Advance. He Attended Several Universities in Pursuit of a Bachelor’s Degree, and Chased the Goose Further to a Master’s, and Has Retained Some Very Definite Ideas About Education in This Country.
in Addition, Charlie Is a Retired Blues Guitar and Vocalist – a Musician. This Was His Therapy Career. Nothing Brings Him as Much Joy as Playing Music, and He Wishes That He Could Make a Living at It… but Alas… Life Goes on!