What would be the implication if 20-30 million Americans went temporarily insane in a fit of rage?
According to psychologists there are three ways people react in a situation that makes us angry. These are: Passive Aggression, Open Aggression, and Assertive Anger.
The function of all three expressions of anger, is to protect vulnerability and neutralize threat.
In humans, the threat is almost always to the ego.
Open aggression comes from a need to be in control.
Anger is considered a secondary emotion. Typically, one of the primary emotions, like fear or sadness, can be found underneath the anger. Fear includes things like anxiety and worry, and sadness comes from the experience of loss, disappointment or discouragement.
Anger is the most physical of emotions. Angry and resentful people often get into trouble, especially in intimate relationships, without doing anything wrong, as their bodies and facial expressions devalue, demean, and express hostility outside their conscious awareness.
With Open Aggression people have a tendency to lash out in anger and rage, becoming physically or verbally aggressive.
With Open Aggression people have a tendency to lash out in anger and rage, becoming physically or verbally aggressive.
Examples of acting out Open Aggression include fighting, bullying, blackmailing, accusing, shouting, bickering, sarcasm and criticism.
Being around angry and resentful people makes us resentful, even when they say nothing offensive. This is something that politicians who exploit public anger don’t seem to realize. The short-term gain they get from stirring anger will eventually turn against them.Those who live by the angry vote die by it.
Anger and rage are related to each other. Most people do not find any hard difference between the two. Both anger and rage are emotional outbursts. Anger is a feeling or emotion that a person has when being offended or when wronged.
Rage is an extreme expression of anger.
Rage is an extreme expression of anger.
Anger does not have the pinch of rage. Unlike anger, rage is an intricate mix of fear, desperation anger and panic.
Hundreds of Millions of Highly Emotional Americans
“In fact, severe anger is a form of insanity. You are insane whenever you are not in control your behavior. Therefore, when you are angry and out of control, you are temporarily insane”. – Wayne Dyer
Hundreds of Millions of Highly Emotional Americans
In 2016, after an exceptionally hostile primary and Presidential campaign 65,853,514 voted for Hillary Clinton. That is approx. 48% of the popular vote. Trump received nearly 47%.
Both candidates fanned fears and nurtured distrust of the other. As resentment grew for the candidates, so too did it between the voters.
After a contentious Primary and a brutal Presidential campaign, emotions where very high going into the final election.
Many voters were motivated more by negative sentiments, such as fear and distrust, than they were by positive attitudes toward their preferred candidate's political policies and campaign promises.
The attitudes and emotions many people formed of their opposing candidate have remained intact and strengthened since the election.
Since Trump won the election, tens of millions of Democrats have resisted Trump, even going so far as to maintain that Trump is not their President. Tens of millions of Democrats have held out hope that Trump would not serve out his first term. Both candidates fanned fears and nurtured distrust of the other. As resentment grew for the candidates, so too did it between the voters.
After a contentious Primary and a brutal Presidential campaign, emotions where very high going into the final election.
Many voters were motivated more by negative sentiments, such as fear and distrust, than they were by positive attitudes toward their preferred candidate's political policies and campaign promises.
Beyond the Election
There is a subset of voters within both Hillary's and Trump's camps who are fiercely loyal to their candidate and have remained so.The attitudes and emotions many people formed of their opposing candidate have remained intact and strengthened since the election.
But it is beyond that. Tens of millions of Americans STILL BELIEVE the narrative that Hillary and the Clinton machine formulated and built with the Steele dossier and the full cooperation of the mainstream media.
On the Republican side, many are more convinced than ever that the Clintons and the Washington Deep State organized a coup against a Presidential candidate which they perpetuated to this day.
Furthermore, each side believes the media they watch is accurately promoting their narrative of the opposition and that only their preferred media is telling the truth. Neither side is listening and validating the feelings and opinions of the other side.
Throughout the campaign and to this day, both Democrats and Republicans have been sold and bought the view that the opposition candidate is a corrupt politician who belongs in jail.
Where Does This Leave Us?
Hillary was completely correct when she warned during one of the Presidential debates how it would deeply damage America and the process of Democracy if the loser didn't accept the results of the election. She said this with full confidence -- full confidence that she would be the winner.
- To say Hillary has been a sore loser is an gross understatement.
WE HAVE REACHED A TURNING POINT
The situation in America has arrived to a crucial point. One side or the other, Left or Right, is in for a huge disappointment.
The ego's of 50-100+ millions of Americans are entwined with their personal beliefs, both pro & con regarding Trump.
Therefore, the outcome of the following matters will greatly trigger the ego's of many millions of Americans:
- The impeachment process
- Senate hearings into the start of Russian Collusion conspiracy
- US Attorney Durham's criminal investigation
- The 2020 Presidential election
If Trump were to be thrown from office because of impeachment, tens of millions of his supporters on the Right would go into a fit of rage.
By same token, the Senate hearings and US Attorney Durham's criminal investigations could prove that Trump was correct all along and that there was a corrupt effort to destroy his presidency. If so, the reputation of the Democratic party and the mainstream media would be severely damaged. Trump would be assured re-election. In this scenario it will be the Left that is sent into a fit of rage.
It is like our mother used to say when children are playing dangerously rough. "ONE OF YOU IS GOING TO GET HURT!"
One way or the other, the ego's of tens of millions of Americans are on the line and about to be severely threatened!
Where Do We Go From Here?
For nearly a year I have been foreshadowing an ominous period of time ahead by tagging many of my Facebook and blog posts with the phrase "DESTRUCTION and REBIRTH." I have also associated this prediction with the date 0101■2020.Given the way and pace things have been shaping up the last four years, I felt that with the turn of the decade the situation with anger would be acute. That is when the egos of tens of millions Americans would clash to such an extent that rage would rise to unprecedented levels.
When I first started making this prediction I had:
- No way of knowing that we would be going into the New Year with US Attorney John Durham conducting a criminal investigation.
- No way of knowing what the IG Report would actually find.
- No way of knowing that Articles of Impeachment would just be passed by and held up in the House.
- No way of knowing that Senate hearings were going to be just getting underway.
Things are coming to a head - a breaking point. As a result, emotions are heightened. People are feeling extremely vulnerable and our egos are being severally threatened. That is a formula for pitched anger - RAGE.
This dynamic presents America with the most serious question in our lifetime:
What if 20-30 million Americans went temporarily insane in a fit of rage?
My phrase DESTRUCTION and REBIRTH foreshadows what I believe the implications will be.
It is my opinion that rage will lead Americans and it's leaders to transform our systems of government in powerful and historic ways. There will be effects on other aspects of our society as well.
IT'S NOT ALL BAD. IN FACT, IT CAN BE VERY POSITIVE IN THE LONG RUN.
The situation I described above sounds frightening and it is.
People in state of rage are dangerous. So it is best to avoid them. You may even want to take some extra security precautions -- the obvious things. Be smart and avoid or mitigate risk.
In a worst cases, society can become becomes chaotic and less reliable. So it is important be self-reliant so you and your family are less dependent.
Ultimately I have a positive outlook overall. American has a history of coming out of crisis stronger. So while I do believe we are entering a challenging period in our Nation, we can emerge from this better than we have been.
In the meantime, allow me to offer some other recommendations for coping with this change.
1. I believe the times ahead will be very painful. But like childbirth, they will be worth it. And the love we feel for the newborn will wash way the pain. So my first recommendation is that we need to breath our way through it. (Try to stay calm.)
2. My second recommendation is to focus on being a good friend with a kind heart. Listen to and respect others, including those you disagree with.
3. We can all draw advice from the great Rabbi's, Sages and philosophers. For example, Rabbi Eliezer ben Hurcanus, one of the most frequently sited Sages in the Mishna.
(The Mishnah or Mishna is the first major written collection of the Jewish oral traditions known as the "Oral Torah". It is also the first major work of rabbinic literature.)
Rabbi Eliezer wrote ancient rabbinic interpretation of scripture. Rabbi Eliezer says in Pirkei Avot (Wisdom of our Fathers):
“. . . Do not be easy to anger.” (Avot 2:10)
Rabbi Joshua also said in Avot:
🙏STAY CALM🙏
P.S. Please read my next post about why anti-Semitism is different than ordinary hate.
"an evil eye, the evil inclination, and hatred for humankind put a person out of the world."Anger is one of the traits most condemned in Jewish literature. “Someone who gets angry,” we are told, “is like one who worships idols.” "Anger can cause a sage to lose his wisdom, or a person who is destined for greatness to forfeit it."
🙏STAY CALM🙏
P.S. Please read my next post about why anti-Semitism is different than ordinary hate.
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Below are some of the sources for my statements about the psychology regarding anger and rage:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-entitlement/201812/the-function-anger-and-resentment
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-entitlement/201501/anger-and-vulnerability
Below are some of the sources for my statements about the psychology regarding anger and rage:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-entitlement/201812/the-function-anger-and-resentment
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anger-in-the-age-entitlement/201501/anger-and-vulnerability
https://meditativemind.org/root-causes-anger-ego-fear-frustration/
http://www.differencebetween.net/miscellaneous/difference-between-anger-and-rage/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/traversing-the-inner-terrain/201205/is-rage-choice
https://www.chabad.org/therebbe/article_cdo/aid/2349458/jewish/How-to-Deal-with-Anger.htm
