On May 14, 2018 I began a blog post like this:
Congressional Republicans Show Signs of Battered Wife Syndrome
Medical News Today says battered women suffer from PTSD but then adds they suffer their own special symptoms as well.In addition to PTSD, people with battered woman syndrome show symptoms that may be confusing to outsiders.
Those include:
- learned helplessness
- refusing to leave the relationship
- believing that the abuser is powerful or knows everything
- idealizing the abuser following a cycle of abuse
- believing they deserve the abuse
I then went on to look at each of these symptoms and relate them to Congressional GOP. (You can see the whole post at the link above.)
Today, Anonymous left this comment:
"Reporting back from the future: GOP's battered wife syndrome is in full force even after Trump has left office. So SAD!"
So sad, indeed. But the Democrats have laid out such a powerful, logical, and easy to understand case for Trump's treachery. And it's all there in video - the presentations of the House team and the embedded video they used as evidence.
Even if the Republicans can't see it, or are too paralyzed to break rank, everyone else can see it. Historians have never had it so easy. And their students have never had it so compelling.
Yes. So sad. So many are not ready to wake up. And they are the ones quick to point to their god/Jesus/savior/religion/freedom. Not ironic at all.
ReplyDeleteForgot to add:
ReplyDelete"Ah, that list also perfectly describes Christianity's cult of toxic shame".
Once locked inside the fixed shame loop, you're all of a sudden bound as a sinner, bound as a tither, etc. Beliefs are chosen, and they are very often incorrect beliefs having nothing to do with anything except voluntary enslavement. See also alcoholics anonymous (" you're sick, you never heal!").