The Liberal Heart that Hates First
Todd Hayen
I know I’m on the right side of the side of the fence with most of this crap we are experiencing is because every time I drop a verifiable, ironclad fact that punctures one of the “other side’s” sacred lies, I get a verbal Molotov cocktail lobbed at me.
Not a reasoned debate, not a “let’s check the data,” but a personal attack—as if I’ve just spat on their dead cat’s grave. This isn’t about opinions; it’s about truths so solid you could build a house on them. When liberals respond with venom instead of logic, it’s proof their thinking’s lost in the weeds, while mine’s on the straight and narrow.
I have mentioned this story before, but it deserves repetition.
On social media, one fine day, I encountered a posting by a very dear friend railing against dear old Trump for allegedly cancelling a gay choir performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, after strong-arming his way into the chairmanship of its board. My friend cast Trump as a bigoted overlord, choking out artistic freedom with his tiny hands. Skeptical, I did some digging. Lo and behold, a CNN article—hardly a Trump fan club newsletter—revealed the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington DC, performance, A Peacock Among Pigeons, was cancelled before Trump became chairman on February 12, 2025. The decision, tied to budget cuts and scheduling conflicts, had zero to do with him, as the Kennedy Center itself confirmed.
So, I politely corrected my friend, linking the article for good measure. His response? He unfriended me, declaring he wanted nothing to do with someone defending “satan incarnate.”
Well, excuse me!
I didn’t defend Trump—I just waved a fact in his face. But facts are kryptonite when the liberal heart hates first. This hate slices through truth like the proverbial hot knife cuts through butter.
What is this hate? Where does it come from? What triggers it, and why is it a raging inferno among today’s liberals when it comes to Trump? And most importantly, what can we do about it?
Carl Jung, the Swiss psychologist who mapped the murky depths of the human psyche, offers a lens to decode this lunacy. He argued we all have a shadow—the dark, repressed corners of our minds where we shove traits we’re too ashamed to face. Aggression, hypocrisy, fear of chaos, or intolerance fester there, denied by our polished, conscious selves. When we can’t stomach these flaws, we project them onto others, turning them into scapegoats for our inner mess. For liberals, who wear their compassion, intellectualism, and inclusivity like a merit badge, Trump is the ultimate shadow screen—a larger-than-life figure onto whom they can dump their disowned demons.
Why Trump? He’s a walking middle finger to their values: brash, unfiltered, and defiantly individualistic. Jung would call him an archetypal “Trickster” or “Shadow King,” a disruptive force who exposes societal contradictions. Liberals pride themselves on diplomacy, yet their shadow harbors aggression—think of the vitriol in their protests or X posts. They project this onto Trump, branding him a “bully” while ignoring their own venom. They champion rationality but fear chaos, and Trump’s unpredictable style—tweeting like a drunk uncle at a wedding—becomes a lightning rod for that dread. They tout moral superiority but dodge their own hypocrisies, like preaching equality while dismissing rural voters as backward. Trump’s existence forces liberals to glimpse their shadow, and they hate him for holding up that mirror.
Take another example: liberals raged when Trump, as Kennedy Center chairman, ousted Biden appointees like David Rubenstein. They framed it as a power grab, proof of his authoritarian streak. But dig deeper, and it’s standard procedure for a new chairman to reshape the board. The projection? Liberals, who often control cultural institutions, fear losing their grip and project their own power-hunger onto Trump, painting him as the tyrant they secretly worry they could become.
What ignites this projection? First, fear. Trump’s rise—and his staying power—threatens the liberal dream of a progressive utopia. His populism, distrust of institutions, and appeal to the “forgotten” shake the foundations of their worldview. Jung said threats amplify projection, as groups externalize anxiety onto an “enemy.” Trump, with his MAGA hats and Truth Social megaphone, becomes the bogeyman for their fears of cultural regression or democratic collapse. My friend’s meltdown over the Kennedy Center myth wasn’t just about a choir—it was about Trump as a symbol of everything he dreads.
Second, identity. Liberals cling to a persona of empathy and enlightenment, but their shadow hides intolerance and elitism. Admitting this would shatter their self-image, so they project it onto Trump, making him the sole source of division. My friend didn’t just reject my fact—he rejected me, because questioning his narrative threatened his identity as a “good” liberal. To him, I was aiding the enemy, even though I was just pointing to a CNN article.
Third, mob mentality. Jung warned that projections turn vicious in groups, fed by shared outrage and echo chambers. Liberal media, X influencers, and coastal cliques amplify Trump as a cartoon villain—fascist, narcissist, existential threat. This creates a feedback loop where hating Trump becomes a social currency. My friend wasn’t acting alone; he was swept up in a cultural tide where Trump-hate is a virtue signal. One stray fact from me was enough to brand me a heretic, because groupthink trumps truth.
Why is this hate a five-alarm fire among liberals today? We’re in a societal pressure cooker. Inflation, geopolitical tremors, and cultural fractures have everyone on edge. Liberals, once smug in their cultural dominance, feel besieged by populism and skepticism of their sacred cows—think legacy media or academia. Trump, as the poster child for this rebellion, absorbs their rage. His Kennedy Center takeover, however routine, stokes fears of losing cultural turf. Even when he didn’t cancel the gay choir, the myth persists because it fits the projection: Trump as the enemy of their values.
Jung would say this ferocity stems from a collective failure of individuation—the process of integrating the shadow for psychological wholeness. Liberals, like most of us, dodge this grueling work. It’s easier to demonize Trump than to admit their own flaws: dismissing his supporters as “deplorables” while claiming inclusivity, or pushing policies that sound noble but screw over the working class. The deeper the denial, the hotter the hate, and Trump’s polarizing presence makes him a magnet for it. His every move—tweeting about “fake news,” shaking up institutions, or even just existing—fuels the projection, because he embodies what liberals refuse to see in themselves.
So, how do the liberals douse this fire? Jung’s prescription is brutal but clear: face the shadow. Liberals need to own their aggression, hypocrisy, and fear instead of dumping them on Trump. This means questioning their narratives, talking to Trump’s supporters—not as “cultists” but as people—and admitting their role in polarization. My friend could’ve said, “Huh, maybe I got that wrong,” and we’d still be friends. Instead, he chose hate over truth, a snapshot of the broader disease.
For us shrews, the mission is to keep jabbing at these projections with facts, even if it earns us digital guillotines. We can’t force liberals to integrate their shadows, but we can plant seeds of doubt. Call out the lies—like the Kennedy Center fable—with calm, relentless precision. Share the CNN link, the NBC report, the primary source. Stay unshaken when the hate rolls in, because it’s just their shadow screaming. And don’t take it personally—it’s not about you; it’s about their inner chaos.
But let’s not kid ourselves: this isn’t just a liberal problem. We all project, and conservatives have their own shadows to wrestle. The difference is, right now, the liberal heart’s hate is louder, shriller, and more unhinged. It’s a cultural force, tearing through friendships, families, and reason itself. Jung would urge us to rise above, to seek truth over tribe, and to start with ourselves. If we can’t look in the mirror, we’re no better than the mob.
This liberal heart that hates first isn’t just a quirk—it’s a psychological prison. By projecting their shadow onto Trump, liberals dodge the mirror and fuel a cycle of division that’s tearing us apart.
Jung would demand better: look inward, own your darkness, and choose truth over comfort. I would like to think that for me, every unfriending, every hissed insult, is thought of as a badge of honour. It means I’m hitting a nerve, exposing a lie, and standing for something bigger than their tantrums. The truth doesn’t care about their feelings, or mine. It just is. And I’ll keep waving it like a flag, no matter how loud they scream.
Todd Hayen PhD is a registered psychotherapist practicing in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He holds a PhD in depth psychotherapy and an MA in Consciousness Studies. He specializes in Jungian, archetypal, psychology. Todd also writes for his own substack, which you can read here
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Thanks for writing this. It’s nice to read facts being facts.
If I may; Just now reading a book by one Selena O’Grady, titled, “In the Name of God”. If anyone is interested in gaining a better understanding of out current predicament, I would recommend it. This book deals with the history of Christian and Muslim intolerance. Why is this history relevant today? Well, just read it and weep. We have scarcely moved beyond the horrors of yore, as a collective, and reading the signs in the western erstwhile democracies, another Thirty Year War may be ahead. The good news; 5 years in the war have already been and gone, largely unnoticed by the electorates in the West.
Who loves to hate must hate to love..
The true nature of hate is hurt or victimhood set by grievance to attack now or later – as a validation and vindication set by vengeance for a self-specialness given priority over truth.
There are some signs of life in the comments here.
But the signal is overmasked by noise.
Hurt uncovered or pain – is conflict.
As long as the cause of self-conflict is projected OUT and away from a separate sense of self-in-grievance, will the ‘shadow entities’ of such grievance persist as the experience of being under attack and thus fully justified in countermeasures.
Hate is thus crowned as protector of a weak broken love, that is both impotent and treacherous and thus demanding of containing and controlling by substitution.
Gaslighting or guilting, runs the use of masked fear as a basis for sacrifice to mind control as saviour or solution set in the frame of your own ‘masking strategy of ‘survival’ within the masking lie of limited giving, limited truth’.
Rules+filters operate the lens of the mind – not the reality of which a limited distortion is mis-taken as an inherited identity-complex.
Today’s vegan, green, sandal-wearing, tech-savvy, latte-sipping U-40s, who like to think of themselves as the modern-day equivalent of the hippy are actually quite authoritarian, government power-loving censoring intolerants. A few words with one of them will quickly reveal that “live and let live”, peace and “question authority” are long dead
Something bad happens when people go to DC. I cannot understand it myself, but it seems as if some sort of evil spirit sucks out their souls. No one gets their original plans accomplished and no one gets out alive.
Was Your friend a physical friend ? part of the problem here ( and its not just liberals who cant have a rational discussion without blowing a fuse) part of the problem has to do with the very essence of social Media it seems designed to divide and bring out the worst in people , encouraging thin and facile unxwrstandings and definitions of what friendship actually is.
A Friend is not.just Someone who likes You on social Media, a Friend is someone You trust a confidant .. someone wholl help You in a jam.
Im neither Liberal or Conservative , those labels need to be ditched permanently , Parliamentary Politricks arent going to help us both major factions represent the interests of the Same people.. We need to help one Another.
I cant believe , someone as insightful as You Todd doesnt see through a puppet like Donald Trump .. oh sure He’s amusing the first couple of times .. but He is a Liar, a Murderer and a Thief like his opponents.. a Trickster? .. How about a self interested narcissist who has been tasked with sewing Chaos !..
WE need to help ourselves , we need to look beyond facile political labels , see the pupeteers behind the veil , understand the manufactured top down false dialectic ..
#Sowing
Where in the article does Hayen defend Trump? Both Trump and the Blue-Anons can be wrong at the same time, you know.
Good point Seamus , We see and hear what We wish eh??.. cheers
Thumbs up to Todd. Not because you are an idol, but because its just the way it is. Period!
The article is not about Trump. The liberals are just an old label, they don’t even know what is their name today. Assuming their heart is hating first, does anyone believe that they will change, in face of any arguments? Waving flags at them is good but it will not bring anything but more division. The question is, who benefits from this division ? Who brought this division upon us, first with covi, then with the elections (conveniently rigged in many parts of the world) and so on ? Do we want our friends and families back, even if they have different views ? It is not only a division, it is a radical division and I don’t know how, when or more important if it will be mended.
Liberals call themselves “Moderates” now a days. But this can change tomorrow after the wind cock.
For a while, they were test-marketing the label ‘Progressives,’ but I guess that flopped.
hlo
A question to all idolaters of the orange-one:
Please tell me one single virtue (in Aristotelian sense) the orange-one possess?
He’s funny.
Irrelevant, not a virtue.
Your initial question itself is irrelevant. The POTUS is nothing but a figurehead, an actor. Trump’s first term, Biden and now Trump’s reversal on all but the most inconsequential of campaign promises clearly demonstrate that – none of them are “in charge”.
“The POTUS is nothing but a figurehead….”
Agree, I said below that the orange one is the embodiment of Zaphod Beeblebrox.
But that doesn’t make my question irrelevant. Leaders should be virtuous persons….yeah, in some better world….but we want better world.
Hetero, he likes women. He changed the fokking liberal gender confusion from 20 genders to 2 only genders in America, man and woman. By law, Executive Order.
He banned the by Liberals introduced chemical/biological possibility of changing children’s gender by castrate.
Yes he is probably the Big Bankers Global guy too, but preferable to the bunch of sissies who are resting inside and outside the US Congress. Done!
No more questions Your Honour.
The worst henchmen in history probably did some good for the people, too. I want to say that is necessary to observe the whole picture to make a good judgment.
Sure. But we need to breath and pause in between. At least Trump deliver this from time to time.
Off course the intellectuals dont like Trump, as Trump is a self made man with dirt on his hands from working a long way from the universities..
Yea, yea, rationalizations are always helpful when good argument is missing.
A rhetorical question: are you able to see when he delivers something bad (he did already)?
We cannot change the way in which people construct their realities. It’s not just the foundation their reality is constructed from; it is the soil it is built on. Call it their world view if you like.
Good riddance he sounds mental!. Or stupid .Mr Hayden you’re well rid.
Satan is a big fat lie, so you certainly didn’t defend Satan. On the other hand, Trump may, after all, be an embodiment of Satan: “The similarity between America today and Nazi Germany in the 1940’s is fundamental – many Americans believe that a category of humans have no rights. The genocide and the downfall of America appear unavoidable. “There have been many civilizations. They have covered the world. And all of them disappeared when love disappeared out of them.” – Osho, loose citation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0niuiBzK5Vw&ab_channel=MSNBC Canadian citizen describes her nightmare 12 day ICE detention th.mp4 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/canadian-detained-us-border-1.7483021 B.C. woman held in detention for 11 days after trying to enter U.S. to be released, father says _ CBC News.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=genbS2W9WyQ&ab_channel=ParkrosePermaculture America 2025 or Germany 1943 – YouTube.webm” https://mewe.com/post/show/683c0896d459743b46ba5b54
Liberals, like everything else in this inverted world, needs quotation marks – there’s virtually nothing in a modern “liberal” that a C19th liberal would recognise. The transformation started in the 1880s with the gradual re-definition of liberty from what was dismissed as ‘negative liberty’ (i.e. leave me the fuck alone) to ‘positive liberty’ (i.e. egalitarianism masquerading as liberty). This is not to say there aren’t also massive problems with C19th and earlier liberalism – especially the issue of “free from what?” (they presented it as freedom from tyrants but obfuscated that the ultimate tyrant they had in their crosshairs was God – or Nature – who in their Gnostic worldview was the evil demiurge and had created materiality as a prison).
Jung really isn’t the answer to anything. Try ‘The Jung Cult’ by Richard Noll.
Anyway, here’s another marker of where “liberals” have got us:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/31/uk-plans-to-build-six-weapons-factories-to-bolster-military-readiness
This is of course not their own aggression but a reluctant defensive move brought on by their sophisticated understanding of how the world really works….
Keeping an open mind about absolutely everything is difficult perhaps because we’re not taught it at an early age (I wonder why). Later in life some of us catch on. I often think of the swimming baths in my home town. At the shallow end there was a bar which all the young children held onto for dear life afraid to let go of what they knew. If you try to pry their hands off the bar, understandably, they’ll lash out at you; if you let go the bar and swim away, eventually they might follow. It reminds me too of sage words from Mahatma Gandhi. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
Your argument is based on a reaction to your ” deep dive fact check” which your liberal friend did not do and reacted to an MSM article about Trump Gay choir .
Because it is so true and important, it worth repeating !
Doctor Factcheck.
Your not the same right side of the side of the fence Doctor who called RFK and Dr Robert Malone and Peter McCullough as luminaries. (Ow yes you did)
and believed the MSM+ story of Cancer Kate getting TV cancer. YES you did.
Your quote
So, I politely corrected my friend , linking the article for good measure (nothing sells solid truth than an msms counter article LOL). His response? He unfriended me, declaring he wanted nothing to do with someone defending “satan incarnate.”
This site bans people, so your in the same league as your liberal friend who blocked you.
Todd, BELIEVES IN THE staged fake contrived manufactured TV SHOW CALLED msm plus AND THE Royals…!!! and MSM+ fake heros like RFK and Dr Robert Malone and Peter McCullough and whilst on the subject you do lick trump ass as a lesser of the 2 evils.
like you said, Doctor factcheck. Because it is so true and important and worth repeating !
I thought I recommend you.
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As someone who has friends on both “sides” I always find a perverse amusement in their reactions to me pointing out inconsistencies in their arguments. If I do it on the right, they call me a bleeding heart liberal, if on the left I’m a right wing extremist. So, it is that this is exactly as the puppeteers want it. Reason and civil debate are a thing of the past. They want you to pick a side and double down when challenged with pesky thinking. As a person in my 60’s I can tell you that it was not always like this.
My life story, too.
Ideology. Yuri Bezmenov, Ideological subversion MSM techniques.
With all our failures also in the past, we at least knew what was up and what was down and we had at that time, with all the time and its failures too, a moral compass knowing at least what was bad and what was good.
Everything in politics is scripted in order to emotionally control & steer the population into opposing factions.
These people, who pretend to be ‘leaders’, are really just compromised actors who must maintain kayfabe.
Criticizing one of the factions misses the point completely, it’s all a complete deception.
Weimar Germany was the most liberal of any government in Europe at the time. It was Big Finance*, Big Business* and German Liberals that brought the Nazi’s to power. The socialists and communists were the first the Nazi’s arrested once they came to power (and sent to concentration camps).
Not just the German ruling class, but British and American (On the US side: Morgan (Chase bank), Rockefeller (oil and banking) and Ford and sundry others).
The Reichstag was put on fire on February 27, 1933 by Communists, why Hitler, as a responsible President for the United States, ordered the arrest of anyone with ties to the Communist Party. :-D. First They Came – Wikipedia .
The Reichstag fire was a false-flag event. A member of the (Dutch) communist party was accused and convicted in a kangaroo court. (Also, acts of terrorism by individual actors is not characteristic of communists – it is of anarchists – but the Nazi’s only organized opposition were the German communists.) But if you don’t buy that, ask yourself the question cui bono? It certainly wasn’t the communists. The overwhelming beneficiary was the Hitler, the Nazi party and the German and Western ruling classes who wanted war.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375072911_False_Flag_Operations_Analysis_Implications_and_Historical_Context
Actually in my school when I was a child they taught me that the Reichtag fire was done by the Nazis themselves. I thought this was common official knowledge as fact, why I could twist a bit sarcasm into the said.
I had and have German friends who says the same without blinking an eye.
I was just trying to be funny.
Team A must hate Team B. If they didn’t, then the fans of Team A and the fans team B might notice that the owners – who own both teams – are screwing the fans of both teams. So, as one can see, it is absolutely necessary that both teams hate each other.
Trump the Trickster? The only thing archetypal about the Shadow King is the shadow state coming out more under this puppet president, defiant individualism be damned. Mythologizing a collective unconscious created by the corporate state’s mind control isn’t going to get us any closer to taking down the material means which allow any executive of the ruling class to get away with murder. We’re not going to psychoanalyze away organized crime against humanity by both liberal and conservative fronts of capitalism in its endgame of class war.
For the record, Hayen was psychoanalyzing liberals in this piece, not Trump.
I hate all these labels compartmentalising people. Tods friend doesn’t sound too “ liberal “ to me. Maybe just another normal person brainwashed by the media to hate Trump.
I have a young man of 25 years old in my family university studying who said to me in the phone, “Trump is a psychopath”.
“WHAAAT?”. “Do you know Trump personally?”, “No”. “Have you ever met Trump”, “No”. “Have you any arguments for this your position???”, “No”.
“Hey boy I think you are teaming around with too many leftist idiots”. “You are too young to bad company, make some sport instead”.
Must be tough being equal to the far-right, Nazi, racist, gun-loving, child-genociding MAGA evangelicals.
I think Trump will eventually be regarded as one of the best Presidents in US history. He has wisdom, courage and a good heart which already places him higher than anyone since Reagan.
Is this snark or are you just that fucking naive?
Donald Trump – Another aider and abettor of genocide with a good heart, much like his twin brother, Joe Biden.
You are completely detached from reality.
Oh dear, notice the “hate” from the commenters, exactly as described by Todd. Is there no middle ground? Perhaps Thom is half right or partially.
Imho, Trump is a mixture of good initiatives and some same old bad opinions. The last lot seemed just bad. Perhaps that’s progress.
There is no justification for carrying out or supporting genocide. There is NO middle ground when it comes to identifying genocide for what it is. There is nothing you, or anyone else, could put on a scale to balance out genocide against good intentions, “wisdom,” partial or half “rights,” “bad opinions” or anything else. Genocide has been recognized as “the crime of all crimes.” Your choice and those of others to ignore or downplay it is morally reprehensible.
Sure, he has a wisdom of wise guys.
The difference between Freud and Jung:
If these dreams were Netflix series, which one would you rather watch?
Freud blamed sexual repression.
Jung blamed spiritual repression.
They were both half right.
Freud 🤮 debauched person.
And obsessed with willies. I wonder why?
No both wrong. GOD, ELOHIM ✝️ IS KING AND CREATOR.
Which One?
FYI, elohim actually means ‘gods’, not ‘God’.
The rugged hitting the church.
Ooh i love a good romance..
None of the statements attributed to the two psychanalists is true or even makes sense so hopefully there will not be any Netflix series about that. I just don’t believe in their mumbo-jumbo and word salads but I accept that some people can be fascinated by them.
The Freud dream is recounted in his essay “On Dreams” which you can find in “The Essentials of Psycho-Analysis” (page 84).
Jung’s turd dream is recounted in his “Memories, Dreams Reflections” (page 56) – though to be fair it’s more in the nature of a vision.
We should all stop condemning everybody else but ourselves. Forgiveness.
First when you have forgiven everybody else, you are allowed to forgive yourself too.
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So, everything passes to get rid of liberal menace, even the orange one, the embodiment of Zaphod Beeblebrox….what a machiavellian worldview.
Patience will wear out a stone.
The problem with hating on Donald Trump is that it is stupid. Stupid people like easy things. It is much easier to hate Trump than to hate most other politicians. He is a crook, but he is also a flaming asshole. The others are for the most part bland ciphers. Just as crooked and blackmailed, if not more, but ciphers. It’s hard to work up a good hate on them. They don’t do all these completely asinine things in public.
All intelligent people know that they are all, all crooks. And that, over and above their crookery, they are blackmailed with videotapes of them committing heinous acts. Even if they were honest and well-intentioned deep in their hearts, they couldn’t do anything about it–because of the videotapes. And then they are also bribed (it is hard to believe how little they can be bought for) just in case blackmail isn’t enough.
The beauty from the controllers perspective of having a larger than life, brash, divisive character like Trump – and it is a character being played by him – in the hot seat is that it gives the office of (P)resident and the game of politics credibility. That my sound odd, but since it engages the electorate and even those who do not vote, in addition to those outside the USA, he is the perfect showman for the role.
Opinions are like arseholes, everyone has one, but very often people keep their opinions to themselves, especially in certain work or social situations. However, Trump polarises opinion and people can’t but help themselves in blurting out their opinion regarding him.
A few weeks ago at a social event, an American woman who I had never met before said she felt ashamed to be American. She never stated why, but everyone knew what she meant and there was empathy shown by a few others at the gathering. I wanted to puke in a bucket, because as far as I am concerned Trump is just a puppet. It was the display of naivety and the emotional involvement by her and others like her that makes me despair.
An actor, who follows a script with room to ad-lib but will lead people like a pied-piper to a predetermined outcome is worrying but precisely because of people like her who loathe him which further galvanises his followers to become more motivated to defend him. It is a real life cult of personality, both for and against this character.
As long as the public believe these politicos set agendas and make high level decisions, then the show will go on and we will remain slaves to a system that has not been constructed nor managed for the people’s best interests.
Im not saying you are wrong but could you enlighten us as to who is controlling Trump?
Follow the money
Trump has enough money. He is too old to be afraid.
Trump has all the money he will ever need — that’s generally what happens when the Rothschilds bale you out.
Is he doing them a final favour? Or what do you think drive a man >80.
The ‘controllers’ in the way I use the term are the unknowns (at least to us) so we can only speculate.
I commented on that previously:
https://off-guardian.org/2025/03/25/the-global-gang-running-the-world-and-ruining-our-lives/#comment-714986
As far as Trump is concerned Wilbur Ross, while head of bankruptcy restructuring at Rothschild Inc. took the opportunity to rescue Trump’s casinos in the late 1980’s and spotted that DJT could be of use in the future.
The above quotation from the following very informative article shows a tangled web of connections:
https://silview.media/2021/05/30/the-trump-rothschild-rockefeller-connections/
About seven or eight years ago, investigative journalist Whitney Webb also did a series of good pieces on Trump’s background and connections, including shady figures like Roy Cohn, Wilbur Ross and Jeffrey Epstein.
You could start with Susie Wiles and then go up to the systems level of the usual suspects.
Yeah but off w/ their heads at the top naturally.
The same People who own the Democrats.. and the private Banks, the Hedgefunds, the MIC, the Medical, Food and Agri Business Cartels, the Thinktanks , fake NGO’s.. the Media .. the People who want to own You Body and Soul.. Mass Murderers , thieves ,Liars Misanthropes, Eugenicists
Labels are like band-aids, there are many brands vying to be stuck over the wound attempting to heal beneath.
Wounds made with availability heuristics and confirmation bias tidily surrounded by the pus of oversimplified framing exercises to divide the mind and imprison the critical thinking capability.
‘Us vs. Them’ is the mental drudgery of midget minded sport.
Folks,
WEF are reorganising.
They feel the threat from Trump.
Not because he’s anti-globalist, but because Davos globalism is the wrong type of globalism.
Trump globalism harks back to the 1950’s post-war triumphalism that saw Merkans driving cars the size of towns to score a home run with their dates at the drive-in.
Don’t mock it !
It worked from mid 1950s to 1980s
The Merkan dream.
I used to have a 1968 Chevy Super Sport. Drove it all the way across the country. 8 miles to a gallon. Two people could stretch all the way out on the back seat and sleep comfortably.
https://mungfali.com/explore/1968-Chevrolet-Impala-SS
After 50 years of driving the dream, they finally got to the long anticipated end of the road, damaged, with a broken car, dead and broken body’s. And the surprise was, there was absolutely nothing there.
The Merikan dream
Merkan dream II
Now showing at a cinema near you.
Showing 22 hrs a day for 25 years, have we had enough yet?
Actually, it looks like they’re going to destroy America in the coming war and replace us with BRICS.
You’re way more patient than I am. I have to admit that I’ve basically given up on pro-regime liberals.
Seamus, you need ” and ” when you’re talking about “liberals”
Probably get jacked for this but – Don’t know the entirety of your discussion with your former friend, but perhaps if you had made it clear you thought Trump was a bigoted, racist, misogynist, basically evil warmonger, who killed and harmed millions for his support of Operation Warpspeed and the fake vaccine, as well as the Gaza genocide (could add alot more to that), and then said, “but, he didn’t cancel that one”, it might have been better. Unless of course you don’t feel that way about Trump, which it kind of sounds like. I can imagine if a die hard, true blue MAGA person was talking to your friend and pointing out what you did without elaboration, that your former friend would be right in discerning the MAGA person WAS defending Trump. So maybe without that elaboration, you are defending Trump.
And relative to this, “liberals dodge the mirror and fuel a cycle of division that’s tearing us apart”. Although you admitted that “conservatives have their own shadows to wrestle”, you did state that “the difference is, right now, the liberal heart’s hate is louder, shriller, and more unhinged.” On this I just say, you’ve got to be kidding me. Considering the hate Trump and his merry MAGA cult have thrown around, and continue to spew, the last how many years, that’s a real stretch. Also considering what Trump and his Project 2025er’s are doing, which deserves a shrill, unhinged response from all of us. Trump is calling at least half the country “scum”. He has been nothing but the “great Divider” and he’s getting worse. He has called all veterans “losers”. What more do people fucking want? Maybe we could call it even, but to rate liberal hate over that is imo, uh, wrong.
I’ll admit and I have on here before that I’m a true-blue Trump hater, some would say I have the dreaded TDS. But to me there’s a big difference from someone who hates all of them (i.e., all politicians of both parties in the U.S,) versus those who hate on Trump but support the democrats. (Same damn thing with those who hate on Biden and the dems but fully support Trump and the repubs.) I’ve done a lot of studying/reading about him since he started to run before his first term. The dude is an asshole of the highest order, a lying conman with no principles, morals, empathy and a small brain. He disgusts me. I won’t give him credit for anything on principle. But I also “hate on” the dems and liberals, Obama, Biden, Clinton, the woke bullshit, the whole ball of wax, and have for well before Trump came into the picture. I’m able to understand that they’re all in on the giant scam and still reserve a little extra for his ass. I see no reason to give Trump and his Project 2025 sociopaths credit for anything. You won’t hear me saying Obama, Clinton, or Biden did some good things either, I just won’t play that game, which falls right into theirs TO keep us divided and blurs the overall devious control they have over all of us. Giving them credit gives the political system credence in keeping people thinking there’s a difference and that just maybe, their vote matters. That’s why people keep voting for these two garbage oligarchy political parties.
Big Al hits it out of the park.
Liberal Hate is the lifeblood of Trumpism. It provides the cloak that disguises the true purpose of this administration and the people sponsoring it — (yet more) wealth transfer and the buildup of oppressive power to contain the inevitable backlash. You’ll notice that a common political promise is something along the lines “I’m sorry that you’re being screwed over, its the fault of xxxxx (fill in blank appropriately) but stick with me and the Land of Milk and Honey will be just around the corner”. There are variations on the basic theme — nostalgia for a long lost Golden Age or ‘the enemy within’ (or without) but it follows the same pattern. It works because electorates have notoriously short memories.
The current administration is actually following the path of the Nazi administration in the 1930s. Although people will immediately think of stuff like Nuremberg rallies I’m thinking more about the economic policies to deal with chronic balance of payments and deficit issues and the mechanism for overlaying a ‘unitary executive’ (aka dictatorship) over a democratic, federal republic. This really didn’t solve anything (apart from making the leadership and those connected with it obscenely rich) and the inevitable outcome was war because conquest was the only way to expand the economy to match the country’s spending. This will be is our fate, too — we’re just the latest in a string of screwed up economies that lurch into fascism because it offered a quick, painless, fix for structural economic problems. It’s never worked before and there’s no reason to think it will work this time.
But in a world dominated by propaganda there’s no room for nuance. Its the ‘pronoun du jour’, the gender dysphoria, the fear of the ‘other’ that’s front and center.
Well, our owners have done a remarkable job on the latest divide and rule using Trump, haven’t they? And instead of focusing their “liberal” anger on Trump himself, a worthy target of it in so many ways, they blame friends, family, or anyone else who voted for him or who expresses anything less than full on hate for him. You’d almost think there was an agenda behind that, wouldn’t ya? And yes, of course the “right wing” does pretty much the same, although the level of liberal hysteria does seem more extreme IMHO. Never mind that all voters are dupes (a very bitter pill to swallow and a very hard thing to admit for most, but sadly true), never mind that all politicians lie and manipulate their constituents, never mind the open corruption on both fake sides, blame people who are still under the spell of thinking elections really change anything. And by all means, save your most ferocious ire for anyone who points out the ugly truth that elections really are a farce.
The very idea that Trump or Biden is NOT in control, that neither of them can really be “beaten” in an honest contest, and that they are mere puppets is completely unacceptable here as the voters are to blame, not the corrupt pulling the strings. I was listening to a video the other day and one of the speakers brought up the Crips and Bloods and the red and blue they used to distinguish themselves. Who knows if that was intentional by whoever may have helped those gangs come to national notoriety – the CIA perhaps? Doesn’t really matter though, as metaphor it works perfectly.
I certainly take onboard your point on the Liberals – in the UK its the left (If the left still exists that is – Starmer PM, is not a socialist in any sense of the word) as for Trump – for me he’s a egotistical sociopath.
But worse still he’s a Zionist at heart aiding and abetting in a genocide in Gaza – he’s also still aiding the Neo-Nazi dictatorship in Ukraine – even though he said he’d end the conflict.
Trump also illegally recognised Jerusalem as the capital of Israel – he also used a Venezuelan puppet in Juan Guaido, to try and overthrow Maduro of Venezuela a democratically elected president – the Liberals may make up lies about Trump, but Trump is a monster nontheless.
Thank you Todd. I have been studying projection from a spiritual standpoint for years but for some reason did not tie it to the liberal hate for Trump. I have been astounded at my well educated friends expressing such hatred. It has been a mystery seeing such extreme views against Trump without any acceptance of the accomplishments he has made. Projection helps solve the mystery and the article is certainly a reminder to me of being aware of projection in every aspect of my life.
There are liberals, democrats, and republicans. Or are there? Trump like Biden, Obama, Clinton and the rest are all the same except for a few minor differences.
Anyway, they are in control of fxxx all. They are all bankers puppets. Trump is controlled by the private FEDERAL RESERVE who controls what he can and cannot do. The US is at least 40 trillion dollars in debt which could be called in at a moments notice.
The people of the US are the security and would lose everything they think is theirs.
Its the People v the Bank. Forget their puppets.
True.
Jung was the best of the West, but when he went East to India he avoided those Seers that had a better understanding of the human psyche than him, thus avoiding self doubt.
An earthly Nobel prize can make a person a demi-god in the eyes of elite, or himself – Jung. Western ‘culture’ is much overrated.
Spot on the money. A lot of “projection” going on indeed from my self-identified “progressive” friends and family these days. Along with ire and bewilderment directed my way simply because I don’t consider Trump any more dangerous than any other past American president. It turns out that basic familiarity with the actual real-world history of U.S. foreign policy has been enough to inoculate me quite effectively against TDS.
When friends and family tell me Trump “will become a dictator” and is “an authoritarian” – I kindly remind them of the covid era poll which showed 47% of Democratic Party voters would have been happy to see me sent to a detention camp for refusing their sacred “vaccine.” But “Trump is an authoritarian?” Really? “Projection” – indeed!
To paraphrase Nietzsche – “Irony is dead. Irony remains dead. We have killed it.”
Some Folks are slow learners.
Some Folks can’t show humility.
Some Folks are a lost cause.
It’s all our fault.
We allowed the fascist left (I use the term carefully) to steal the word “Liberal” without challenging their ownership of the word.
I dislike the word “gaslighting” but they are doing exactly that in turning the meaning of the word on it’s head and using it as a weapon against us.
Oh, I remember how good that felt: being part of the “good” crowd, ridiculing the peasents, flying so high…
Bur then I said something wrong, got kicked out and stood naked and shivering in the icecold loneliness. That made me think.
And so, maybe, just maybe you would consider this thought: maybe you’re enjoying your power to make those bloody liberals rage and scream.
Maybe you are just living your shadow like they are living theirs. Maybe you need them to live your nasty side without remorse.
Wow… German Ursula speaks excellent English! Watch this, it deserves your attention.
https://www.tiktok.com/@antisistem01/video/7508814805977861398
Its just, its just, we are a few who are so deadly tired of hearing about “the doos”.
This fake concept which is a penetrated falsehood throughout.
Do people and this Miss minipiggy not have anything other to do than arselicking the old Banker Families 24/7 in public by calling them collective ‘doos’, providing a cover for their cowardly money schemes.
Identity set by grievance
frames the weaponisation of ‘victimhood’
as a self-validating vengeance.
Yet who loves to hate MUST hate to love.
This the basis for the Great Projection as the lie and the father of it.
‘Collectivized guilt’ runs on false accusations and associations as fake virtue.Hence it would monopolise hate to socially mask as ‘care, security, and protection’ as the basis for its own ‘existential struggle’ set in the frame of truth demonised, feared and preemptively attacked.
Vested self-illusions demand sacrifice of truth, but ONLY in the minds of those who share them – for reality is not created by the mind, so much as a mind is shaped by rules and filters. Awareness of truth is then our responsibility -in context of the development of chosen self-illusions defended AS real.
Recognising self-beliefs and core definitions as choices that run as habit in place of a ‘hateful reality to which we are subjected and by which we are stamped -involves turning from hating or attack-thoughts to looking at them from a spark of a willingness to heal.
A split mind projects sickness of conflict to others and world – to body and to a past set irrevocable – lest the trauma should come back into awareness!
A split mind runs the belief you can get rid of the hated and feared by casting it out and attacking it.
A split mind seeks ‘special’ love within a world of hate – as means to offset and mitigate pain of conflict in perpetuity.
Self-specialness would war on God, and BELIEVE a split off thought can and has left its true source-nature to rage against what IT has made of a confusion of love, locked down in image and form-based ‘meanings’.
Only love identifies truly.
Giving and receiving as one.
The mind that measures
became in-structured
by its own fruits.
Limitation in vested concept
became limitation in conflict.
A ‘war of Principalities’
has all the reality we give it.
But the Truly Current
is without measure.
Transition from a mind for Getting
to a Mind for giving
and receivig
requires release
of what we are not
but think to be
for what we
thought lost
denied, broken
and betrayed.
Looking on lies
allows release of the false
unless doubling down in attack
crows on evils
as self-validating
‘righteousness’.
Conservatives hate in this manner also. I avoid both extremes, and it works for me.
Yes, the extremes both lead to authoritarianism.
Agreed. The Q-Anons are just as bad in their own way as the Antifa-anons.
Solon’s gift had two inscriptions:
‘Know thy self’ – and ‘nothing too much’.
Imbalance can polarize a loss of self to conflict – as if such a war can be ‘won’.
Driven by hate to eradicate hate in the shifting target of mutating threats or by fear of pain of loss to blind greed as overriding need (addiction).
I have read that an Aramaic original of what was translated as ‘meek’ in Jesus’ statement ‘The meek shall inherit the Earth’ is of moderation in all things – as in the ‘middle way’ for Buddhism.
This not to seek theological structure but to recognize the ‘underling terrain’ of living is given cultural expression as recognized and valued wisdom.
How we consent to throw away true worth and wisdom is where we need address the errors that must then multiply as loss of peace, integrity, and capacity for joy in being – regardless the nature and challenge of change.
Todd I would have thought you are further along then wasting time on bringing our attention to the orchestrated polarity of the left /right presentation
There is no helping those who still believe what’s presented regardless of sides
Enjoy your articles usually just this one not so much
I think there was way more to the article than simply bringing attention to the division. For me the article went into the deeper reasons for the division. I have been so troubled by what is happening and the article helped me make some sense of it…especially in relation to my friends who use the hate for Trump in casual day to day conversation.
After the last five years i am not at all surprised at the hate nor still need to dwell on it. I had a very Liberal friend rant about Trump the other day and even divulged her 13 year old child has now got depression over him winning the election and his current antics.
I offered some advice that the child should unplug from the doom scrolling and that all news being consumed is to keep us in a state of fear so we are easier to control.
Her rant continued and I can see how cemented in she is on the beliefs as there is no big thinking outside of what is spoon fed.
There is no helping others at this stage of the game and focusing on why the division. and Trump v Libs instead of practical solutions (which seem thin on the ground here ) is the exact paradigm “they” want us stuck in. Being selective with what we focus our energy on now is very important.
It is not altogether secret that the US pivot of a transnational military industrial complex NEEDS enemy threats to ‘survive’ or persist as global security status.
So does the ego of the personal defence mechanism.
That is why Jesus said ‘resist ye not evil’.
But having taken identity from the hated and feared – such a mind will not see or hear anything BUT as framed and directed.
‘They know not what they do’, means psychically dissociated by fear.
Joining in hate gives power by agreement to each separately take or boost identity from the hated. Thus the illusion of joining runs social masking for denial and refusal of love – in the name (but not the nature) of love.
Choosing not to join with hate, does not demonise and attack the hater. Protecting integrity of being from a disintegrity of ‘morally’ framed deceit, is abiding in peace or sanity instead of engaging with lies as a means to make or establish truth thereby.
The mind can be phished by appearances. Vigilance for peace (as the basis for joy in life) can discern a loss of peace as a call for correction in our own mind – so as to release the blocks to awareness that fears or wishes given power, otherwise run as a distorted ‘reality’.
But if we have given love welcome as a renewal of our mind, we will not long suffer the torment of a self-betrayal, and so will be ‘found’ in our attempts to mask, hide or deny, as already forgiven – or rather; never condemned.
Guilt runs usurping substitution for God.
By their fruits shall you know them.