America Taken Hostage and the Stockholm Syndrome Crisis
By: Conservateur | 28 April 2020
Life has been totally obliterated. Reality has been roundly rejected. Evidence has been passionately ignored. America is over.
Politicians and police have taken the American people hostage, but instead of responding in opposition and outrage, Americans have expressed their deepest gratitude toward their abusers. There is a real crisis, but it is not a virus. The American people are suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.
Stockholm Syndrome is a psychological disorder that develops through trauma and results in a person feeling affection or loyalty for the one causing their trauma. In hostage situations and abusive relationships, the person suffering the abuse can sometimes develop a bond with their abuser. Psychologists have yet to find a satisfactory explanation for why this occurs and why it only manifests in certain individuals, but the phenomenon is real. People may sometimes give their loyalty to those who are most undeserving — those who rightly deserve their hatred.
As we examine American society in the present — under lockdown orders ostensibly enforced to curb COVID-19 — we are witnessing the largest scale hostage situation in our nation’s history. But rather than responding as our founding fathers did in the face of a markedly less tyrannical government, the American people protect their captors, comply with excessive obeisance, and cannibalize any fellow citizen who refuses to genuflect to their political masters.
I have witnessed the shocking battles taking place on social media over our perception of the present situation. It appears the majority of people have been duped into this slavery without any logical, medical, economic, scientific, or statistical rationale. They simply trust their masters. It does not matter how many medical professionals publicly refute these lockdowns. It does not matter how obviously over-inflated the numbers are exposed to be. It does not matter that these lockdown orders are illegal. It does not matter that we are tangibly and demonstrably destroying our healthcare system and devastating the lives of millions. The American people are tripping over themselves to honor their masters, begging their political leaders to defile them a little more. It is frankly disgusting.
I am reminded of the wise question parents of yesteryear asked their children to expose the idiocy of a child’s decision to blindly follow their friends. They would ask, “If Billy jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?” Seriously, America — would you? If Doctors Fauci or Birx or Johns Hopkins or Bill Gates or the CDC or WHO or the mainstream media told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it?
Our willingness to obey these obviously absurd orders leads me to believe that our government could do anything it wants, and the American people would acquiesce like docile sheep. Is there anything that would go too far? Is there anything our government could do that would cause the American people to cry, “Enough!” Where is the line? It is as if we are experiencing the second coming of Jim Jones in Dr. Fauci, and he is telling us to drink the Kool-Aid. Will we honestly drink the poison and commit mass societal suicide? This sickness runs so deep I am afraid it is terminal.
When we must now debate whether freedom is good, we have reached a state of crisis. That is like having to convince a person that they need air to breathe or they must drink water. How can we possibly reason with people who disagree over such foundational issues? If freedom is not viewed as the sweetest and most precious gift we have as a nation, then why has our society so voraciously condemned the slavery of our country’s early history? Perhaps slavery was not so bad? But slavery was a despicable reality — so why are we begging to be enslaved by our own government? They work for us, or have we forgotten this?
But while many would chafe at the comparison of our current lockdowns to slavery, the two are not entirely different. Governors are ordering supposedly free citizens to stay home like fascist dictators. What could be more oppressive than restricting a person’s right to physically move? If we cannot walk outside freely, we have lost one of the most basic rights we have — one that is forfeited only by prisoners. We have become prisoners. As well, we are not free to operate unapproved businesses. Preventing a person from providing for their basic human needs may be the most flagrant violation of freedom there is.
We are not free. This is slavery of a different form, and it is of such a severity that it will destroy millions of lives. Many people will die from these lockdowns. Many serious illnesses will go undiagnosed and untreated from these lockdowns. Many will face lifelong health problems from these lockdowns. Many will suffer devastation to their families. Many will experience broken relationships. Many will face hunger. Many will experience mental anguish. Many will face the loss of property, cherished memories, and sentimental valuables that can never be replaced. The toll upon the people in our country will be massive, and it will extend far beyond the duration, amount, or degree of harm caused by COVID-19.
We can never fully undo this, but if we care about the precious lives of 330 million Americans, we would lift these lockdowns now and try our political leaders for treason. We have made the biggest and most devastating mistake in our history.
Freedom is rarer than any jewel in the world, and if you lose it, you will never get it back. Throughout history, freedom has been the prized possession of the elite few. In every other society, freedom came at the expense of others, and while the revisionists will pervert our nation’s history to paint ours as oppressive, we were the first society on earth to truly find a way to honor the freedom deserved by every person regardless of ethnicity, gender, or class. As we moved past slavery and its lingering disparities, we were one of the first and only nations on earth to completely abolish slavery and to protect the God-given freedom that belongs to each human being. No person should be mastered by another. When another person tells you what to do, where you can go, what you can say, what you can buy, and what you can believe, they have become your master, and you have become their slave.
We are hostages, slaves, and inferiors to a tyrannical and evil government. Will we continue to suffer the Stockholm Syndrome crisis pummeling our society or will we fight back against our captors and remove them from power? The choice is ours, but if we choose the former, we will never return to the freedom or prosperity we once had. Misery will be our reality.
