Held Hostage-the undoing of an American city
episode 136
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We threw out the entire script we had ready for tonight's show to bring you something more important—the undoing of representative democracy in an American city.
Join us to watch and listen to the hysteria, abuse, and threats hurled for hours at the meeting of the Burlington Vermont City Council on August 14. Radical activists, anarchists, and black supremacists screamed, lied, cajoled, and threatened the mayor and the city council. For what? For having the temerity to investigate the management practices of a former black employee in the city's "Racial Equity Inclusion and Belonging" department.
The opportunistic white politicians who hitched their wagon to these crazed anarchists to get the lunatic vote have now arrived at the only destination that was ever possible.
This is a difficult episode to watch, but not as difficult as it will be for all of us if we don't notice what's happening and stand up before it's too late.
Cowardice has killed many American cities.
The Antidote: Just say “no” to the plethora of bought and paid for bullies. They are, in most cases, PAID TO BULLY YOU. Stop. Complying. Grow TF up, and stop scraping and bowing to their dog whistles like a bunch of cowardly Pavlovian dogs. It. Is. Sickening.
Borderline personality disorder is treatable using psychoeducation methods like Dialectical Behavioural Therapy, but watching this meeting is like bearing witness to a disorder-enhancing strategy. The reason it was called “borderline” in the first place is because sufferers can hover on the edge of psychosis at times, which is what we’re almost seeing here.
The big problem with legitimising and indulging this kind of self-righteous hysteria and infantile belligerence is that it’s going to be very hard to put it all back in the box, should the useful idiots in power one day realise it’s potentially toxic even to those who’ve encouraged it. And the next step for people who’ve been able to not just get away with, but who’ve been applauded for extreme behaviour like this is clearly going to be grievance-fuelled violence.