Usa is ever more plugging into a sort of collective psychosis abyss!

(Disclaimer: I'm a Greek citizen and I am not voting for Trump. I find quite unusual and interesting though (astrologically, psychologically, semiotically) the phenomenon of the over-demonization of the current American President. I have attended psychology courses in the University but I am not an actual psychologist).

Thousands of Americans are posting each day remarks condemning the current President, Donald Trump. And, with so many people incessantly engaging in this "demonization ritual", they are only adding to it! The demonization has escalated by now to an insane "Middle Ages" - "Witch hunt" level. We are ultimately witnessing here the emergence of what Eckhart Tolle termed as a "destructive unconscious hive-mind" (when people are relentlessly demonizing a specific individual or group of people).

Take, for example, the following Facebook comment:
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""Paternitia: "Carmen Johns~
- ""We are in the clutches of a skilled psychopath. It is very difficult for people to really grasp what that means. They believe he is a human being, but he is not..
- And so he gets away with everything, because he turns being treated as a human being to his reptile advantage—in ways even the worst of actual human beings would never even consider doing.
- He is not there because of an election, and he will not be gone because of an election. Think of what it took to dislodge Hitler. *That* is the ballpark we are in..
- That is why even the most radical solutions prove fruitless. Snakes are adept at slithering away, to reappear and again strike unexpectedly, releasing their deadly venom with every strike.
- Only other snakes are immune from this. It’s a kind of 'professional courtesy' among psychopaths. Why? because protecting one makes the grazing easier for all of them..
- We’re not used to it. As a nation, we are being terrorized every day by a leader who hates people, his country, and all that lives.

- That is his nature and he is faithful to it—and always will be. And that is nearly impossible for most of us to accept.

- Why? because it goes against the basic premise of our own humanity—which, pointedly, he neither shares nor really even understands.

- The only difference is, He knows he is not the same kind of creature we are ... and we, for the most part, do not.

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This is clearly an "unconscious hive-mind" product! Probably millions of such irrational statements are frantically written each day on Facebook etc. by American citizens. This phenomenon can be partially explained by Democratic party members' concerns that President Trump won't win over more people. Just partially though. Because ultimately people could simply go and massively vote against Trump and that would be the end of the story! But there seems to be something else here, something vital to people!

It seems that this collective over-demonization of Trump triggers a powerful psychological process deep within the peoples' souls! The so called collective "shadow" projection! A process that entails the releasing of unpleasant inner tensions, of negative emotions, etc. by directing them on "convenient" exterior "targhets," on persons which may actually be completely unrelated to us. But we don't really care how unrelated to us these persons are (or how "innocent") as long as they serve as "vehicles" for the releasing of our painful inner tensions!

It's like my boss disparaged me today at work but as I cannot contradict him I am writing now posts on Facebook about how awful Trump is - getting plenty of likes for actually revenging my boss (sic)! And it's not just about our eventual boss. Countless embarassing and painful to us situations that we experience daily are often released upon "convenient targhets" through the "shadow projection" mecchanism we explained - without even our knowledge! So, it is no coincidence that millions of people in the United States appear to have developed by now an addiction to relieving their inner anxieties and frustrations by constantly lashing out at their current president!

Surprisingly enough, any form of political, racial, or gender-related "polarization" has its psychological benefits. Thus, people are frequently resorting to such "polarizations" to relieve their own inner anxieties and tensions! And the entire planet's number  one polarization seems to be taking place in the last few years in the United States! I am talking, of course, about the notorious, made in the USA, super -polarization: "We the good Democrats are fighting with the "monstrous" Republicans" - and vice versa!

Last but not least, publicly diminishing an authority figure and calling him/her names like "dumpster", "cheeto" etc. - as many American are currently calling their President - has somehow been a suppressed wish of ours, ever since our childhood! There is no doubt that ridiculing authority figures without suffering any consequences provides a certain (somehow twisted) satisfaction - and a relief of inner strain! 

That's actually the third time that we encounter here this "release of inner tensions" mecchanism! It is evident that "demonizing" a certain authority figure - or any "different" to our own group of people - turns to be "therapeutic" to very many people!

As far as I can recall, there has never been such a over-demonization phenomenon of a public figure, as is currently occurring in the United States! Maybe we should blame it on the "Capricorn Climax"...

Thomas Gazis

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