American Insanity
2/19/25 letter to editor at Cascadia Daily News:
Editor,
After two and a half centuries of aggression driven by avarice and bigotry, the United States government— under Democrats and Republicans — has always served the interests of the aristocracy represented by Wall Street at the expense of democracy and human rights. Now that this ugliness is laid bare by our self-designated emperor and his Proud Boys street thugs, reasonable Americans are bewildered by the insanity.
William Vega, an American public health researcher at Rutgers — published in the Archives of General Psychiatry in 1998 — observed that Mexican immigrants have roughly half the incidence of psychological dysfunction as Americans. After 13 years, though, these immigrants develop depression, anxiety and drug problems at the same level as the general population (32%). Additional studies have extended these findings to other ethnic groups, leading to the conclusion, that “socialization into American culture and society increase susceptibility to psychiatric disorders.”
Twenty years ago I wrote, “The fact of the matter is that our culture makes people crazy.” Americans have been documented to have abnormally high mental disorders. World Health Organization reports on the specifics of this phenomenon are alarming, to say the least.
Add to that the effects of inadequate brain development due to poor education and unloving environments, organic brain damage from physical and psychological abuse or accident, as well as brainwashing from aggressive media and religion, and we’ve got some seriously damaged folks running around. When these confused and often angry fellow citizens get involved in politics, things can get real ugly.
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