10/19/2018
It has been very tough, since 1984 & Reagan, to overcome in our society the steady buildup of fear, anger, and addiction to right-wing fake and ignorant news media outlets.
You know the ones--created by now disgraced Roger Ayles: Fox News, with Sean Hannity and the gang; Disgraced Bill O'Reilly; American Liberty, Patriots, and of course Brietbart and the disgusting Steve Bannon; and worst of all, Talk Radio King Rush Limbaugh, who has done more to divide, ignite irrational anger, rage, terror, lies, and other non-fact-based idiocy than any other voice on the planet. And now comes CBS and the disgraced Les Moonves. The smartest thing Moonves ever did was hire the brilliant pundit, Stephen Colbert to be a voice for sanity on CBS's The Late Show (although I greatly miss bitingly satirical Comedy Central's Colbert Report's Stephen) Mr. Colbert stayed in character and mimiced "Papa Bear" Bill O'Reilly's obnoxious, bullied reporting. I watched the news become fighting arena-worthy "entertainment" and late night "entertainment" become actual informative news.
These reporters and hotly-opinionated individuals fanned the flames of hatred and discord 24/7 of bigotry, sexism, racism, fake terrorism, elitism, white male dominance and supremacy, last-century patriarchal control and other disconnected ideals that cannot and eventually will not survive. The movement has brought a new level of awareness to the lack of moral fiber, indecency and power-hungry domination these men embodied--however successful these men were in business--to conscious awareness of everyone who would listen and watch the truth be revealed.
These organizations have typically kept older white males, and the women who enable them, in Amygdala gland overload and subsequent fear-based and destructive brainwave/constant terror-based neurotransmitter and neurochemical responses.
In a documentary film, THE BRAINWASHING OF MY DAD by JEN SENKO, Jen deeply explores these issues when her father undergoes radical personality changes after succumbing to a literal battering of daily-increasing-doses of FOX news. Her father goes from tuning into FOX news to being consumed by FOX news. She literally documents and describes the phenomenon of mind/body/spirit changes in both the decline of and personality changes of her Dad. In a first-ever preview in Atlanta of this film last night, she tells the audience, in a Q & A about the film afterwards, that these right-wing individuals have divided our nation and their words and behavior are like pouring gasoline on a fire. She offers, and I agree, that this behavior is a calculated demise and the key to understanding and underscoring many, many root causes of society's ills. She interviews dozens of academics, specialists and leading voices of our time such as Noam Chomsky and many others.
Systemically, THIS BRAINWASHING BEHAVIOR and the pathology it reveals, is THE UNDERLYING reason we are experiencing our stress-based illnesses, anxiety/depression, PTSD, auto-immune dysfunction, even mass shooting chaos and insanity. And all of them demonize and blame Democrats and Liberals as the distractive focus of their deep, unaccountable inner rage and unhinged imbalances. They need to regulate the neurotransmitter GABA (gaba amino butyric acid) and the hormone cortisol more than they will ever know. The sheer adrenal fatigue/addictive-behavior responses experienced from constant terror and fear-based news overload has created the society we are experiencing right now, currently played out in the arena of aggression known as the midterm elections.
How do we offer our fellow citizens breakthroughs and help release them from the prison of irrational hate their minds have been conditioned to build around them? Short of pulling the plug on the constantly streaming radio everywhere and the screaching, overstimulating "news" programs broadcast everywhere, how does this segment of humanity restore itself to balance and reality?
If you've noticed how unbearably hostile Republicans have become on Social Media and in demonstrative gatherings, and most importantly quickly degenerate to name-calling, bullying, close-minded, critical and argumentative speech, non-negotiable rhetoric, then perhaps, through understanding how and why their brain chemistry has been intentionally altered and programmed, we can understand and subsequently dismantle the spew and offer constructive, life-evolving thought patterns.
Roger Ayles and his cronies and specialists knew precisely, for 40 years, how to target and grow these groups and keep them isolated from humanity and connected only to others who had the same programming. God Almighty it is a huge task to find balance and, thankfully, not the mindset I view the world around me with. For the first time, I'm beginning to see these mostly isolated, imprisioned, and vulnerable men with compassion, rather than hatred. As a dear friend pointed out: "I love, even when I do not like". Maybe I just feel freer and more open now to understand "the other side" now that my own father has passed. He experienced the same transformations Jen's dad did before he died. In any case, I felt relieved to see this post when I got home. It was a perfect offering and perhaps the beginning of the return of democracy, integrity, accountability and honor. The movement has been the crack that has allowed the light and healing to pour back into my soul, as well as Dr. Ford's testimony. Perhaps these men and women of the far right will recognize they are the "enemy" they have been seeking. Their terror is real. As long as they will not and cannot look in the mirror they remain a very weak chain in the evolution of mankind. Thanks for reading this post! I'm off to the Capitol this morning to help demand the resignation of Brian Kemp and advocate for the release and right to vote of our 60,000 Georgia Citizens. And BTW, I bought the DVD of the moving documentary I saw tonight and, after the election, plan to host a winter cuddle party viewing and constructive alternatives going forward. Popcorn and fireside atmosphere provided. Happy voting and Godspeed the Blue Wave. All love all the time, Dr. Donna B. Donache
