“… the successful interrogation of a strongly resistant source ordinarily involves ... the calculated regression of the interrogatee … The interrogatee's mature defenses crumbles as he becomes more childlike.” - KUBARK

Desperation capitalism imposes debility, dependency, and dread - conditions prescribed by KUBARK for breaking the minds of “strongly resistant sources”.

The vast majority of Americans cannot avoid repeated infection by a deadly and disabling disease our millionaire-owned politicians and media relentlessly pretend-away. Then, they cannot find or afford meaningful treatment to become well enough to work. This is the definition of debility.

Even working multiple jobs, millions still require public assistance for shelter and food. This is the definition of dependency.

Most Americans are only a few paychecks – or one medical emergency - from bankruptcy or homelessness. Living with this constant and real worry is the definition of dread.

Being well informed and grounded in facts and credible science is incompatible with being mentally well. In this environment, Americans are aggrieved, sick, sad, tired - and above all frightened. The voting public is regressed, KUBARK style, begging for a parental figure to save them, or at least make them feel seen, heard, and safe. Even fairy-tale safe.

Think of a hardcore Trumper you know.
A Trump-will-save-the-country person.
Think of who that person was in middle school.
Think of who their father was; what he was like.

Think of a hardcore Biden supporter you know.
A Biden-can-do-no-wrong person.
Think of who that person was in middle school.
Think of who their father was; what he was like.

Kamala was marketed as a kind of “professional stepmom” – going to the office, but also smiling, laughing, and making dinner – or at least serving food. Understanding the psychology, Republicans attacked her as “not a real mom”. And, months after losing the election, she’s still fund-raising with staged scenes lifted from the cover of “Good Housekeeping” magazine.

Tim Walz is the surrogate father figure – the favorite of your friends’ dads - or maybe the coach who was a stand-in for an absentee father. He’s the guy who would give you a ride, fix your car, or lend some other hand, not tell your mom, and set you straight when you need it.

The kind of political cult leader voters gravitate to reveals the innermost memories and symbolism of the parental figures they had, or wished they’d had, during the most vulnerable years of their lives. Vulnerable again, our primitive brains grasp for whomever can seem to awaken the feeling that the meanies will be taken to task, and we will again be and feel safe.

The political cults are fielding people who fulfill (or fake) the superficial features that stir these memories and feelings. Unfortunately, they are hollow. They are not our parents. They do not care for us. They are not going to save us or make us safer. They are only playing on the most desperate and needy emotions experienced by people in desperate and frightening times – brought on by the people who own and operate the hollow puppets, painted to remind us of parental figures.

We will not be saved by any of these people.
They are not our parents, or any other kind of saviors.
We must escape the delusion and con-game that they are.
We must escape the clutches of their physical and economic power.
We must become the saviors we have been waiting for.
We must adult for ourselves and our communities and our country.

Until we face these facts – and do these things – we will remain as helpless as children – trafficked for profit by predators posing as our forever parents.