Hate Kills: 800 + children-teenagers killed in USA School Shootings – “the New Right’s idolatrous nationalism, misogynist-racist politics of fear and hate.. many in the new Global Oligarchy act like they are self-made gods.
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life. Galatians 6:7-9 + “We become what we think” – Buddha
Hate Kills: 800 + children-teenagers killed in USA School Shootings – “the New Right’s idolatrous nationalism, misogynist-racist politics of fear and hate…many in the new Global Oligarchy act like they are self-made gods.
Within the dying Modern World and its dying Industrial Civilization, many in the new Global Oligarchy act like they are self-made gods. Beginning especially with fossil fuels, and now especially through hi-tech and hi-finance, this new Global Oligarchy is using its gargantuan hyper-wealth and hyper-power to inflict cruel social suffering and unsustainable ecological devastation. Also, to expand their hyper-wealth and hyper-power, many oligarchs are now also promoting the New Right’s idolatrous nationalism, misogynist-racist politics of fear and hate, repressive libertarian-authoritarian dictatorships, and venomous deformations of religion. JOE HOLLAND (Professor Emeritus of Philosophy & Religion, St. Thomas University President, Pax Romana / Catholic Movement for Intellectual & Cultural Affairs USA Co-Founder, Spirituality & Sustainability Global Network (SSGN)
Oligarchy is a small tight knit group that wields power over a country or countries – like the elite Republican billionaire group which has effectively seized power (with the collusion of the Supreme Court) in the USA Using Executive orders to rewrite the constitution (which I list at the bottom) That is perhaps best illustrated by Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”. At the center the “big, beautiful bill” is an extension of Mr. Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which was slated to sunset at the end of the year. The legislation would make most of the tax cuts permanent, while increasing spending for border security, defense and energy production. The bill is partially paid for by significant cuts to health care (major cuts to Medicaid) and nutrition programs, like Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the bill would add $3.4 trillion to federal deficits over the next 10 years and leave millions without health insurance.
“the New Right’s idolatrous nationalism, misogynist-racist politics of fear and hate”
Huffington Post Article: “Trump Just Ran The Most Racist Campaign In Modern History ― And Won; No other major-party presidential candidate has embraced explicit racism the way Trump has.” – Nathalie Baptiste Nov 6, 2024
800+ children-teenagers have been killed in US K12 school shootings (excludes colleges) Hate Speech of Trump as well as Republicans who supported Trump who is a racist and echoed Trump’s hate speech has been linked to the increase in school shootings and – for instance in the studies by Hodwitz & Massingale; Piazza; Nacos, Shapiro, Bloch-Elkon, consistently indicate a correlation between hate speech and increased violence. In 2024 CNN said there have been “82 school shootings.”. In contrast there has been only 1 school shooting in Spain & 2 in the Philippines.in their entire history (and the two were NOT the kill for the sake of killing in so many US shootings + one Filipino writer observed there is easy access to firearms in the Philippines) – while in the USA there have been 73+ school shootings for the last 4 consecutive years. The surge began in 2015 – when Trump entered politics. It is distressing “to me” many American leaders don’t seem to grasp the severity of the situation and how horribly more violence occurs in the USA compared with other countries. The USA might as well be from another planet – it is that large of a discrepancy.
The Trump-Republican Campaign of Fear and Hate. Over 800 children-teenagers killed in School shootings
President Donald Trump has undermined Black Lives Matter protesters, calling them “terrorists” and “thugs.” He has made Asian Americans the target of hate crimes, calling the deadly coronavirus the “Chinese virus” and “Kung flu.” And the president has used eugenics to appeal to his white supporters, telling a mostly white crowd in Minnesota they have “good genes.” So, when Trump urged the Proud Boys, a violent far-right group, to “stand back and stand by” at Black Lives Matter protests, it was another example of the incendiary rhetoric that has marked his presidency. Since announcing his presidential campaign in 2015, Trump’s contentious comments about people of color have been blasted by critics who say he is creating a divided America.
Hate Speech incites and increases violence in school shootings – as well as terrorism. The recent assassination of Minnesota Politicians, a politician in Utah, as well as the United Health CEO, confirm Piazza’s conclusion: “I find that hate speech by politicians is a significant, substantive, driver of domestic terrorism.” New York Times: “Minnesotans awoke on a recent Saturday (6-15-25) to reports that an assassin (pro-Trump psycho) had spent the night ticking his way down a list of Democratic targets, wounding one state lawmaker and his wife and then, just as the police closed in, killing another, along with her husband and their dog. It was shocking. But it quickly seemed to become just another episode in a recent spate of political violence. Since last July, two people have tried to assassinate Donald J. Trump, an arsonist set fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion while the family slept, an assailant fatally shot a couple leaving the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington and a man was charged with attempting to kidnap the mayor of Memphis.”[i] On top of that there are over 610 mass shootings every year for the past four consecutive years.
Source: David Riedman, K-12 School Shooting Database Article: “804 People Have Been Killed by Guns at U.S Schools” The chart is shocking
Background “Trump’s racism long predates his foray into politics. Before he ever launched a presidential bid, Trump had exhibited a pattern of discrimination toward his Black tenants, called for draconian punitive measures in the Central Park Five case, and made a public show of questioning Barack Obama’s citizenship. But the political spotlight — and a rabid base — has only made Trump’s incendiary rhetoric grow worse. Ahead, we look at the most racist things he’s said since he officially began his political career in the summer of 2015.” The Ever-Growing List of Trump’s Most Racist Rants; The president’s remarks about Black protesters and coronavirus during a campaign rally in Tulsa are just the latest examples by Andrea González-Ramírez[ii]
2015 hate speech
- Trump kicked off his presidential campaign on June 16 from the Trump Tower in Manhattan, and immediately touched off a furor with his comments about immigration. “When Mexico sends its people,….They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.
- Comment about women: “You have to treat ’em like shit,” Trump said
- Trump stated that there should be “The ‘total and complete shutdown’ of Muslims entering the U.S.
School Shootings- Review There have been 804 K-12 deaths in school shootings. The K-12 School Shooting Database, maintained by researcher David Riedman, found 804 victims have been killed and an additional 2,221 have been wounded in 2,699 incidents since 1966. These findings include every instance in which a gun was fired, brandished, or a bullet hit school property regardless of the number of victims. The author notes the number of incidents, victims, and deaths has increased dramatically in the last six years, made evident by the chart below. There has been an exponential increase in school shootings beginning in 2015 – which is when Trump entered politics.
“There have been at least 76 school shootings in the United States so far this year, as of November 11 [2024].” In contrast Spain has had one school shooting and the Philippines (in which there is “easy” access to firearms in their entire history. Of the 76 school shootings, “Twenty-four were on college campuses, and 52 were on K- 12 school grounds. The incidents left 36 people dead and at least 103 other victims injured, according to CNN’s analysis of events reported by the Gun Violence Archive, Education Week and Everytown for Gun Safety.” (CNN fast facts) School shootings in the usa are 57 times the total of the European nations combined 73+ school shootings for 4 consecutive years plus 610+ mass shootings for 4 years
A couple years ago, the FBI reported a new high in hate crimes in 2021: Asians were the major target including 826 Filipinos Washington Post: The number of hate crimes in the United States jumped dramatically in 2021 to set a record high of nearly 11,000 incidents, the FBI said in a supplement to its annual hate crimes report. – with a huge increase in hate crimes reported by Asians including 826 Filipinos
For the record, in September 2016, I posted an article on FB and later sent a letter to Congressman Ruppersberger that stated that Trump’s hate speech and racist rhetoric would incite people and result in an increase in hate crimes and white supremacist shootings – which did occur. There was an increase of 17% in hate crimes in both 2017 and 2018 (as reported by the FBI), as well as a spike in white supremacist killings internationally
The Washington Post reported that hate crimes hit an all-time high in 2021 – For some unknown reason, Asians were the primary target. The FBI reported over 9,000 hate crimes against Asians with 826 hate crimes against Filipinos.
Introduction – Outline: Trump’s Hate Speech and its Impact on Violence
- Trump’s Hate Speech and its Impact on Violence: highlights of three studies:
- James Piazza’s study: This study concludes that hate speech by politicians is a significant driver of domestic terrorism
- Hodwitz and Massingale’s study: This study shows that Trump’s derogatory messaging created an “othering” dynamic,
- Nacos, Shapiro, and Bloch-Elkon’s study: This study found a direct correlation between Trump’s online and offline hate speech and his followers’ aggressive rhetoric, violent threats, and actual violence
- Trump’s Use of Scapegoating and Ingroup-Outgroup Dynamics:
- Trump, like Hitler, employed scapegoating techniques to vilify “outgroups” (minorities, immigrants, the media) and create a sense of fear and division. The ingroup-outgroup syndrome is well-proven.
- Social Consciousness, Materialist Ideology: Surge in Anti-Social Violence Since Trump’s Rise
- The materialist perspective in social psychology has neglected the importance of social consciousness and group dynamics, leading to a “restricted and limited” worldviews of human behavior.
- The Impact of Trump’s Policies on Social Order: highlights of several examples of Trump’s policies that have exacerbated social tensions and contributed to a climate of fear and instability:
- Family separation policy: This policy deliberately separated children from their parents, causing immense trauma and fueling anger and resentment.
- Betrayal of the Kurds: This action undermined US credibility and created a dangerous power vacuum in the region, potentially leading to further instability and conflict
- declared “enemies,” most of all, minorities, the news media, and oppositional politicians.”[1]
- Donald Trump has been characterized and criticized as populist and autocrat. He certainly is first of all a demagogue who, like all demagogues, has distinguished between his loyal ingroup on the one hand and the disloyal outgroup(s) on the other hand. This polarization allows demagogues to stir “hatred of the outgroup(s)…through scapegoating.”
Trump using Hitler’s scapegoating techniques
Donald Trump took “scapegoating right out of Hitler’s playbook. Hitler rose to power to a large degree because of his scapegoating techniques which vilified the outgroups such as the Jews. Political scapegoating actually first “publicly” appeared in the late 1800’s in Europe. If there is one thing social psychology has demonstrated is the existence of the ingroup-outgroup syndrome. John Bargh “Henri Tajfel and his colleagues showed just how ridiculously minimal [easily triggered] these “us versus them” cues could be. They had their participants draw colored balls from and urn so that some drew red balls and some drew blue ones. (The selection as entirely random) But later, when given the chance to divide up some money, the participants gave more to those who drew the same color ball as they had, and less to others in the room.”
What human history has demonstrated is that there are horrifically powerful emotions connected with conflicts with outgroups. Since WWI there have been over 200 genocides and countless atrocities. As Tim Wildschut et al, observed, “It is estimated that just in the final decade of the twentieth century, the deadly wars of places like Rwanda, Bosnia, and Ethiopia claimed the lives of 30 million people and made refugees of another 45 million (McGuire, 1998).”[2] (Wildschut, Tim, Brad Pinter, Jack L. Vevea, Chester A. Insko, and John Schopler. “Beyond the group mind: a quantitative review of the interindividual-intergroup discontinuity effect.” Psychological bulletin 129, no. 5 (2003): 698.)
As the authors of the article “Beyond the Group Mind: A Quantitative Review of the Interindividual–Intergroup Discontinuity Effect” which was published in Psychological Bulletin, observed, “It is estimated that just in the final decade of the twentieth century, the deadly wars of places like Rwanda, Bosnia, and Ethiopia claimed the lives of 30 million people and made refugees of another 45 million (McGuire, 1998). Still, even though human relations may be as “stubbornly set” as ever, this meta-analysis underlines that great strides have been made toward understanding why intergroup relations are often more antagonistic and competitive than interindividual relations.”[3]
The horrific extreme forms of violence are unfortunately consistent in some circumstances in conflicts with outgroups. In the periodic violence between Muslims and Hindus in India there are several examples of people being set on fire and burned to death. An eyewitness in the Turkish Genocide of Armenians reported people being thrown down a well then being set on fire. In the Japanese “Rape of Nanking”[4] there were reports of Chinses being set on fire, drowned, buried alive, as well as reports of Chinese pregnant women being bayonetted in the belly, and, of course, the Japanese military used thousands of Chinese civilians for live bayonet practice. Race and nationality are irrelevant – for instance the Rwanda genocide involved black tribe versus black tribe. Group related instincts are very powerful. 11 million soldiers went to their deaths in WWI – all of them patriots. The point is that scapegoating taps into very powerful group related emotions and scapegoating works because by vilifying the outgroup, Trump emotionally swindles – tricks people into thinking he is therefore part of the ingroup. By allowing Trump to blatantly use hate speech the DOJ has condoned and approves thousands of deaths,
The chart below shows that the surge in school shootings began Roughly around 2015 – the time Trump entered U.S. politics.
School shootings in US: Fast facts: Alex Leeds Matthews, Amy O’Kruk and Annette Choi, CNNUpdated 5:20 PM EST, Tue November 12, 2024
CNN: “Students and educators have engaged in activism around the issue of gun violence, and some educators have quit the profession”[5].
Some states in the south have seen the highest rate of school shootings relative to their populations since 2008, according to CNN’s analysis. Washington, DC had the highest rate — 6 total shootings, almost 1 per 100,000 people — while Texas had the most overall with 61 school shootings. Meanwhile, just five states — Montana, Wyoming, New Hampshire, Vermont and Rhode Island — had no school shootings in that period, according to CNN’s analysis.”
In the USA there have been 73+ school shootings for four consecutive years plus 610+ “mass shootings” for four consecutive years. Anti-social violence is off the charts in the US. There isn’t Categories of analyses of school shootings (Wikipedia): Age, Family dynamics, Parental supervision, School bullying, Mental illness, Injustice collectors, Violent media theory Video games, Literature, Notoriety. I saw nothing on cultural or social factors and of course not a word about Trump’s Hate speech and fear tactics. anything even REMOTELY comparable in any other country.
A point of information: Categories of analyses of school shootings (Wikipedia): Age, Family dynamics, Parental supervision, School bullying, Mental illness, Injustice collectors, Violent media theory Video games, Literature, Notoriety. I saw nothing on cultural or social factors and of course not a word about Trump’s Hate speech and fear tactics.
Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life. Galatians 6:7-9
“We become what we think” (Buddha) –
“An increasingly mechanistic, fragmented, decontextualised world, marked by unwarranted optimism mixed with paranoia and a feeling of emptiness, has come about, reflecting, I believe, the unopposed action of a dysfunctional left hemisphere.” — Iain McGilchrist
Rupert Sheldrake, author and scientists, observes “The atheist [materialist] ideology found a powerful ally in materialist science, which by the end of the nineteenth century, portrayed a purposeless, unconscious, mechanical universe where humans, like all life, had evolved without purpose or guidance. In this godless world [devoid of spirituality], humanity would take charge of it own evolution, bringing economic development, brotherhood, health, and prosperity to all mankind through progress.” (p.157)
In summary, I find that hate speech by politicians is a statistically significant, and substantive, driver of domestic terrorism in countries. When politicians frequently use hate speech in their public statements, the rate of domestic terrorism increases by almost nine-fold. A Specific examples Trump uses is the “2019 mass shooting in El Paso, Texas that claimed 22 lives…. in his manifesto Crucius (shooter) stated that he committed the attack to stem an “Hispanic invasion” of the United States by migrants from Latin American countries.”[6]
James A. Piazza asks: “Does hate speech – rhetoric that targets, vilifies, excludes or is fashioned to intimidate racial, ethnic, religious or sexual minorities, women, political opponents, migrants, disabled persons or members of other groups – by political figures fuel domestic terrorism?1 This question, unfortunately, gained a new salience in the United States in the wake of the August 3, 2019 mass shooting in El Paso, Texas; an incident that claimed 22 lives and that was investigated by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations as a domestic terrorism incident (Romero and Bogel-Burroughs 2019). The suspect in the attack, Patrick Wood Crucius, posted an online manifesto minutes before the incident that echoed incendiary public statements made by US President Donald Trump and by other prominent conservative politicians and commentators. …. For example, in his manifesto Crucius stated that he committed the attack to stem an “Hispanic invasion” of the United States by migrants from Latin American countries. The manifesto vilified Latino immigrants as drains on the U.S. economy, decried the demographic “replacement” of whites by Latinos and other nonwhite minorities, and used the phrase “send them back” with regards to Latinos living in Texas (Arango, Bogel-Burroughs, and Benner 2019).
Conclusion: In summary, I find that hate speech by politicians is a statistically significant, and substantive, driver of domestic terrorism in countries. When politicians frequently use hate speech in their public statements, the rate of domestic terrorism increases by almost nine-fold, considering that countries where hate speech is a rare occurrence experience around one attack per year while countries where hate speech is common experience between nine and ten attacks per year, all things being equal.
I also find that hate speech boosts domestic terrorism by stoking political polarization that makes domestic terrorism more likely, shedding some light on a causal mechanism linking hate speech with terrorism. The principal conclusion to be drawn from these findings is that politicians’ words have security consequences.
The findings also suggest that increased civility on the part of political figures, or projection of tolerance in politicians’ public statements, could yield a substantial security dividend by reducing domestic terrorism[7]. (Politician hate speech and domestic terrorism James A. Piazza To cite this article: James A. Piazza (2020): Politician hate speech and domestic terrorism, International Interactions,)
- Study 2: Omi Hodwitz & Kelley Massingale
Hodwitz and Massingale observe, “On 29 September 2020, then-President Trump, when asked to denounce white supremacists during a presidential debate, called on the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by” (Obeidallah, 2020). The Proud Boys, a white nationalist organization based in the United States, embraced this message as a call to action, prominently displaying it on clothing and other merchandise. Several months later, the Proud Boys, along with thousands of other supporters and hate group members, many of which were touting Confederacy flags and racist or Neo-Nazi messaging, engaged in a fatal attack on the United States Capitol building. They had been told earlier in the day to “fight like hell” by then-President Trump during a rally (Naylor, 2021). Many of the attackers claimed that they were following the orders of the President.” (Rhetoric and hate crimes: examining the public response to the Trump narrative Omi Hodwitz & Kelley Massingale)”
- Study 3: Donald Trump: Aggressive Rhetoric and Political Violence by Brigitte L. Nacos, Robert Y. Shapiro, and Yaeli Bloch-Elkon
“During Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy and presidency political discourse in the United States became more hateful and divisive. Threats and actual violence against groups and individuals singled out and demonized by Trump increased. The targets of his verbal attacks were most of all racial, ethnic, and religious minorities, the news media collectively and individual journalists, and well-known politicians, mostly Democrats. There was a rise in bullying incidents in schools against minority students. Assuming that aggressive rhetoric by influential political leaders affect their supporters’ words and deeds, we examined Trump’s online and offline hate speech, the rhetorical reactions of his followers, and the violent consequences suffered by their declared enemies. Trump’s aggressive, divisive, and dehumanizing language was seconded by his followers and inflicted directly or indirectly psychological and physical harm to Trump’s declared enemies.”
“Our research found that Trump’s online and off-line hate speech corresponded with his followers’ aggressive rhetoric, violent threats, and actual violence against Trump’s declared “enemies,” most of all, minorities, the news media, and oppositional politicians.”[8]
Donald Trump: Aggressive Rhetoric and Political Violence by Brigitte L. Nacos, Robert Y. Shapiro, and Yaeli Bloch-Elkon PERSPECTIVES ON TERRORISM Volume 14, Issue 5
Point of Order: “James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution” In an article on June 3 2020 in the Atlantic By Jeffrey Goldberg,
James Mattis, the esteemed Marine general who resigned as secretary of defense in December 2018 to protest Donald Trump’s Syria policy, has, ever since, kept studiously silent about Trump’s performance as president. But he has now broken his silence, writing an extraordinary broadside in which he denounces the president for dividing the nation, and accuses him of ordering the U.S. military to violate the constitutional rights of American citizens.
“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us,” Mattis writes. “We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership. We can unite without him, drawing on the strengths inherent in our civil society. This will not be easy, as the past few days have shown, but we owe it to our fellow citizens; to past generations that bled to defend our promise; and to our children.”
A Secretary of Defense PUBLICLY DENOUNCES a president for racism – and the DOJ is mum? – and now there are 73+ school shootings a year for four consecutive years and 610+ mass shootings a year for four years and they don’t care??
“L’etat c’est moi.” “I am the state” – Hitler and Trump: Perspective of Group Mind in Historical Cycles: Jung’s Prophecy of Hitler as the “state as me” & Trump as the Mirror Image of Hitler “State as me”, scapegoating and anti-globalism.
Carl Jung had some brilliant insights. Some of his insights and perspectives about dictators are particularly relevant to contemporary politics. “And a new miracle happened. Out of nowhere certain men came, and each of them said like Louis XIV, “L’etat c’est moi.” They are the new leaders. The State has proved its personal reality by incarnating itself in men that came from Galilee, inconspicuous nobodies previously, but equipped with the great spirit voice that cowed the people into soundless obedience. They are like Roman Caesars, usurpers of empires and kingdoms, and like those incarnations of a previously invisible deity devoutly invoked and believed in by everybody. They are the State that has superseded the medieval theocracy. This process of incarnation is particularly drastic in Hitler’s case. Hitler himself as an ordinary person is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts. As a mere man he is inoffensive and modest, and has nice eyes. When the State-spirit speaks through him, he sends forth a voice of thunder and his word is so powerful that it sweeps together crowds of millions like fallen autumn leaves. There is obviously no power left in the world and particularly no State-loving “-ism” which is capable of resisting this incredible force. (Carl Jung, CW 18, Pages 567-581)
Hitler’s opposition to “internationalism” matches perfectly Trump’s antagonism to “globalism” recently espoused in a speech at the U.N – and Trump advocates “nationalism” which historically has demonstrated itself to be aggressive, inflexible, and often very violent. So, politically Trump is a clone of Hitler’s politics of hatred and aggression. That could possibly be reflection of the ingroup-=outgroup syndrome which by vilifying outgroups activates the powerful emotions connected with the ingroup-patriotic emotions. Recently there was an anti-NATO march in Canada echoing those same sentiments of anti-globalism. Extreme right-wing groups have gained momentum in Canada recently from news reports.
Many people compare Trump to Hitler and the Republicans to Nazis. Historically, a comparison of Trump to Hitler reveals that Trump’s politics mirror perfectly Adolf Hitler’s well known and despicable tactic of “scapegoating.” Hitler gained popularity with his “nationalism” platform which of course triggered strong instinctual “patriotic emotional responses. Also, Trump’s narcissism, which is well known, matches perfectly Hitler’s narcissism. Trump’s homophobic anti-gay and anti-transgender matches Hitler’s well-known homophobia. Furthermore, Statistics and facts support the argument that Trump’s hate speech has incited, encouraged, and increased right wing extremist violence – that’s a hard fact. In 2017, after Trump took office, hate crimes increased 25% and even though Trump supported Israel, since hate is hate, attacks increased against Jews by 90%. Also, an article showed a serious spike and surge in right wing Neo-Nazi and White Nationalist violent terrorist attack
Excerpt from article: Day 1 for Trump: WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has said he wouldn’t be a dictator — “except for Day 1″. His list includes starting up the mass deportation of migrants, rolling back Biden administration policies on education, reshaping the federal government by firing potentially thousands of federal employees he believes are secretly working against him, and pardoning people who were arrested for their role in the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. “I want to close the border” Trump has said that “within two seconds” of taking office that he would fire Jack Smith, the special counsel who has been prosecuting two federal cases against him[9]. (AP National News Trump on Day 1: Begin deportation push, pardon Jan. 6 rioters and make his criminal cases vanish Published November 10, 2024)
“Bolton says Trump ‘unfit’ to be President in new memoir intro” By Arshad Mohammed and Steve Holland: “WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton excoriated former President Donald Trump as an utterly self-interested man who would punish personal enemies and appease adversaries Russia and China in a new edition of his memoir released on Tuesday.
Bolton, who served in Trump’s White House in 2018 and 2019, accused the Republican presidential frontrunner of having no political philosophy or coherent policy outlook. If re-elected, Trump could leave the NATO security alliance, curb support to Ukraine despite Russia’s 2022 invasion, embolden China to blockade Taiwan and generally pursue isolationism, Bolton warned.”
Dick Cheney former Republican Vice President under G.W. Bush said the same thing – that Trump is unfit to serve as President of the United Sates. In the last Biden – Trump election 300 former intelligence officials who worked under president G. W. Bush publicly proclaimed they were pro-Biden.
Scapegoating and letters to Congressman Ruppersberger
In 2016 I sent Congressman Ruppersberger a letter explaining that Trump’s hate speech and racist rhetoric would result in an increase in hate crimes and an increase in white supremacist shooting rampages – both of which came true – of course. In both 2017 and 2018 the FBI stats showed a 17% increase in hate crimes in both years as well as a spike on white supremacist killing sprees. Yet, there is no mention of that factor in any study of school shootings. It is the job of the DOJ-FBI to make proper assessments of threats to America. It is an important factor without which the current studies of school shootings are distortions – worthless in my view. If you look at the graph of school shootings, the surge began around 2015, roughly the time when Trump entered politics.
For the record I wrote 5 or 6 essays explaining some causes (ingroup-outgroup syndrome and social identity research + neuropsychology research) and historical background of the 200+ genocides since WWI and the innumerable atrocities – as well as the mechanics of scapegoating which has been employed – not just by Hitler – but documented in Europe in the late 1800’s. The mechanics are simple – but vilifying outgroups and minorities Trump “Emotionally” identifies himself as an “ingroup member.” In 2017 – 2018 I wrote letter and posted essays. I did categorically state if the police did not get additional training to help cope with strong emotions connected with outgroup conflicts the disproportionate number of unarmed blacks killed by police (facts are there – you have to dig for them) would not improve – and they didn’t. In 2021, the Washington Post printed an article which said Blacks say nothing has changed – which really shouldn’t be a surprise.
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Trump’s policy of Separating children from their mothers as punishment
Trump’s policy of deliberately separating children from their mothers to punish them for immigrating More than 5,500 children, including infants, were removed and hundreds have still not been reunited as of August 2022. Excerpt from Wikipedia on Trump’s Policy of separating even very young children from their mothers.
“The United States family separation policy under the Trump administration was presented to the public as a “zero tolerance” approach intended to deter illegal immigration and to encourage tougher legislation. It was officially adopted across the entire US–Mexico border from April 2018 until June 2018. Under the policy, federal authorities separated children and infants from parents or guardians. More than 5,500 children, including infants, were removed and hundreds have still not been reunited as of August 2022.”
Review: 36 Hours After School Shooting in January, Trump Said ‘We Have to Get Over It by Lauren Tousignant | July 15, 2024[10] | – “Get over it”??? America in the last three years has had 73 school shootings in 2021, 79 school shootings in 2022, and 82 school shootings in 2023.! That is obscene – but “Get over it tells you Trumps true mindset.
Overview of School Shootings: “The US has had 57 times as many school shootings as the other major industrialized nations combined” (that is actually from an outdated CNN article) Recent data reveals, “There have been 413 school shootings since 1999” “More than 378,000 students have experienced gun violence at school since Columbine. Beyond the dead and wounded, children who witness the violence or cower behind locked doors to hide from it can be profoundly traumatized”[11]. (Washington Post article https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/interactive/school-shootings-database/)
The federal government does not track school shootings, so The Washington Post has spent years tracking how many children in the United States have been exposed to gun violence during school hours since the Columbine High massacre in 1999.
Washington Post Article: “More than 357,000 students have experienced gun violence at school since Columbine
The median age of a school shooter is 16: Children, The Post also determined, are responsible for more than half the country’s school shootings — none of which would be possible if those children didn’t have access to firearms. The ranks of school shooters include a 6-year-old boy, who killed a classmate he shot on purpose, and a 15-year-old girl, who did the same to a friend for rejecting her romantic overtures.
Point of order: Access to firearms is the focus of many scholars. As appoint of order, I believe gun ownership is not a divine right and there is no reason for people to own AR-15’s. That being said, in the Philippines, there have been only two school shootings (only one according to Wikipedia) – and firearms are readily available in the Philippines – so access to firearms is Not the Sole criteria. The type and category of school shootings to a large extent is very different from the USA where killing for the sake of killing appears the primary “type” in the USA. The school shootings in the Philippines appear more like political assassinations with collateral damage as it were.
In the USA “targeted” shootings is a category along with “random rampage” school shootings. “Most studies identified extreme social rejection and bullying as key risk factors. Social rejection, perpetrated by peers, often included romantic rejection. Bullying took numerous forms, both verbal and physical, and was heavily characterized by actions and words meant to humiliate the victim. Other research-identified risk factors included the availability of guns and the consumption of violent media (especially violent video games, but also violent music, television shows, and films).”
Still – “the 2012 shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, where 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed 27 people before committing suicide; shortly before the attack he had also killed his mother in their home. The shooting garnered particular attention due to the age of the victims: 20 of those killed were 6–7 years old.”[12] – just doesn’t exist in the Philippines (school shooting, Britannica – https://www.britannica.com/topic/school-shooting)
However, if you look at the “meta” statistics compared to other countries, it is clear that the American culture has a problem – even considering “targeted” school shootings – “The US has had 57 times as many school shootings as the other major industrialized nations combined” (CNN – https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/21/us/school-shooting-us-versus-world-trnd/index.html)
“Almost all the deadliest assaults were committed by White gunmen” [Yet] Black students make up 16.6% of the school population but they experience school shootings at twice that rate.” “Across all such incidents, The Post has found that at least 205 children, educators and other people have been killed, and another 464 have been injured.”
Deep South has highest rate of gun deaths among major regions: Average of annual gun deaths per 100,000 people in each region from 2010-2020 Nationwide rate: 11.4-gun deaths per 100,000 people.[13] (The Surprising Geography of Gun Violence, Politico magazine, By COLIN WOODARD 04/23/2023) – which is prime Trump follower territory.
Addendum The Dark Side of Psychology: Detrimental health effects of academic ideologies, abstractions, and maladaptive stereotypes – from research on Free Will
Research by Kathleen Vohs and Jonathan Schooler showed that “It seems that when people stop believing they are free agents; they stop seeing themselves as blameworthy for their actions. Consequently, they act less responsibly and give in to their baser instincts”[14]. Vohs emphasized that this result is not limited to the contrived conditions of a lab experiment. “You see the same effects with people who naturally believe more or less in free will,”[15] she said.
“Further studies by Baumeister and colleagues have linked a diminished belief in free will to stress, unhappiness, and a lesser commitment to relationships. They found that when subjects were induced to believe that “all human actions follow from prior events and ultimately can be understood in terms of the movement of molecules,” those subjects came away with a lower sense of life’s meaningfulness. Early this year, other researchers published a study showing that a weaker belief in free will correlates with poor academic performance…….
The list goes on: Believing that free will is an illusion has been shown to make people less creative, more likely to conform, less willing to learn from their mistakes, and less grateful toward one another. In every regard, it seems, when we embrace determinism, we indulge our dark side.”[16] (There’s No Such Thing as Free Will – But we’re better off believing in it anyway. Story by Stephen Cave Atlantic, JUNE 2016 ISSUE)
Psychologies as Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
It is true that the materialist ideology is purposeless. “We become what we think” – Buddha
Self-fulfilling psychologies are realities – and should be considered in context of psychology theories – especially materialism and reductionism. Most everyone has heard of “positive thinking” and that positive thinking yields positive results. For instance, there have been over 300 studies of “hope” – the origin of positive thinking as it were – and the overwhelming conclusion was that “Hope” produces positive health benefits (duh). One study of students revealed that students who were told they are smart performed better. So, yes – “We become what we think!”
Excerpt from article “Impression Formation” C.N. Macrae, S. Quadflieg[17],
The term self-fulfilling prophecies refers to the observation that sometimes our beliefs about others can lead us to treat them in such a way that they subsequently become what we expect them to be. Originally, the effect was demonstrated in the classroom and called the ‘Pygmalion effect.’
The Dark Side of Psychology: Materialist ideology as a self-fulfilling prophecy
Pivotal Behavioral Consequences Originating from the Concept and Academic Abstraction of Free Will – (excerpt from essay on Free Will)
The Materialist Worldview: Alfred Rupert Sheldrake (born 1942), an author and scientist states “The atheist [materialistic] ideology found a powerful ally in materialist science, which by the end of the nineteenth century, portrayed a purposeless, unconscious, mechanical universe where humans, like all life, had evolved without purpose or guidance.”[18] (p.157) (Quotes from the Science and Spiritual Practices: Transformative Experiences and Their Effects on Our Bodies, Brains, and Health, 2017 by Rupert Sheldrake)
“Purposeless”, unfortunately, is true. The Boston University analysis of Social cognitive theory states that emotions and motivations are weaknesses. I had a biology PhD tell me that there is no meaning at all in life because science has demonstrated there is no perceivable purpose to the universe. That is a fallacy – same mistake Tolstoy made – equating “meaning” in his life to an ultimate purpose of creation in the universe. So, yes Sheldrake is correct: materialist ideology mandates that “humans, like all life, had evolved without purpose or guidance.”
Iain McGilchrist, a British psychiatrist, scholar, philosopher and neuroscientist published the iconic 2009 book and The Master His Emissary, stated “An increasingly mechanistic, fragmented, decontextualised world, has come about, reflecting, I believe, the unopposed action of a dysfunctional left hemisphere.”[19] In other words, McGilChrist’ s research basically links materialism with the over-dominance of the left hemisphere. It would stand to reason that the academic institution and schools would play a powerful role in conveying those un-values – primarily via unconscious norms and stereotypes.
Christina Maimone states, “Ideology is, as Mannheim uses the term, a mode of thought that obscures the real condition of society to the group holding the thought…. Groups are simply unable to see particular facts that would undermine their conception of the world… Ideology is most strongly associated with groups that have a dominant position in society. Their ideology serves to secure their place in the social order….” “Social science becomes an increasingly complex task when one realizes that social scientists themselves are firmly embedded in a social context and subject to ideological and utopian thought. My mode of thought will determine what questions I ask, how I define concepts, and what elements of the world my social reality obscures.”
Addendum: Total of school shootings in the world – Wikipedia
School shootings in Argentina (3 P)
School shootings in Brazil (10 P)
School shootings in Canada (1 C, 8 P)
School shootings in Chile (2 P)
School shootings in Denmark (1 P)
School shootings in Finland (5 P)
School shootings in France (1 P)
School shootings in Germany (7 P)
School shootings in Israel (1 P)
School shootings in New Zealand (1 P)
School shootings in Russia (8 P)
School shootings in Serbia (2 P)
School shootings in Ukraine (1 P)
School shootings in the United Kingdom (6 P)
Wikipedia
Studies of United States school shootings
During 1996, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) together with the US Department of Education and the United States Department of Justice, published a review of deaths related to schools occurring as a result of violence, including explicitly “unintentional firearm-related death”[20], for the academic years 1992–1993 and 1993–1994.[91] A second study (Anderson; Kaufman; Simon 2001), a continuation from the 1996 study, was published December 5, and covered the period 1994–1999.[92]
A United States Secret Service study concluded that schools were placing false hope in physical security, when they should be paying more attention to the pre-attack behaviors of students. Zero-tolerance policies and metal detectors “are unlikely to be helpful,” the Secret Service researchers found. The researchers focused on questions concerning the reliance on SWAT teams when most attacks are over before police arrive, profiling of students who show warning signs in the absence of a definitive profile, expulsion of students for minor infractions when expulsion is the spark that push some to return to school with a gun, buying software not based on school shooting studies to evaluate threats although killers rarely make direct threats, and reliance on metal detectors and police officers in schools when shooters often make no effort to conceal their weapons.[93]
In May 2002, the Secret Service published a report that examined 37 U.S. school shootings. They had the following findings:
Incidents of targeted violence at school were rarely sudden, impulsive acts.
Prior to most incidents, other people knew about the attacker’s idea or plan to attack.
Most attackers did not threaten their targets directly prior to advancing the attack.
There is no accurate or useful profile of students who engaged in targeted school violence.
Most attackers engaged in some behavior prior to the incident that caused others concern or indicated a need for help.
Most attackers had difficulty coping with significant losses or personal failures. Moreover, many had considered or attempted suicide.
Many attackers felt bullied, persecuted, or injured by others prior to the attack.
Most attackers had access to and had used weapons prior to the attack.
In many cases, other students were involved in some capacity.
Despite prompt law enforcement responses, most shooting incidents were stopped by means other than law enforcement intervention.[94]
Addendum The Trump Dictatorship: Tracking the Trump Administration’s Harmful Executive Actions
The Trump Administration has acted illegally and unconstitutionally in ways that weaken our democratic institutions, slow down our economy, roll back protections for public health and the environment, and put health care and Social Security benefits at risk for millions of Americans.
• Executive Order Freezing Federal Grant Funding Date: January 27, 2025
• Reducing Administrative Support for NIH Grants Date: February 7, 2025
• Executive Order to Dismantle the Department of Education Date: March 20, 2025
• Cuts to Pell Grants and Federal Student Loan Programs Date: February 5, 2025
• Attacks on the Department of Education Locking Lawmakers Out Date: February 7, 2025
• Rollback of EPA Regulations Date: February 4, 2025
• Withdrawal from Paris Climate Accords Date: January 22, 2025
• Cuts to Clean Energy and Sustainability Programs Date: February 2, 2025
• Closure of USAID Date: February 3, 2025
• Action: The Trump Administration empowered DOGE to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID),
• Deportation of Student Protesters and Foreign Scholars Date: March–May 2025
• Executive Actions Targeting Colleges and Universities Date: April—May 2025
• Public Health Rollback of Healthcare Regulations Date: January 25, 2025 The Trump Administration issued executive actions rolling back key patient protections under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
• Executive Orders Targeting Law Firms Date: March 2025
• Stripping Power from Independent Regulatory Agencies Date: February 18, 2025
• Rollback of Affordable Drug and Insulin Pricing Policies
• Executive Order Removing U.S. from WHO Date: January 20, 2025
• DOGE Access to Government Payment Systems Date: January 31, 2025
• Executive Order Ending Birthright Citizenship Date: January 20, 2025
https://cohen.house.gov/TrumpAdminTracker
Nine Recently emerged Major Anti-Social Behaviors
2. From Wikipedia: “As of 2017, studies indicated that the rate at which public mass shootings occur has tripled since 2011. Between 1982 and 2011, a mass shooting occurred roughly once every 200 days. However, between 2011 and 2014, that rate has accelerated greatly with at least one mass shooting occurring every 64 days in the United States. (Wikipedia) Besides school shootings, a number of “antisocial” behaviors have emerged recently. First the CDC study showed an increase of 36^ in the suicide rate from 2000 to 2021 – and an epidemic in narcissism in western countries of roughly 25% (Twenge, et al).
3. CDC: Suicide rates increased approximately 36% between 2000–2021. Suicide was responsible for 48,183 deaths in 2021, which is about one death every 11 minutes.3 The number of people who think about or attempt suicide is even higher. In 2021, an estimated 12.3 million American adults seriously thought about suicide, 3.5 million planned a suicide attempt, and 1.7 million attempted suicide. Suicide affects people of all ages. In 2021, suicide was among the top 9 leading causes of death for people ages 10-64. Suicide was the second leading cause of death for people ages 10-14 and 20-34.3
4. There has been a recent drastic increase in physical assaults on teachers in America – and worldwide i.e Teacher stabbed to death by pupil in France (BBC World News, France)According to a new survey from the American Psychological Association, one-third of teachers report that they experienced at least one incident of verbal harassment or threat of violence from students during the pandemic. (National Education Association, USA)
Germany sees increase in attacks on teachers. (Deutsche Welle, Germany) Student Violence Against Teachers Has Become the Norm and That’s NOT Okay. (Bored Teachers, USA) School principals experience highest rate (75%) of violence and abuse in Australia. (ABC News) Surprising Israeli statistic emerged: the victims of student abuse – primarily veteran teachers – don’t seek help. (Bar-Ilan University. Israel) New Zealand teachers want action as student assault rates on staff escalate . (Stuff, New Zealand) – (Violence Against Teachers: 17 Alarming Statistics and Headlines https://www.bite-pro.com/blog/post/violence-against-teachers-17-alarming-statistics-and-headlines)
During the 2020–21 school year, a higher percentage of elementary public-school teachers than of secondary public-school teachers reported being threatened with injury (8 vs. 4 percent) or being physically attacked (7 vs. 1 percent) by a student from their school. Teachers Threatened With Injury or Physically Attacked by Students (https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/a05/teacher-attacked-by-students)
5. The FBI reported a new high in hate crimes in the USA: Washington Post:
The number of hate crimes in the United States jumped dramatically in 2021 to set a record high of nearly 11,000 incidents, the FBI said in a supplement to its annual hate crimes report. – with a huge increase in hate crimes reported by Asians including 826 Filipinos
UPDATE March 13, 2023 7:18 PM Masood Farivar US Hate Crimes Hit Record High: FBI Updated Report
6. Intentional killings of police have increased dramatically in the USA
Last year saw the highest number of law enforcement officers who were intentionally killed in the line of duty since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, an increase that comes as a rise in gun violence and homicides continues across the country.
According to preliminary year-end data provided to CNN by the FBI, 73 officers died in felonious killings in the line of duty in 2021. The year marks the highest total recorded by the agency since 1995, excluding the 9/11 attacks . (https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/13/us/police-officers-line-of-duty-deaths/index.html)
7. Assaults on healthcare workers have had an exponential increase:
What’s behind an alarming rise in violent incidents in health care facilities “Government data shows that health care workers are five times as likely to experience workplace violence as other workers. They accounted for 73 percent of non-fatal injuries from violence in 2018, the most recent year for which numbers are available, and there are signs it’s getting worse.”
8. Narcissism Epidemic: Since roughly 2000 there has been an epidemic of narcissism in western countries. Is modern life making us more narcissistic? And if so, why? We agree with Paris (2014, pp. 220 –226) that the answer to the first question is yes. In fact, as we demonstrate below, the case for increasing narcissism is even stronger than presented in his article. On the second question, we agree that expressive individualism and lack of social support play key roles in this increase. However, we question the idea that therapy is building narcissism.” (The narcissism epidemic: Living in the age of entitlement. APA Psych net)
9. Perspective from an extreme case: Chinese Kindergarten Knife Slayings
China kindergarten stabbing: Six dead in Lianjiang By Kelly Ng & Rupert Wingfield-Hayes BBC News The stabbings also fit in to a disturbingly familiar pattern. Firearms are banned in China but the country has seen a spate of knife attacks in recent years, although there was also one incident where the attacker used a chemical spray to injure a classroom of 50 children. The BBC has counted at least 17 knife attacks in schools, colleges and universities since 2010. Ten of those have happened between 2018 and 2023.
This particular behavior is unheard of – unknown! Killing – murdering – with a knife is up close and personal – very different from killing forma distance with a gun. Killing a 5 or 6-year-old child with a knife is horrifically brutally violent. Any way you look at the situation – it is Abnormal – with a capital A.
The article highlights these two incidents:
“In April 2021, two children died while 16 others were injured during a mass stabbing in Beiliu City, in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
In October 2018, 14 children were injured in a knife attack at a kindergarten in Chongqing, south-west China.”
Excerpt from Wikipedia
A series of uncoordinated mass stabbings, hammer attacks, and cleaver attacks in the People’s Republic of China began in March 2010. The spate of attacks left at least 90 dead and some 473 injured. As most cases had no known motive, analysts have blamed mental health problems caused by rapid social change for the rise in these kinds of mass murder and murder-suicide incidents. The state media has also been keeping news of these attacks quiet by deleting forum entries on the internet and releasing few facts on the incident for fear of copycat crimes and mass panic. (almost as bad as FB when it comes to spirituality – eh?)
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[i] (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/us/political-violence-minnesota-assassination.html)
Excerpt from ruling “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely—the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.” Well, yeah…. half the modern word is not in the constitution – nuclear power, airplanes, automobiles. It is a blatant fallacy-false premise. Furthermore, the supreme court argument that a woman’s body has no relevance constitutionally is horses**t. It was a political hatchet job. The bastion of “Truth and Justice” using a superficial and obvious fallacy is antisocial act because a lot of Americans are losing faith in “justice” or fair treatment.
Commentary: One analysis emphasized that the USA has fifty-seven times as many school shootings as all of Europe combined. The suicide rate in the USA has increased 36% since 2000 and at 14.2 per thousand is over double the rate of suicide in the Philippines. Also, while assaults on teachers are a worldwide problem, assaults on teachers are an epidemic in the USA. In the Philippines, physical assaults on teachers are rare.
[ii] (https://gen.medium.com/trump-keeps-saying-racist-things-heres-the-ever-growing-list-of-examples-21774f6749a4)
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