abortion monomania

Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol *1772, 1840† was a physician, and an early psychiatrist. He studied asylum patients, and wrote about monomania. Monomania is a partial insanity, in which a generally sane person is pathologically singularly preoccupied.

The first idea in Catholic ethics is that the means DO NOT justify the ends. As in the syllogism, false premises invalidate conclusions. Also, to promote God sincerely is to do so without lying. Jesus does not need your lies.

There has been a successful campaign by forces of politically "conservative" Catholicism to reduce all morals, and politics to only the position on abortion. All other social justice issues have become incidental, or contrary. This includes most bishops, much Catholic media, especially Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN). Any attack is of use to advance the position, any method, no regrets. By any means necessary is antithetical to Catholic (Christian) ethics, and they don't care. And "conservative" politicians, and interests (financial predominately) have benefited by this blank cheque, carte blanche.

In earlier American history, there was a movement to prohibit the use of alcohol. These prohibitionists sought laws to achieve their ends. They effected the outcomes of elections. They wanted candidates to give them lip service in order to achieve their ends. They did not care about anything else, and they did not care whether the candidate complied with the prohibition of alcohol himself. They did not care if he was competent, or corrupt. The cause for temperance was not good enough, absolute prohibition. The full force of the movement would be used against the "wets". Eventually the "drys" won. So Prohibition was in effect from 1920 to 1933, and crime increased.

Beware the company you keep

These presumptive, authoritarian, conservative voices have taught hatred towards Democrats, Catholic Democrats, and those who vote for Democrats. They came after John Kerry, and now Joe Biden. They hated Obama, and the Clintons, and before especially Teddy Kennedy. And now they pushed for Trump.

Trump is a psychopath. He is vicious. There is probably no false accusation against him, he has done far more dirty deeds which have not been made public. His personal life was, and is, filled with immorality unto depravity. He wanted the daughter of the woman, who was his second wife, aborted. Marla Maples told him she was pregnant, that was his solution. Maples did not have an abortion. Trump had raped many women, and had affairs with others. Were there other children? born, or unborn? 

Donald has cheated in every endeavor he was in. No public figure has demonstrably lied as much as Trump. Everything he touches, he destroys. His career is that of destruction, he almost destroyed America. The failed self-coup of the 6th of January, failed primarily because of the idiots Trump used as insurrectionists. There are many confederates not yet known to the public. 

In addition, to the fascist Hitlerian modeled flags and merchandise displayed by the Trumpfenwaffenleute, there were "Christian" flags in the mob. I am not surprised by the lunatic fringe of apocalyptic Protestant millenialists, dominionists, and other lunatics in the rabble that seiged the Capitol. There has also been Catholics who have been recruited through successful propagandising. 

There were draws to making trumpsters:  the first, foremost, and strongest was race hatred, and racial resentment; those that want white supremacy. But, the religious issue that was cast to catch Catholics was abortion.

Birds of a feather...not the flock to be in

And on the issue of abortion, Catholics have made a compact with others. Not everyone is Catholic, but anyone can be a person of good will regardless if they have any religion, or none at all. The groupings of people who have the least good will towards Catholics, are those Evangelicals, who are by other tags Baptists (whatever they may call themselves), and Pentecostalists (who also sometimes identify as "non-denominational"). When they say they love Catholics, they mean only to convert them, and have absolute contempt otherwise. So, any Catholic, with the sense God gave a goose, would be extremely wary of such allies. Two of the megachurch preachers who really hate Catholics are Robert Jeffress, and John Hagee, both well known trumpsters. These are not people of good will. These vocal Protestants are anti-Catholic bigots, they would not want a second Catholic President, as much as an earlier generation had Norman Vincent Peale, and Billy Graham lead Protestants against John Kennedy. Trump's father had the family listen to Peale weekly, in person, and Donald had him officiate his first marriage. Graham's son, Franklin, is also a trumpster. Jeffress runs the First Baptist Church of Dallas, the first megachurch under the earlier W.A. Criswell, which had Billy Graham as a member, and Ted Cruz as a featured speaker. Criswell often spoke against Kennedy in Dallas, up to his assassination. Criswell later would be president of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Failed Insurrection

Ellsberg is a religious writer with a sharp wit. He has been poking T**** in a continuing series of #TolstoysTalesofTrump. Orange Nero at his insurrectionist rally sent off his minions to attack Congress. He said, he would go with them. T**** watched the event unfold on television instead.

There was this fellow in Germany who led a failed putsch, in prison he dictated a book which his secretary wrote down. The book was titled, „Mein Kampf”; T**** used to keep a copy by his bed. Here are the covers from Germany's leading news MAGAzines.

Some of the motley mob were clowns, as is their god T****.  Others were domestic terrorists, some with military, and police training.

No one should have been surprised. In T****'s insane, inauguration speech, he read the words “American carnage”, and other fanatical, dystopic, bulls**t.

People pointed out how poorly defended the Capitol was, as compared to when Black Lives Matter marched. This photograph was pulled out of the memory files of unidentified forces standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

Other people remarked on how Capitol Police arrested peaceful protestors on many occasions, but arrested so few in the failed coup attempt. Religious people of conviction were especially easy to take into custody.

Fiona Hill was Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European and Russian Affairs. She left before Orange Caligula's telephone call to the President of the Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelinsky.  She did speak candidly and bravely at the impeachment hearing. Fiona Hill spoke to The Daily Beast about January 6th's events: 

“The president was trying to stage a coup. There was little chance of it happening, but there was enough chance that the former defense secretaries had to put out that letter, which was the final nail through that effort. They prevented the military from being involved in any coup attempt. But instead, Trump tried to incite it himself, this could have turned into a full-blown coup had he had any of those key institutions following him. Just because it failed or didn’t succeed doesn’t mean it wasn’t real.”

Fr. James Martin, SJ wrote: 

“Today's violence at the US Capitol, a national disgrace, is the inevitable result of the endless lies about the election spread by President Trump and his supporters.  Here we see the result of these lies, the fruit of sin: anger, hatred, discord, despair and violence. This is what sin does, especially sin on such a large scale.” 
“And by their fruits you will know them” (Mt 7:20).

Some leaders (meaning d/Democrats) took action, in order to stave off more treason, violence, and danger.
 

you can't go elm again

November 3rd 2019. [click for more of that visit]

January 9th 2021. First sunny day of the year. Notice a difference?

Some of the wood grain is visible, tree was planted in 1868. Survived Dutch elm disease 1930s.

English elm stump with man, and two greyhounds.