The
human brain is an amazing thing. It comes fully equipped to enable us to cope
with just about every situation that human beings can find themselves in.
Whether it is logic or emotion you might need, the human brain can provide it.
In
many instances in American history, Americans have shared the same logic and/or
emotion. It is our common thread. For most of us, we get a lump in our throat,
and get a bit choked up when we see our flag flying proudly or hear The
Star-Spangled Banner. We all nod our heads knowingly when we hear an amazing
rags-to-riches success story about someone and we know it could only happen in
a place like America. And we all watched in collective horror that bright,
sunny September morning when three thousand of our fellow citizens were
murdered in a way none of us could have ever fathomed.
Let’s
go back to those days for just a moment. In the days and weeks immediately
following 9/11, Americans bonded together in a way that has rarely been seen.
Flags were hung everywhere, even on personal vehicles. Hyphenated Americans
were hard to find. This atrocity had happened to all of us. We were all
Americans. As in so many other instances, it took a tragedy to remind us of
that.
But
as time passed, something else happened. While no sane rational Americans
wanted to lump innocent people in with the murderers, the people who adhered to
this radical ideology were beginning to be defended. Natural born American
citizens began to convert to Islam, and they began to convert in large numbers.
As more and more of the dark side of this ideology became known, the treatment
of women, child brides, the executions of homosexuals and others who the
ideology deems unacceptable, the more it seems to be defended by people who
only see victims of discrimination. The “can’t we all just get along” crowd
vigorously defends the very people who make no bones about the fact that they
want to kill Americans, any Americans. Why does it appear as if America has a
raging case of Stockholm syndrome?
Stockholm
Syndrome was first named in 1973 after a bank robbery in Stockholm Sweden.
There were hostages taken and they began to inexplicably bond with their
captors.
Perhaps
it was a survival mechanism, perhaps a coping mechanism. Whatever the case,
when the bank robbers went on trial, their former hostages defended them and
refused to testify against them in court.
There
are four key elements that are identified with Stockholm Syndrome. The first,
the hostage’s development of positive feelings towards their captors. Are
Islamic terrorists our captors? Yes, they arrive in this country and proceed to
use our freedom against us. While no rational American will discriminate
against someone for their religion and the freedom to practice it, many
communities who see an influx of Muslim immigrants find that their new
neighbors expect them to adjust to the newcomers instead of the newcomers
assimilating and becoming Americans. The Left it seems will twist themselves
into pretzels in order to assist immigrants into forcing American citizens’
change their way of life.
The
second element is that there is no previous hostage/captor relationship. Prior
to 9/11, the average American may not have been very knowledgeable about Islam
and its teachings. They saw the constant strife in the Middle East, and the
ongoing conflicts between Israel and her neighbors, but the history of those
conflicts were complicated and dated back centuries. Now most Americans can
tell you things like, most Muslims have no love for the Jewish people, and how
women are treated are treated according to the tenets of Islam.
Third,
a refusal by the hostages to cooperate with police and other government
entities. If you ask the average liberal who wants the United States to accept
as many Syrian refugees as possible, the subject of vetting is not high on
their list of priorities. It is where places like sanctuary cities come into
play, and the mayors of those cities doubling down on their insistence that
those cities will refuse to cooperate with authorities.
Finally,
liberal Americans will also go out of their way to humanize the captors. While
no one believes that all Muslims are terrorists, and that the majority of them
just want to come here for a better life for themselves and their families, a
textbook example of this is a statement by former Obama/Clinton State
Department official Marie Harff when she explained that the reason so many
young Muslim men were becoming radicalized and joining terrorist groups was
because of a lack of jobs. While unemployment might be an attempt by the Left to
make us think that would-be Jihadis are just like the rest of us, most
Americans know that young Muslim men join terrorist groups for one reason,
because they believe in the cause.
We
can only hope that with the grown-ups back in charge, America will get over its
case of Stockholm Syndrome.
http://politichicks.com/2017/03/americas-stockholm-syndrome/
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