(53) Democracy and Human Rights

Enough is enough, I stand in the fight for Democracy and the human rights that the constitution of this great country is founded on and stands for. A country founded on the idea that all men are created equal. This includes accounting for the individuality of each person, and the unique contributions that they have to offer. This is a far cry from the atrocities that happened under the absolute power in the reign of the Hitler regime. During this time of history, a large-scale genocide took place onto the Jewish people (women and children) when the group was generalized and condemned as a whole, which lacked any kind of individuality, and instead seen as unfit, unhuman, and not deserving to live. Scary thing it was actually the leader and the men under him that acted in these atrocities that were unfit and mentally ill. After the war Adolf Eichmann a major orchestrator of the holocaust surprised all in the court hearings, because his appearance was portrayed as a normal person, a family man, and someone that it would be hard to believe that would be capable of such injustice and wrongdoing.

The eugenics movement a movement that took place here in the United States during the 20th century was a method to improve humanity by institutionalizing, and/or sterilizing people in an effort to prevent the reproduction of heritable characteristics that were regarded as undesirable. During this movement the power and privileged made the choice of who fit this bill, which eventually generalized many people as mentally unfit. It started with mentally challenged people, which were labeled as imbeciles but slowly spread and escalated to include the unemployed, alcoholics, prostitutes and homosexuals. A faulty logic that was increasingly discredited as unscientific, inhumane, and a way to control and get rid of those seen as unfit in society. It is a good thing that these practices do not exist today, or do they? Many people question that the democracy of this nation is at stake and that a cultural war may be escalating. Is frustration and the lack of unacceptance of others becoming so vast that many fear has escalated to hatred and violence being played out in a modern day hidden and covert civil war. Two examples of this were the Hitler regime eugenics logic, and when people were attacked as those that were not seen as human and not belonging, therefore people acted on this discontent.

These events are subtle reminders of the sufferings that may people before us had to experience, endure, many not surviving, and it is because of the pain that they experienced that these events and atrocities should never be forgotten. It reminds us to use introspection to understand ourselves, to be empathic of others, and to never take a position that lacks human dignity by ignoring the human condition and the diversity of difference that we all come from. This is where experience and individual differences meet which is what makes up the greatest part of the nation and the democracy that supports it. That is the unique contributions that each and every one of us human beings have to offer.

So, who gets to make the choice of who belongs or not? If people become discounted in their worth by other members of society, then how do we prevent behaviors from being judged harshly for example, from being mistaken as violating a cultural norm versus growing pains versus pathology. Behaviors are often a symptom of an underlying causal mechanism and to pinpoint where behaviors come from before they are judged harshly proper procedure must be followed by an authorized representative that utilizes assessment, criteria, so that an effective treatment plan can be followed. This is the experience that leads to, comes from, and is articulated by case studies. This is where reliable and valid variables and factors are derived from to prevent skewed results and ideologies that have led to pseudoscience and biased thinking of the past. Incorporating logic that lacks sound principles by generalizing and categorizing people to groups and promoting exclusionary practices that they do not belong is unjust and lacks the principles of what this country was founded on. These types of practices need to stop. The above examples exemplify that this type of thinking is from tension and frustrations that stem from biased thinking that can escalate in extreme thinking and an ill-informed logic that discounts people from a higher purpose and instead contributes to cruelty and violence. It also stems away from extremes that are based on rules and compliance through an authoritarian lens and America is not a autocracy ran by authoritarian ideologies and extremes. We are a bright nation that is an example that the entire world relies on. This experiment has been ongoing for 200 years now, and it is very important to not be swayed and lean away from what the values and principles of this Great nation stand for.

Leaders cannot steer away from the constitution, human rights, and criminalize people when their ideologies or the status quo has not been met. This just might be due to irrational biased views that lack accounting for the big picture or utilizing outside resources to understand a situation or scenarios through another professional’s perspective. When going to extremes skewing all results to lean one way to favor one’s own views, opinions, or agenda without taking account of the variables and factors of the human condition that may contrast the extreme being taken is a biased, closed-minded view that lacks the professionalism of conscientiousness, agreeableness, or being open to another point of view. This is not democracy, this it is not fair, nor is this just it is negligent. Negligence is lacking what experience one could otherwise gain or offer from the context of any given situation, which then just becomes a waste of time and resources in a fight just to be right. When neglect becomes commonplace so does ignorance. This is what contributes to the frustration and tensions that invokes the very aggression, hatred, and violence that it promotes.

This is what happens with an externally driven egotistical person- circular reasoning and a disordered personality that lacks healthy coping mechanisms in place of a host of defense mechanisms. For example, denial, displaced aggression, cannot be wrong, knows it all, filled with anger acted out in vindication, hatred, and sadism. The person is driven to engage in adverse behaviors that are risky from a lack of impulse control then becomes addicted to the behaviors due to the buzz of the anticipation and surprise that it gives them a good buzz away from the neurosis. In a place of power they just want more and more and they become more and more extreme.

Food for thought killing a person is murder, but when you kill a person because you tie them to a group it is a genocide.