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Blame Reagan For America's Persecution Complex, Victim Mentality and Decline

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Persecution complex is, in late 20th and 21st Century America, a perception of hostility and ill-treatment at the hands of "the other" because of race, political, or religious beliefs, and is very closely related, if not engendered by, what psychologists refer to as Victim mentality. Victim mentality is rampant among evangelicals, white supremacists, and angry conservatives who acquired (learned) what they regard as a highly-valued personality trait. Americans were not always, and did not consider themselves, weak and terrified victims of imagined negative actions of "the other," but to hear them wail and moan, that is certainly the case. This is regardless there is no clear evidence they have suffered anything and in fact, have been empowered to persecute and victimize other Americans through their religious and economic legislative arm; the Republican Party.
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Dennis Kaiser is an author and consultant focusing on individual rights. As a US citizen Dennis is deeply concerned over how our nation has fallen from being productive and full of hope to one where that hope is being stripped from the majority (more...)
 

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