For several years I worked in a county health care facility. Since I ‘floated’, I often was called to work in one of the psychiatric units. (As a matter of fact, I met my wife on the geriatric psych unit. As I recall, she confused me for a patient and came after me with a syringe load of Thorazine.) At any rate, the conversations with patients on these units were quite strange. Quite often there was no connection at all, either between persons or with any discernable reality in the local environment.

Each of these patients had been seen by numerous psychiatrists and other professionals. Each had a specific diagnosis. It was no surprise, therefore, when their speech, logic, and rationale seemed to originate from a moon of Uranus.

It seems that somewhere along the line these people have been released from our county facility as well as similar facilities around the country. Many appear to have gotten jobs as journalists, blog regularly, and frequently protest loudly the issue de jour. Their environment has changed, but their speech, logic, and rationale remain intact. They are popularly termed moonbats and their speech overflows with emotion and volume, but cannot be understood or reasoned through by average Earthlings.

R.J. Rushdoony predicted their evolutionary arrival in Politics of Guilt and Pity, written 35 years ago. He goes into deep detail, but I would like to excerpt a few statements that would allow the reader to recognize the rise of the moonbats from Uranus.

“The fact of guilt is one of the major realities of man’s existence. Both personally and socially, it is a vast drain on human energies and a mainspring of human action.”

“The human race, in apostasy from God, is deeply involved in a rebellious claim to autonomy and in guilt which follows that claim. As a result of this omnipresent sense of guilt, there is an omnipresent demand for justification.”

“This concern is a demand for salvation: the sinking ego wants to save itself, to find justification by making atonement for its guilt.”

“A common recourse is to self-atonement and self-justification. A modern term for such behavior is masochism.”

“Unconsciously these people inflict punishments on themselves to which an inner court has sentenced them.” (Theodor Reik)

“Masochistic self-punishment in atonement for sin appears in a variety of ways...psychosomatic ailments are a common masochistic recourse... ‘If I suffer enough, I will pay for my sins.’”

“...gambling is a common and popular exercise in masochism.”

“...alcoholism is another form of self-punishment, and marriage to a known alcoholic is similarly masochistic activity.”

“...still another form of masochism is ‘burden-bearing’. The burden-bearer will play the role of public saint in order to atone for private guilt... and the guilty white men will show ‘love’ and ‘concern’ for Negroes and other such persons who are in actuality repulsive and intolerable to them.”

“...’injustice-collecting’ has been rightly described by Reik and Bergler as an important aspect of masochism. The injustice collector systematically finds ‘pleasure in displeasure,’ places himself in positions where he will be sure to feel offended, and then self-righteously sees himself as one sinned against...”

“...the will to failure ...”

“...suicidal activity. Many persons do not reveal their personal masochism, but they do participate in mass masochism through political and economic views and activities calculated to fulfill the urge to mass destruction.” “Victory through defeat becomes the goal.” (Warner) “The politics and the economics of the modern era are increasingly dominated by this ...”

“A form of activity closely related to masochism... is sadism... transfer of guilt to an innocent party. It is a form of revenge...”

“The need for atonement, the need for cleansing, and for purity,...the advertising industry is well aware of it. In 1959, a new soap became a best seller with a very direct television appeal to this hunger for cleansing: ‘For the first time in your life, feel really clean–Use Zest.’”

“In the politics of guilt... he will progressively demand of the state a redemptive role... so that the state, as man enlarged, becomes the human savior of man.”

“Communism has used moral nihilism to prepare the way for passive political slavery: guilty men are more docile slaves.”

“...the caretaker state masks its tyrannical love under the name of ‘social justice.’”

“In the United States, as the nation has departed progressively from God, it has indulged progressively in a ‘debunking’ of its history, in a general confession of many past faults, some often imagined. The hypocrisy of such confession is striking: by confessing the ‘sins’ of past generation, the present scholar or generation thereby implies its own superior virtues and its innocence of the sins. By the fact of such ‘debunking’ or confession, it confesses also, very modestly, that wisdom is now born to us and is among us, ...”

“...the development by systematic indoctrination of a bad conscience. The political cultivation of guilt is a central means to power, for guilty men are slaves; their conscience is in bondage, and hence they are easily make objects of control. Several instances... the white man is being systematically indoctrinated into believing that he is guilty of enslaving and abusing the Negro.”

“... repeatedly assure that American history is a long account of guilt, towards Indian, Negroes, minority groups, labor, Mexico, and ultimately, all the world as well for refusing to enter the League of Nations. This is defective history and perverse politics. Its purpose is the cultivation of guilt in order to produce a submissive populace.”

“... is guilty because he is a Christian... the Christian has no right to his identity. The principles of the atheist must govern state and school...”

“... second form of slavery, state ownership,...”

“The purpose of the U.S. Constitution was to confirm the freedom of the people by binding the new federal government by the chains of the Constitution. The federal government was to be chained so that the people might be free. Today, it is the people who are progressively enslaved.”

“Slave minds...are guilty ones as well, guilt-ridden, shame-ridden and hence hungry for refuge and security... and to have the people themselves demand an end to liberty... their greatest fear is liberty. Freedom imposes an impossible burden upon them.”

“When hell drops out of religion, justice drops out of politics.” (Storrs)

“...false responsibility... men are told that they are guilty if they fail to provide for all the needs of the world.”

“Rebellious man is characterized by what Spengler, with another context in mind, called the ‘dread of reality’... a fear of the real world of God and an insistence that the dream world of reason must supplant it because the dream is the reality... has been the blindest person of the modern world by his studied hostility to the real world...unwillingness to see...intellectual has been unequaled in his insistence on the total equality of all men, while at the same time maintaining that he constitutes the elite which should rule and remake all things.”

“But the claim to exercise universal jurisdiction and the wisdom and ability to exercise this prerogative are two different things. For a man with all the limitations of man to claim to be as God is to indulge in a dangerous fantasy; for a state, with all the limitations of man compounded, but the power of the sword added to it, to claim to be as God is desperately dangerous and suicidal as well.”

Now the moonbats have arisen, from muck to man (with vestigial muck for brains), like 17-year locusts, irritatingly loud in their irrational complainings as cicadas on a warm summer day. Watching their ranting is much like seeing an undisciplined, spoiled brat misbehaving in a grocery store, bringing shame to his mother while annoying all within a several city block area. Evolutionarily speaking, their only hope is passing on their genetics to the next generation under the security of womb-to-tomb government while striving to feel good about themselves and their amoral superiority.