“The antidote for political psychosis is prudence.” John Johnson II 01/07 26
By John Johnson II
Political psychosis is not a recognized medical condition. Psychology Today reports that social scientists view it as a societal phenomenon of shared delusions. Furthermore, it describes a sustained detachment from shared reality/norms, marked by irrational behavior, the spread of misinformation, vindictive thinking, and the collapse of effective governance. Today, this condition is most clearly visible in the Republican Congress, where ideology has eclipsed reason, loyalty has displaced law, and constitutional duty traded for political survival.
The first symptom is the rejection of factual and scientific evidence. On health care, affordability, tariffs, and economic security, Republican lawmakers abandon data provided by experienced economists in favor of misinformation. Health care now is framed as a culture-war battleground rather than a human necessity. Tariffs become patriotic tools. Economic pain is dismissed, denied, or perversely justified as collateral damage in an ideological crusade.
Paranoia follows close behind. Democratic institutions face labeling as enemies. Elections are legitimate only when Republicans prevail. Courts maintained respect only when they comply. The press becomes “the opposition.” Federal agencies face labeling as conspirators. This persecutory worldview defends Congress from responsibility.
A dangerous expression of political psychosis is congressional silence, fear, and surrender. Any congressperson—or group of congresspersons—who concedes their constitutional powers to the Executive Branch violates their Constitutional Oath. In other words, Congress becomes co-conspirators when a president rejects alliances, violates international law, and disregards the U.S. Constitution.
The American people may need to look in the mirror because Republican Congresspersons may believe that we the people instead are delusional. Do they believe we do not know right from wrong and will accept the immoral murder of defenseless survivors clinging to the side of a partially destroyed boat? Should we not question why the President invaded Venezuela, kidnapped the President and his wife, and announced that members of his Cabinet will run this Country? Why was the wife kidnapped? Does the behavior of a Country’s President make the wife a coconspirator? She is not an elected Official.
Or was the invasion of Venezuela merely an attempt to redirect attention from further release of the Epstein files? Is our democracy facing dismantling by the President, the Republican-controlled Congress, and a complicit Supreme Court? Or will the world’s most powerful President acknowledge that America is even stronger as a republic, united with its allies,’ and govern with “prudence?” Additionally, will he recalibrate and chart a new course of peace and prosperity for every American? What does history say?
The famous quote by George Santayana, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” This quote in of itself characterizes a sign of political psychosis. Remember past leaders such as Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini whose pursuit of vast dominance using wars led to the destruction of their Nations. Is it not a sign of political psychosis to kidnap another Country’s president and then declare to be its new ruler? Did we not learn anything from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars which really were senseless struggles.
Seriously America, is the Republican Congress not repeating past blunders due to political psychosis? Republicans’ abdication is not accidental. It is deliberate. Oversight becomes betrayal. Silence becomes strategy. The separation of powers erodes from within, not by force, but by cowardice. A Congress that refuses to restrain executive overreach is not conservative, it is complicit. Regrettably, America continues to ignore signs of political psychosis even when people deprived of health care and food subsidies may die needlessly.
A Congress detached from reality cannot govern. A Congress afraid of accountability cannot defend democracy. Political psychosis is not merely eroding American institutions—it is consuming those sworn to protect them.
YOU BE THE JUDGE!
