There is no reason not to be paranoid in American today.
I've never been the paranoid type, I was trained from childhood into adulthood from search and rescue to the military, how to handle stress and uniquely disturbing situations and I've lived through some very paranoia evoking situations and times.
The paranoia we feel of late isn't irrational—it's simple recognition.
SO much of commentary on Donald Trump since at least 2016 has merely BEEN simple recognition and dissemination which evoked calls of "Trump hater" or "TDS" from his surrogates, sycophants and adoring low information (high disinformation) personality cult followers.
But none of this is this isn’t hypothetical. It’s observable:
- Judicial independence weakened through loyalty tests and policy documents like Project 2025.
- Militarization of federal power for political revenge.
- Propaganda and disinformation replacing policy.
- Religious nationalism creeping into law and education.
- Stochastic terrorism inflamed by his rhetoric.
Just remember...
You’re not paranoid.
You’re paying attention.
As psychologist Robert Jay Lifton once said:
“The most totalist of totalitarian movements seek to control every aspect of a person’s inner life—even the capacity to think for oneself—so that conscience itself becomes subject to ideological domination.”
— Robert Jay Lifton, "Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism"
What we're witnessing is an orchestrated erosion of that conscience—backed by cult-like loyalty and systemic sabotage.
The bottom line?
So long as Trump’s cult and its weaponized Christian nationalism endure, paranoia isn’t irrational—it’s the cost of vigilance in a democracy under siege.
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