"Perhaps nothing so accurately characterizes dysfunctional families as denial. The denial forces members to keep believing the myths and vital lies in spite of the facts, or to keep expecting that the same behaviors will have different outcomes." 

—John Bradshaw

As everyone knows, there are thousands of books, memoirs, and fiction, about dysfunctional families.  To paraphrase Tolstoy, happy families are generally the same, but unhappy families are each unhappy in their own way.  But to peruse the plethora of such books, it might be truer that unhappy families are unhappy in much the same ways, their differences a matter of degrees.  Young children know only what they know, how their own family functions.  Memoirs like Educated and The Glass Castle, for example, are shocking to those fortunate enough to have had loving, peaceful, and essentially normal childhoods if there is such a thing.  While dysfunctional homes can produce and have produced successful children who, as gradually exposed to the homes of other families and the outside world, saved themselves by sheer will and talent.  But most children of dysfunctional families are forever damaged, condemned to a life of misery and distorted reality.  They remain resistant to the facts of life that govern the world around them.  They are perpetually angry and unhappy. 

The Democrat party as currently constituted, at least its leadership, seems to be blighted by the latter sort; Democrats are convinced that only their chosen "facts" can be true.  Thus their stubborn conviction that President Trump colluded with Russia and that he has committed a host of other crimes, none of which has been shown to be true.  In fact, the Russian collusion/Mueller investigation has been revealed to be a colossal hoax perpetrated by a faction of treasonous high-level bureaucrats drunk with the power they chose to abuse.  This group of traitors believed themselves to be more qualified to select the president than voters, so they set about creating an insurance policy: the Steele dossier and the grand international plan than came with it. 

The House Dems' articles of impeachment are pathetic, without any legitimate substantiation, which must be why Pelosi has refused to submit them to the Senate.  Adam Schiff has been thoroughly discredited by his anti-Trump mania and litany of egregious lies.  Like damaged children, they are all in denial.  Pelosi apparently believes that by holding her breath and sticking her fingers in her ears, her narrative of collusion and subsequent impeachment will prevail, and the president will be removed from office or, at the very least, his re-election prevented.  Why her colleagues in the House have not moved to remove her is a sad testament to their cowardice.  They surely know she has declined mentally and is destroying their brand.

So demented by their party's dysfunctional "family values," each and every Democrat running for the presidency along with every other Democrat in office denounced the president for the targeted killing of the most genocidal terrorist of nearly three decades.  The list of Soleimani's atrocities is stunning; why was this man not taken out years ago?  Obama designated him a terrorist but just gave Iran billions of dollars to fund further terrorism.

Now, rendered senseless by Trump's many successes, the Dems have pledged their support for open borders, sanctuary cities, gun confiscation, no cash bail, no criminal charges for quality of life malfeasance, and no killing of genocidal terrorists!  They have revealed themselves to be pro-Iran and anti-American.  They support anything and everything that even hints at traditional American or constitutional values and/or anything Trump supports, like a secure southern border. 

San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York are no longer cities anyone wants to inhabit.  Those who can are leaving.  These cities have been ruined by homelessness and crimes that go unprosecuted.  In New York, members of the Black Hebrew Israelites can assault Jews with impunity, with the blessing of Mayor de Blasio.  The Democrat party, once joined at the hip with black Americans for the advancement of civil rights, is now the party of brazen anti-Semitism.  The Democrat party has bowed to, or been cowed, by the vicious anti-Semitism of Ocasio-Cortez, Tlaib, and Ilhan Omar.  This fact, more than all the others, is the most obvious symptom of the Democrats' dysfunction.  They have made common cause with those who hate Jews and Israel; they pander to radical Muslims.  Even the Democrat Jewish members of Congress have joined the pro-Islam, anti-Israel camp.  Is not anti-Semitism, like racism, a form of mental illness born of dysfunctional families who inculcate these diseases in their children?

"The more dysfunctional, the more some family members seek to control the behavior of others" (David W. Earle).  This bit of truth further proves the left's dysfunction since it is the Democrat party that seeks to control nearly every aspect of our lives and how we live them: the size of sodas, our use of straws, the cars we drive, the food we eat, etc.  They mean to strip us of our Second Amendment rights, restrict our land and water use.  They have inflicted the crimes of the homeless and illegal migrants upon us and continue to refuse to hold those people responsible for their illegal acts.  That by itself is a sign of malicious dysfunction, the purposeful destruction of once-great cities.  Because of the mounting damage it incurs, the Democrat party has effectively become an enemy of the American people.  "Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. They have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin" (David W. Earle).  The Democrats are systematically destroying the quality of life for millions of Americans, which is why President Trump was elected — to stop them.

At the moment, Iran is "retaliating" for the Soleimani strike by lobbing missiles at a couple of air bases in Iraq, some of which have failed.  There have been no casualties so far, which suggests that this is face-saving bluster.  Their foreign minister, Javad Zarif, has tweeted, "That's it."  They likely believe President Trump now when he warns against killing Americans.

The Democrats are excited.  They think Trump's action will lead to an unwanted war and destroy his presidency.  That is what they want: dead Americans!  That is how truly mentally disturbed they are; that is how much they hate the most successful president since Reagan.  They are beyond dysfunctional.  They are well and truly unhinged.  The country needs protection from them, for they mean us all great harm.

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