There are honest, decent Liberals belonging to the Democratic Party who still believe that the old principles of democratic liberalism are operative in that party. They are idealists who cannot use their eyes to see the massive destructive changes that have taken place in that party such as, for example, the shift of the political mainstream to the extreme left that has occurred in the last 60 years.
These are people frozen in time who, because of their ocular pathology, still believe that social and political conditions are somehow the same or better than they were back in the 1950s. From an individual viewpoint, their idealism is dangerous because it prevents them from seeing the reality of today’s social degradation. From a social viewpoint, their blindness to what is happening in the world of American politics supports and encourages the far-left ideologues who now are gaining control of the Democratic Party to carry on their socialistic destructiveness.
For these true liberals, their political ship, the Democratic Party, is sinking and they have no life raft to save them. Their only hope of saving their Party is dissociating from the far-left, pseudo liberal radicals that they are associated with, seeing them for the emotional plague characters that they are and reestablishing a relationship of attractive opposition with the Republican Party as before. Short of this happening, the only other outcome is that the Party becomes fragmented into a European Style, multiparty system.
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The Emotional Plague
Charles Konia, M.D. 
Isn’t the basic problem the Red Guard Gang of Four radicals are universally considered far from being emotional plague characters but, rather, VICTIMS of the emotional plague, i.e., victims of racism, “classism”, sexism, neo-colonialism, whateverBSism?! And on the other side Trump is considered irrational, anti-life, and plain evil, the arch-enemy of work-democracy and genitality. How to handle this? I mean, there are, for lack of a better term, “anti-Konias” running around (some of them throwing around Reich-quotes). How to deal with this obnoxious “anti-matter orgonomy”? In a way everything associated with the word “orgonomy” has the same problem as the Democratic Party.
You are right. The plague has a life of it’s own and is protected by this kind of logic of the armored human beings that perpetuate it. We have to keep looking at how to get through.
Dr. Konia, can the true liberal in the Democratic Party have their “Tea Party” to revive the base and throw off the far left”s brain hegemony?
Dr. Konia, can the true liberals, in the Democratic Party, have their “Tea Party”, (which helped paved the way for Trump), and so revive the base and throw off the far-left”s left brain hegemony and recover the felt sense of the body? Would moving their eyes slowly as they sense the resistance to the movement, help release the tension or at least make them aware of it? rganic change can only safely occur through awareness.
I don’t believe that such a change can occur with politicians. They are too set in their ways.
Dr. Konia, can the true liberals, in the Democratic Party, have their “Tea Party”, (which helped paved the way for Trump), and so revive the base and throw off the far-left”s left brain hegemony and recover the felt sense of the body? Would moving their eyes slowly as they sense the resistance to the movement, help release the tension or at least make them aware of it through feeling it? Can organic change only safely occur through this awareness?