One of the safeguards against the emotional plague in the past authoritarian era was the idea of the presumption of innocence. In those days, a person was presumed to be innocent until he was legally proven to be guilty in a court of law.
With the anti-authoritarian transformation of society, the emotional plague has broken through the social surface and this requirement is no longer necessary. Today, a public figure is more often than not assumed to be guilty as soon as he is charged with a crime. This change in the belief of being automatically responsibile for criminal behavior once charged is the result of the invasion of the emotional plague into the social mainstream in today’s anti-authoritarian society. It is now becoming an everyday matter to charge and identify someone as a criminal simply by accusing him of a crime.
A recent example of the use of this tactic was the political Left’s attempt to destroy the Trump Presidency. This is a favorite trick used by today’s leftist ideologues and their media that goes back to the days of the French Revolution. All that was needed in those days to send someone to the guillotine was to accuse a person of the “crime” of being Loyal to the King. See The French Revolution and the Emotional Plague in the upcoming (volume 52\2) issue of The Journal of Orgonomy. The emotional plague is alive and well in today’s world just as it was in 18th Century France when the French King and Queen were murdered by fanatic, leftist mobs.
Neither Left Nor Right
The Emotional Plague
Charles Konia, M.D. 