What the heck is going on in the heads of these people??
Labour deputy leadership-hopeful Angela Rayner 'pretty upset' at Tony Blair's transgender comments
Sky News 21 Feb 2020
"Ms Rayner said she was "absolutely petrified" that there were party members who "think somehow some elements of our Labour Party do not think they are valid or somehow there is a question about who they should be"."
news.sky.com/story/labour-deputy-leadership-hopeful-angela-rayner-pretty-upset-at-tony-blairs-transgender-comments-11939128
"absolutely petrified" ???
Really?? Why??
She sounds completely deranged!
(That sentence is grammatically deranged but we get the gist.)
I could understand if she had said, "she was "absolutely petrified" that there were party members who "think somehow it is a good idea to lock rapists up with vulnerable women"."
or
"she said she was "absolutely petrified" that party members like herself had been hypnotised into "thinking somehow it is a good idea to remove all sex-based protections from women"."
Are Rayner, Long-Bailey, Dawn Butler, Nandy and the rest all in the grip of something like "Stockholm Syndrome"??
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF STOCKHOLM SYNDROME
It may be easier to understand Stockholm syndrome as an actual survival strategy for victims. This is because it seems to increase victims’ chances of survival and is believed to be a necessary tactic for defending psychologically and physically against experiencing an abusive, toxic, and controlling relationship. Stockholm syndrome is often found in toxic relationships where a power differential exists, such as between a parent and child or spiritual leader and congregant. Some signs of Stockholm syndrome include:
- Positive regard towards perpetrators of abuse or captors.
- Failure to cooperate with police and other government authorities when it comes to holding perpetrators of abuse or kidnapping accountable.
- Little or not effort to escape.
- Belief in the goodness of the perpetrators or kidnappers.
- Appeasement of captors. This is a manipulative strategy for maintaining one’s safety. As victims get rewarded—perhaps with less abuse or even with life itself—their appeasing behaviors are reinforced.
- Learned helplessness. This can be akin to “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.” As the victims fail to escape the abuse or captivity, they may start giving up and soon realize it’s just easier for everyone if they acquiesce all their power to their captors.
- Feelings of pity toward the abusers, believing they are actually victims themselves. Because of this, victims may go on a crusade or mission to “save” their abuser.
- Unwillingness to learn to detach from their perpetrators and heal. In essence, victims may tend to be less loyal to themselves than to their abuser.
www.goodtherapy.org/blog/why-stockholm-syndrome-happens-and-how-to-help-0926184
I know this has been posted already in the threads about Lisa Nandy but Malcolm Clark's brief spin through a history of "contagious emotions" and "social delusions", the "madness of crowds" looks familiar too:
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1229539824031485952.html
There is no way all these MPs, not just in the Labour Party, are all smitten with the "queer agenda". They just seem oblivious to it, sleepwalking. Some of them are lawyers FFS but seem blinkered by their focus on a tiny minority, incapable of a breadth of vision that would allow them to pay attention to the society-wide ramifications and consequences of proposed legislative changes.
The only thing that might save the day, so we do not end up like the totalitarian mess that is Canada, is that more and more people are asking questions and they are struggling to answer logically and reasonably. Their cognitive dissonance is showing and it must hurt.
Maybe that is what accounts for Angela Rayner's panic, the real reason she is "absolutely petrified", and the flat-out batshit crazy pronouncements of the famously "sensible" Lisa Nandy?
I can't see Rebecca Long-Bailey or Dawn Butler clawing their way back to rationality somehow, too far gone into the mind-warp. They make me think of last-century TV interviews with once-upon-a-time debutants, simpering in their dotage over the good old days when "dear Adolf" was such a flirt!