God, I remember that from Vietnam. A Buddhist monk set himself on fire to protest where Diem was taking Vietnam. A few months later a military coup overthrew Diem with an OK from the US government. The US never understood that Vietnam was 5 front war, and made the same mistake with Cambodia. It wasn't just the communist but traditional values Vs progressive values within. That internal struggle made it easy for the communist to prevail.
Is the same thing happening in the US? Our inability to embrace both traditional values and progressive values at the same time? That only one can prevail?
@BizSuitStacy that was my first thought. The experiments on how to create the MK Ultra mind control sleepers were conducted on young children started at age 3 in mental institutions in various cities across the USA. Including the one in my city. The man who was the head of the program was a psychologist who was raised here, his father a professor at the university. I don’t know if this was the first hospital or not. He invented the personality assessment test that is still being used today. The first people they did experiments on were transients who loved to pretend to be mental to get checked into the hospital to get free room & board during the coldest months of the year. Then they switched over to children, some of who were their own grandchildren, born to their daughters who were not married at the time. They’d take them and tell the mothers that they would be adopted out.
@cherokeepatti it's about the only thing that makes sense. The guy is an anarcho-communist who supports Obama & Bernie Sanders...but also thought Biden and Trump were in cahoots together on a fascist takeover of America. So he sets himself on fire? Oh...and he survives. Oops. I had a hunch he wouldn't "make it."
@MrBrownstone He was on fire quite a while. I don’t know how he could survive that. Some type of flammable liquid was also poured on the pavement near him and was burning.
@MarineBob It would be good if people with mental issues would get better medical treatment. Just giving drugs and sending them on their way is not good.
