A Threatening Sign Posted At A Burned Residence In Redding, California

A sign posted at a burned residence destroyed by the Carr fire in Redding, California, July 27, 2018.

Alan: Over 50 years ago, the most insightful and best known essay ever written about American history -- "The Paranoid Style In American Politics" -- detailed the bone-deep rationale by which Americans feel not only entitled, but obliged to threaten anyone and everyone with "out-of-the-blue" murder.

With rare exceptions, Americans' ubiquitous threat to kill people is unique to "the land of the free and the home of the brave".  

Even now, despite Trump's revelation of America's true colors, we gringos continue to think of ourselves as the most beneficent people in the history of the world. 

Donald Trump: The Paranoid Style In American Politics And The Ongoing Festival Of Hatred

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/11/donald-trump-paranoid-style-in-american.html

Must-See Video Of New Hampshire State Representative And Trump Supporter, Susan DeLemus

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/12/you-know-how-i-seemed-unhinged-i-am.html

Trump: For The Fearful, Random Decisiveness Is More Attractive Than Wisdom, Prudence, Truth

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/12/trump-for-fearful-random-decisiveness.html

Paranoia, Xenophobia And Racisim: America's Ongoing Festival Of Hatred

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/01/paranoia-xenophobia-and-racism-americas.html

The United States Of America: "We're #1"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-united-states-of-america-were-1.html

Alan: And the greatest crime of World War II was using the atomic bomb -- twice! -- to target urban populations, one of them - Nagasaki - the center of Japanese Christianity.