Aug. 27, 2019 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| It's kind of an insult to clowns to call it clown world. | |
| I mean clowns serve the dual purpose of entertaining children and terrifying adults. | |
| Clowns almost single-handedly prop up the market for rubber noses, for giant shoes, for lapel flowers that squirt water, and for the production of mostly incomprehensible lower intestine balloon animals. | |
| In the aforementioned clown world, though, we come to its host and perhaps king, Brian Stelter, CNN host, and frankly an insult to solar-powered sex machine bald guys everywhere. | |
| Because August 25th, Brian Stelter opened his show by asking if President Trump suffers from mental illness and saying, well, we just can't tiptoe around it anymore. | |
| And he had a couple of guests on. | |
| One of them was this guy, Dr. | |
| Alan Francis, former Duke Psychiatry Chair And I guess someone who's... | |
| He's a real expert on mental illness, right? | |
| Dr. Francis actually chaired the committee that produced the DSM-IV, a past Bible of mental health diagnoses, right? | |
| So, I mean, psychiatrists have a problem because, first of all, talking to people, talk therapy, I think is fantastically helpful, but it's kind of time-consuming and it's kind of challenging. | |
| So psychiatrists, instead, what they do in general is they make up a bunch of mythical... | |
| Metaphorical-based divisions in the human condition, and they pretend that those things have anything to do with any objective medical condition. | |
| There is, of course, no medical test for this supposed imbalance of chemicals in the brain because, you know, it's more profitable to drug people rather than talk to them. | |
| You can just get through people a lot faster. | |
| So this guy, total expert on mental health and mental illness. | |
| So, we had two guests on, this Dr. | |
| Francis and Dr. Bandy Exley. | |
| She is the Yale psychiatrist who briefed members of Congress in January 2018 and said the president has exhibited dangerous signs that required intervention by medical professionals. | |
| So, yeah, these are people who are attempting to use mostly made-up mental health categorizations as a way of performing a psychiatric coup on a duly elected president. | |
| So, yeah, seems pretty bad, right? | |
| Now, based upon something that happened in the past, a couple decades ago, there's something called the Goldwater Rule. | |
| This is based upon, there was this Arizona politician named Barry Goldwater who had the temerity to suggest that the government should not be so big and that public sector unions had gotten way too powerful and that America should not pursue endless wars overseas for the benefit of others. | |
| And as a result, a bunch of psychiatrists called him insane. | |
| Now, you know, anytime you talk about shrinking the government, there are a whole bunch of piglets hanging off the teats of the state, and among those are psychiatrists who get a lot of money from the government for drugging the population instead of generally talking to them. | |
| So, yeah, you're not going to do too well if you talk about shrinking the state and have any kind of potential effect with that. | |
| They'll call you crazy, right? So, the 37,000-member American Psychiatric Association has banned psychiatrists from diagnosing patients that they haven't examined. | |
| You just can't go around calling public figures crazy if you haven't examined them. | |
| The APA said in a blog post that, quote, member psychiatrists should not give professional opinions about the mental state of someone they have not personally examined, right? | |
| It's a really bad ethical piece of misconduct, right? | |
| So, this guy, Dr. | |
| Francis, the former Duke Psychiatry chairman, told CNN... That he was opposed to doctors breaking the Goldwater Rule because calling President Trump mentally ill was an insult to the mentally ill population, you see. | |
| This is what he said. | |
| Well, I think medicalizing politics has three very dire consequences. | |
| The first is that it stigmatizes the mentally ill. | |
| I have known thousands of patients, almost all of them well-behaved, well-mannered, good people. | |
| Trump is none of those. | |
| Sorry, none of these. Lumping, that is a terrible insult to the mentally ill. | |
| And they have enough problems and stigma as it is. | |
| Second, calling Trump crazy hides the fact that we're crazy for having elected him and even crazier for allowing his crazy policies to persist. | |
| And here's... The money shot man. | |
| He said this. Trump is as destructive a person in this century as Hitler, Stalin, Mao in the last century. | |
| He may be responsible for many more million deaths than they were. | |
| And this guy helped define or was core to defining mental health and mental illness for an entire generation. | |
| I mean, obviously he's referring Hitler. | |
| You know Stalin. Mao. | |
| Mao was the chairman of the Communist Party in China from 1943 when communists in the U.S. State Department helped put him into power until his death in 1976. | |
| Chairman Mao is credited with having killed as many as 45 million people. | |
| Stalin killed almost 20 million people in labor camps, and 11 million people were killed by Hitler and the Nazis during the Holocaust, and so on. | |
| This is the guy who's put forward, who's an expert on mental health and mental illness, saying that Donald Trump is not just as bad as Hitler, saying that Donald Trump is not just as bad as Hitler, is not just as bad as Mao, is not just as bad as | |
| but he's as bad as all of them put together. |
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