Stockholm Syndrome

When looking at what has been happening to the West in recent years, it is fair to conclude that the left in the United States and Europe are collectively suffering from a severe case of Stockholm syndrome. Stockholm syndrome is  a psychological response where a captive or abuse victim develops an emotional bond, sympathy, or feelings of loyalty toward their captors. The term was coined by criminologist Nils Bejerot in 1973 following an infamous bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden where hostages were held in a bank vault for six days, and unexpectedly formed emotional attachments to their captors. Following their release, the hostages even defended the perpetrators and refused to testify against them in court. People suffering from Stockholm syndrome develop an emotional attachment, feelings of sympathy, affection, or even love for the abuser; they begin to identify with their captor's goals, demands, or worldview; they harbor anger or resentment toward police, rescuers, or family members who attempt to save them from their captors; and they will minimize or justify the abuser's cruel actions.

We see this psychological phenomenon play  itself out with many people on the left. Western countries are being invaded by Third World Middle Eastern Muslims who hate our countries, hate our culture, hate the citizens of the countries. They want to conquer our countries, convert our culture into theirs and eventually eliminate all non-Muslim people from Western countries. That has been the pattern that the Muslims have followed when conquering 55 other countries around the world. They did not come here to assimilate, they came to conquer, and the people on the left are not only allowing it to happen, they are assisting in their own subjugation and elimination.

Inexplicably, the left has developed feelings of sympathy for these Muslim conquerors. 250,000 young white British girls have been raped in the last 10 years in the United Kingdom by Muslim grooming gangs, and no one in authority does a thing about it. They just let it happen, as if that is normal, and if anyone speaks out against Muslim immigrants raping young British girls, they are labelled Islamophobic, and the Muslim rapists become the victims. The left is more interested in protecting the invaders than their own citizens. 85% of women murdered in Ireland so far this year have been murdered by foreign Third World migrants, and the leftist politicians in Ireland are more concerned about what will happen to these migrants if they are forced to stay in their native country, than they are about protecting Irish women from being murdered by migrants.

18-year-old British citizen Henry Nowak was stabbed repeatedly by Vickrum Digwa – a Sihk whose mother was from India. The British police officers on the scene, handcuffed Nowak and allowed him to bleed to death, because Digwa falsely claimed that Nowak made a racist remark against him. The white British man who was repeatedly stabbed by the son of an immigrant was immediately cast as the villain, and the murdering immigrant was seen as the victim. Another white man is killed and no one cares because the left sympathizes more with the immigrant attacker than with the victim.

Last week, Minnesota Governor, Tim Walz, pardoned a Laotian illegal immigrant Tou Lue Vang who was convicted of repeatedly sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl in Minnesota. Walz minimized the rape as a “minor thing” and then justified it by calling child rape “cultural norms” in foreign countries. Walz wanted to protect the illegal immigrant rapist from being deported, so he pardoned him. To justify his pardon, Walz said, “I find no reason how Minnesota is safer or better if Tou Lue Vang is deported to a country that he has not been to since he was a child.” Walz was more concerned about protecting the illegal immigrant rapist than he was about protecting young Minnesota girls from being raped by the illegal immigrant rapist.

The left has demonized ICE, and the police because they are the ones who are detaining and deporting violent criminal aliens who they have developed that emotional attachment to. Rene Goode and Alex Pretti are dead right now because they attacked and tried to kill the ICE agents who were in the process of removing violent illegal aliens from the country. The left wants to defund the police and eliminate ICE, simply because they are risking their lives to make our country safer from immigrants who have committed violent crimes against our citizens. 

The left has started to identify with the goals, demands, and worldview of the Muslim conquerors. Muslims commit a massive terrorist attack in Israel on October 7, 2023, murdering 1,400 innocent people, and the left in the West take the side of the Muslims. Days after that horrific terrorist attack, many leftists marched and protested for “Free Palestine” and chanted “From the River to the Sea”, thus painting the victims of the terrorist attacks [the Jews] as the villains, and the villains [the Muslims] as the victims. The left always takes the side of the Muslims, and completely ignores the victims of Islamic violence. Whenever there is an Islamic terrorist attack, the first thing the left warns about is Islamophobia and the threat of white supremacy. They never criticize the Muslim jihadist worldview which motivates these murderous attacks.

The left is constantly rationalizing, minimizing and even justifying the violent actions of Muslims or illegal immigrants in our country. We are constantly told by the left that Islam is the “religion of peace” when we know the exact opposite is true. 1,400 years of history and present-day events prove that Islam is the most violent, intolerant and hateful religion on the face of the Earth – and it is not even close. There have been over 65,000 Islamic inspired terrorist attacks since 1980, every other religion combined has committed less than 100. But the left will bring up the Crusades or slavery, or call Israel colonizers to make a moral equivalence to the extreme violence of Islam.

The West is being conquered by Islamists whose goal is a worldwide caliphate, and it is being allowed to happen because the leftist who control our media, education system, and half of our politics are suffering from a severe case of Stockholm syndrome. They continue to side with the invaders and conquerors and reject those who are trying to protect our country, and by the time they come to their senses it will be too late to save our country and the West.

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Mr. Garrett is a graduate of Princeton University, and a former NFL player, coach, and executive. He has been a contributor to the website Real Clear Politics. He has recently published his first novel, No Wind.