The New Old American Snake Oil

4/7/2026
1 min read
By Bruce R. Long

The kind of delusional idiocy Paula White is a part of is every bit as deleterious to a free, progressive, happy, and (ironically) prosperous society as the Islamic hate cult with its anti-unbeliever bigotry and hate doctrines.

It's a testament to the ludicrous nature of US culture that this nutjob White is extremely wealthy. Many far more capable people are not. That aberration is due to suicidal freedom of religion. https://t.co/rb6xMGDAQI

— Bruce R. Long (@brucerdity) April 5, 2026


If anything, White's lunacy is more insidious and sly, and ultimately more destructive. She's one of Voltaires scoundrel's par excellence.


People can sense when their nation is overrun by snake oil salespeople. They're able to sense that the fideist nonsense people like White sell (for a handsome income) is not really solving even personal, subjective psychological issues, but only complicating and sublimating them under layers of confusing, embarrassing - and ultimately unsatisfying and ineffectual - booby-prize bullshit.


When a nation of young people is trained and programmed to be duped by such delusional tripe - which involves not just perpetual suspension of disbelief but being actually split from reality - it's no wonder the 2008 housing bubble was easy for crooks to do to them.

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