We keep saying that no bill authored by a Democrat should ever make it out of committee in the Louisiana Legislature without a Republican co-author. And we keep finding examples of why this is true.

C. Denise Marcelle is one of the most toxic, far-left, thuggish people ever to poison the Louisiana legislature. Marcelle is one of the most vociferous advocates for gang and thug culture in the Louisiana legislature, and has been that since before she was elected – Marcelle was toxic on the Baton Rouge Metro Council before winning her current House seat.

This isn’t a controversial opinion, though it sounds like it might be. Go and talk to the legislators and they’ll tell you nobody at that capitol building is less enjoyable to spend time with than Marcelle.

All she does is hate. And everything she does is sinister. Including, by the way, the “candlelight vigil” Marcelle is staging tonight at the Mall of Louisiana for the victims of the thug culture she champions in the Legislature. That’s an open provocation of the people the thug culture is driving away from the mall. It’s a not-subtle declaration that the Mall of Louisiana is Denise Marcelle’s turf from now on, and if you don’t like it, then you’re a racist.

When there are a whole lot of black people who hate the thug culture and reject Denise Marcelle’s politics. But of course, they don’t matter; like it or not they’re going to get lumped in with her thug-culture pals. That’s how this works.

So we have ballers showing up at the Mall of Louisiana, holding their Glocks sideways and spraying down the food court with bullets because somebody got “disrespected,” and we’ve also got people who believe the things Denise Marcelle believes trying to bum-rush the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in an effort to spray down Donald Trump and the White House cabinet. The Left is utterly sick with its infatuation with violence and barbarity, and the rest of us can’t understand why.

We found something lodged in the gears of the Wayback Machine which provides one possible answer. The Democratic Socialists, who have generally taken over the Democrat Party – and Denise Marcelle is on board with EVERYTHING they espouse, to be sure – have been pushing this for a while.

The Revolution Must Be Trauma-Informed

When we envision the world we’re fighting to create, we must prioritize the impact of trauma in our organizing work.

by Josh Lown – Fall 2018

In our talk of revolution, political or otherwise, much of the discussion tends to center around the economic effects on individuals and communities. Spending the past six years working in the nonprofit social services sector, however, has shown me another prominent and important, though less discussed factor: the loss of sense of self and safety as a result of a capitalist economy. This is trauma, but it’s not well understood.

If our ultimate goal as activists is to build a democratic and socialist society, the avenue we must take to get there cannot be solely relegated to the political arena. Putting a narrow focus on gaining power through politics runs the risk of ignoring our communities and those we claim to fight for. The revolution will only truly be won through community engagement, community building, and community consciousness; in short, a political revolution is meaningless without direct and active community building in the process. In order to do this, however, we must understand the realities of our communities, and the impact of capitalism’s ruthless grip on them.

Therefore, when we envision the world we are trying to create, a society that is built purely on the equitable and empathic treatment of each of its members, we must prioritize trauma and its impacts. The purpose if this article is to understand the impact of capitalism beyond our current economic or social understanding. Capitalism, through the conditions created by its ruthless class exploitation, is in itself responsible for traumatic experiences on a mass scale: from the inability of economically vulnerable community members to seek affordable and adequate treatment, to the police violence that is often persistent in poor communities, and to the intergenerational trauma that plays itself out in the biology of historically abused communities. And while these effects cannot be necessarily reversed in the immediate, we can begin to use this framework of understanding to view a solution: trauma-informed socialism.

Understanding Trauma

News reports in recent months have been giving more lip service to the idea of trauma, sometimes discussing the traumatic impact of an event in an attempt to understand it and its effects. Trauma is, of course, a reality that clinicians have known and discussed for decades, but they have all too often limited these discussions to their own inner circles and professional conferences. Whether it is violence perpetrated by the system of policing, mass gun deaths, natural ecological disasters, or the opioid crisis, when bad things happen they have a devastating effect on our senses of self and safety. Traumatic experiences and their consequences are at the core of our understanding of catastrophic events and systems of power. But if we are to understand how, we must first explore what trauma is.

There’s a lot more, and you can read the whole thing at the link. Essentially, the point being that these people want to blame all the bad things that happen in somebody’s life on the capitalist system and therefore we need ever-larger therapeutic government which tells them they don’t have any real agency in their lives and can’t get beyond adversity without Big Brother pitching in.

It’s idiotic stuff, but the Left absolutely believes it. It’s why they can’t stop advocating for criminals, for illegal aliens, for the hardcore dysfunctional, for the insane.

What does this have to do with Denise Marcelle? Well, she’s trying to inflict this mentality on the Louisiana Department of Health.

Marcelle has a bill, HB 902, which would require the Louisiana Department of Health to create a statewide trauma-informed training program for public school personnel focused on recognizing and responding to adverse childhood experiences.

In other words, that old article from 2018 the Democratic Socialists posted on their website and then took down? She wants to make it state policy.

And the sleepyheads on the House Committee on Health and Welfare let it out on an 8-0 vote. It’s in front of the Appropriations Committee today.

Want me to go deeper? OK.

The bill would force the Louisiana Department of Health to hire somebody – somebody who believes all the same trash Denise Marcelle believes, naturally – to develop a program for “trauma-informed training” for teachers, school administrators, counselors, nurses, aides, and school resource officers. In other words, she would use the state health department to further push Louisiana’s school system down the road of Marxist indoctrination. Every traumatic experience in a kid’s life would be contextualized, per the “trained professionals” in the schools, under the direction of the state health department, as evidence they’re victims of the capitalist system in America.

And a lot of this is already in place in things like law enforcement training. It’s not completely out of the blue at all.

Denise Marcelle doesn’t want the schools to teach kids how to read, write, do math and understand civics and history. Oh no. She wants the schools to turn into psychiatric trauma centers where everything is explained under the ambit of free enterprise punishing kids for being black, or gay, or female, or whatever.

Don’t think for a minute she doesn’t. Because this is about power. This is about sneaking the Leftists in through the back door of a school system which is finally climbing out of the educational toilet nationally by focusing on getting the basics right.

And the Republicans in the Legislature, who in their defense have hundreds of bills to plow through, flat-out missed what’s going on.

That needs to end today before this bill gets any further.

And can we please get somebody at the Legislature to put in the rule, at least unofficially, that Democrats don’t advance bills unless at least one Republican is willing to put his or her name on them and be held accountable for the legislation? It would have eliminated this particular atrocity of a bill weeks ago.