This is how America rings in a new year. And there is nothing happy about it. In the wake of the New Orleans attack, the Sugar Bowl was postponed and rescheduled for today. Notre Dame and Georgia faced off this afternoon in the college football quarterfinal. The flags outside the Superdome flew at half staff. 

How quickly life goes on because life must go on. But also were those spectators and workers safe? The thing is, crime is actually down in America year over year. But it doesn’t feel safe in this, the most violent non-war-torn country on earth. We’re frankly terrorized, numb and terrorized at the same damn time.

Miller's response to Reid was fantastic, saying "No, Ms. Reid, this is not how America rings in a new year. This is how evil people intent on doing evil things — this evil person, a radicalized Muslim — ring in a new year." 

This is an easy thing to understand. American culture didn't do this, radical Islam did. In fact, you'll notice radical Islam is to blame for quite a bit of the grief that happens in this world, and they're not particularly shy about taking credit for it. The only people who seem to want to place the blame elsewhere are radical leftists or politicians on the left who have something to gain from finger wagging at the victims of Islamic violence. 

But it's the radical leftists that interest me. What would drive a person to become so wrong? How could someone become so delusional as to blame the dead for their death at the hands of terrorists, which is effectively what Reid is doing? 

Reid's behavior is bizarre and infuriating, but it's not wholly uncommon. Many leftists see as she does, and the thing they all seem to share, at least ideologically, is the continued use of critical theory. 

For those who don't know what it is, critical theory is the act of deconstructing something by focusing on solely on its flaws. It was created by the Frankfurt School in the early 20th century to be a Marxist critique on capitalism, but as time went on, critical theory was applied to many aspects of civilization, which is why you also see things like "critical race theory." 

It's something that is widely taught in universities, and forms the backbone for many a leftist activist. The issue is that critical theory is all-consuming. It forces you to see things through distorted lenses, and if you're ideologically bent to dislike or disapprove of something, critical theory allows you to find flaws within that thing, even if there are none. Everything begins to look wrong thought that lens, and soon your entire life revolves around these faults you find in things. 

As radical feminist and wildly ridiculous video game critic Anita Sarkeesian once famously quipped, "everything is sexist, everything is racist, everything is homophobic, and you have to point it all out." 

Imagine a life where you see monsters where there are windmills. Everywhere you look, you're so wired to see the problem in something that hardly anything is good. Humanity becomes demonic, systems that demonstrably uplift people, advance civilization, and create modern miracles become evil. There is no good except that which complicates the things you're predisposed to hate thanks to your ideology, and you will pardon or ignore very real evil in order to maintain your delusional worldview. 

While I'm no scientist or doctor, I do know that research shows some people get dopamine hits from attacking something they hate, whether it be physical or verbal. Like many dopamine addictions, the person has to push deeper into the subject, giving them the hit in order to keep the dopamine flow coming. You see this a lot in people addicted to pornography, who have to view more and more depraved things in order to achieve the same level of dopamine reward they had when they first started. 

Anger actually functions similarly, according to psychologists. 

I look at Joy Reid and I can't help but see that. This woman is not right. The things she does and says look more like someone you'd find posting a multi-paragraph, all-caps rant in the comments of a Facebook post. She exhibits traits of a person who, upon being confronted with an opposing idea on a college campus, will scream at the top of her lungs instead of engaging in conversation. 

You might have used the term "crazy" in your head to describe what you're seeing from people like this, and you may not be far off the mark. There's something in their mind that isn't right, and judging by how some of these people act, it's like they are sinking further and further into their delusion in order to deny reality and lash out at the thing they hate most. When your addiction is anger and hatred, persecution by any means necessary toward the thing you hate becomes a priority. 

That's bound to drive a person into madness. It's self-imposed insanity born from an addiction to hating something you shouldn't hate in the first place. If you even look a little closer, it almost looks a bit like drug addiction. 

Again, I don't know if this is the case, but it sure looks like it. Reid and her ilk are off the reservation, willing to victim blame if the victims belong to a group they hate, and ignore or applaud the people who victimized others if they are in opposition with them. The lights, makeup, and fancy sets might dress it up and make it look orderly and professional, but what we're seeing is legitimately psychotic. 

I think we're seeing a madness that started with the introduction of critical theory.