And I know I’m paranoid and neurotic, I’ve made a career out of it

Will I, succeed, paranoid from the weed and hocus pocus, try to focus but I can’t see.

The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom – whether black or white – who find in that paranoid vision an excuse for counterproductive and ultimately self-destructive attitudes and behavior