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Atticus

(15,124 posts)
Tue Jan 8, 2019, 08:48 PM Jan 2019

I believe I may have become too accustomed to Trump's disgusting craziness. I'm sort

of ashamed to admit it, but there are times when I'd just as soon listen to his spewing than --- ugh! --- Pence! I think I may be totally biased against smarmy hypocritical ass-kissers.

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I believe I may have become too accustomed to Trump's disgusting craziness. I'm sort (Original Post) Atticus Jan 2019 OP
Honesty is the first step...to getting better. Crutchez_CuiBono Jan 2019 #1
Odious racist, mysoginist in WH IS toxic! Yet, why are some repelled and some RestoreAmerica2020 Jan 2019 #2

Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)
1. Honesty is the first step...to getting better.
Tue Jan 8, 2019, 08:55 PM
Jan 2019

Friends don't let friends crash and burn on 'the russian illegit'.
F him.

RestoreAmerica2020

(3,435 posts)
2. Odious racist, mysoginist in WH IS toxic! Yet, why are some repelled and some
Tue Jan 8, 2019, 10:36 PM
Jan 2019

...drawn to narssistic behavior? Dr. Bandi Lee, Yale psych prof explains Trump's pathology: shared pyschosis...


i]Excerpt

Tana Ganeva: President Trump’s approval ratings continue to be high among Republican voters and the Republican leadership is largely silent. How do you explain continued loyalty to the President?

Bandy X. Lee: Again, this is the expected course when we are dealing with mental pathology. Studies have shown that “leaders” with actual pathology are more effective in beguiling the public—and perhaps lawmakers, too, although we might have expected better of them—not less.

For example, a truly paranoid person is more likely to whip up frenzy, and hence garner irrational support, among his followers than a rational person who is simply employing the same methods as a strategy. With the sick person, you will see two camps over time: the healthier portion of the population, which becomes exhausted, inured, and increasingly hopeless; and the less healthy portion, which becomes more and more taken but less and less in touch with reality.

The overall effect is what we call “shared psychosis”: the population starts taking on the same symptoms as the person who is ill. The portion that “desires” Mr. Trump’s presidency may seem as if they are getting what they want, but the longer he stays, the more deleterious his effects will be, finally driving himself and them to destruction.











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