While it's reasonable to maintain a capacity for skepticism about the wisdom and integrity of government agencies and officials, I will never comprehend the choice by so many people -- some of them well educated -- to place their highest trust in an obvious sociopath with an aggressively self-centered worldview and a pattern of transpare…
While it's reasonable to maintain a capacity for skepticism about the wisdom and integrity of government agencies and officials, I will never comprehend the choice by so many people -- some of them well educated -- to place their highest trust in an obvious sociopath with an aggressively self-centered worldview and a pattern of transparently preposterous mendacity.
People who are smart enough to know better chose to redefine "corruption" as not being in lockstep with a man who is so ethically bankrupt that even Jeffrey Epstein noticed that he lacks a "moral compass." And they claim that he's a warrior against forces of evil.
We are seeing an abusive relationship between Trump and his supporters. In abusive relationships, the abused believes that her partner’s behavior is minor, and can be eliminated by him. This is a false narrative, but the partner keeps believing it because to not believe means that she has to do something, which she neither can or wants to do. The abuser does not want to change because abusing his partner is what he needs to do. This may be simplistic, and I know that women abuse men. I have witnessed many in my family in abusive relationships, an spent two years volunteering with a group that was trying to break this cycle. Trump’s supporters want him to change and stop lying. He won’t. They can’t leave because they would have to admit they were wrong for so long.
Or more money. And for those who won’t get the more money. It’s punishment of the other. And for a few the message from them is ‘I’m going down and I’m going to take you with me.
While it's reasonable to maintain a capacity for skepticism about the wisdom and integrity of government agencies and officials, I will never comprehend the choice by so many people -- some of them well educated -- to place their highest trust in an obvious sociopath with an aggressively self-centered worldview and a pattern of transparently preposterous mendacity.
People who are smart enough to know better chose to redefine "corruption" as not being in lockstep with a man who is so ethically bankrupt that even Jeffrey Epstein noticed that he lacks a "moral compass." And they claim that he's a warrior against forces of evil.
One word for it is "Orwellian."
We are seeing an abusive relationship between Trump and his supporters. In abusive relationships, the abused believes that her partner’s behavior is minor, and can be eliminated by him. This is a false narrative, but the partner keeps believing it because to not believe means that she has to do something, which she neither can or wants to do. The abuser does not want to change because abusing his partner is what he needs to do. This may be simplistic, and I know that women abuse men. I have witnessed many in my family in abusive relationships, an spent two years volunteering with a group that was trying to break this cycle. Trump’s supporters want him to change and stop lying. He won’t. They can’t leave because they would have to admit they were wrong for so long.
Or more money. And for those who won’t get the more money. It’s punishment of the other. And for a few the message from them is ‘I’m going down and I’m going to take you with me.