Thread by @simon_brooke

Reading this piece by @tconnellyRTE I've finally come to an understanding of who Johnson truly is, and how we got into this mess. >>>

rte.ie/news/2020/0911…

Johnson thinks he's Peter Pan. He's not: he's one of the Lost Boys. >>>

Probably because of some trauma in childhood (and, from what one knows of his parents, this isn't at all surprising) Johnson is incapable of advancing, emotionally or intellectually, past the level of a four year old. >>>

Johnson has, like a four year old, no clear understanding of the concepts of right and wrong, the difference between truth and fantasy, and, in particular, why lying is not a good strategy in the long term. >>>

Johnson is desperate for attention. He's desperate to please. He doesn't understand that telling people what they want to hear won't please them beyond the short term. We would treat all this as normal behaviour - in a four year old. >>>

We can - we should - have compassion for people who are so psychologically damaged by childhood trauma that their emotional and intellectual development is stunted.

But we should not elect them to high office.