Thread by @FreedomFriesInc

Thread: Why I recently shifted my Twitter approach after 8 years.

1. Raising awareness of #narcissism is vital for democracy.

2. Unless and until T****, his US enablers, and UK cohorts are held fully accountable, I'm way less interested in the daily political news cycle.

https://twitter.com/BandyXLee1/status/1582643805160775680

I am survivor of narcissistic abuse by more than one person. Learning about narcissistic personality disorder and related behaviors changed my life. I now feel confident I can protect myself from such people in future.

"The personal is political." -1970s activists.

Entire countries have fallen under the spell of leaders with NPD & other serious disorders.

IMO the view that Donald T*** and Boris Johnson show signs of such disorders is science-based & highly credible. In 2016 Bandy Lee MD sounded the alarm about T****. I didn't listen.

I believed certain lies in 2016 and continued to ignore contrary information until shortly after he had lost the 2020 presidential election. It was about mid December 2020 when I accepted the facts. Although I didn't clearly say so clearly on Twitter, until January.

My view was that seeking recounts and other lawful peaceful means of challenge prior to 1/6 was OK. One week prior, I tweeted my prediction of violence and urged people to avoid going into DC to "protest." The joint session process allows lawful dissent by elected officials.

I believed that the usual security posture for planned lawful demonstrations in DC would ensure that any sporadic breakouts of outdoor violence wd be swiftly contained.

It is now abundantly clear that T**** plants in LE & military agencies ensured no effective security posture.

And as far as I know, many such individuals remain in post. The net is closing in on them, though.

Several million voters still believe lies about their Dear Leader T**** and his enablers. Those enablers still dominate the Republican party. So...

The world is still in danger. The US is a country too powerful for other countries to ignore. As someone with a working moral compass, I care very much about innocent people being harmed, regardless of where they live. Even on self interest alone, we cannot ignore the US.

Midterms election day is rushing up before us. You have until November 8, 2022 to do your duty & vote in favor of American democracy. No Republican can be trusted in an elected position at any level of gov't. They are allowing a mass murdering psychopath to escape accountability.

You're not voting "for" Democrats, you're voting against the rampant lawlessness of today's Republicans: A group of people with outsized power and zero personal limits on what harms they will tolerate, since those harms accrue to other people.

That is immoral to it's core.

Most of the deaths and other pandemic harms in the US were avoidable.

The level of suffering caused by such corrupt, enabling Republicans will flow on for decades, even generations.

They lost the WH, Senate and House because of the deliberately unmanaged pandemic response.

They also ensured the 25 million people of Afghanistan would be abandoned to the Taliban, with whom the T**** admin negotiated, instead of with the government we all helped to develop there. 80 countries had helped in our coalition there, and lost our heroes too. Thanks a bunch.

And I will never stop supporting the 44 million Ukrainians so cavalierly sacrificed by Republicans even today, in favor of their political mass delusion concerning Russia. Evidence of genocide, torture, child abduction, & forced removal of Ukrainians into Russia continues daily.

On 1/6, Jim Jordan tried to treat Liz Cheney like a fragile female as they evacuated the chamber. Her response was epic.

"Get away from me! You fucking did this."

Millions of former Republican voters share the same sentiment and are now voting blue for as long as it takes.

If I were an American, I'd do the same.

The only way to protect ourselves from the mass effects of empowering narcissists and/or mentally disordered people, is to become better educated about the problem.

Protect ourselves and each other.

We can use our voting and other civil and political rights do to our part at the community, national, and international level. It takes a long time to get the toothpaste back into the tube, though.

I'd rather write about the NPDs in our personal lives. I can help with that.

Public figures who likely have NPD or something similar can provide useful examples as we learn about the subject.

They're everywhere, including among B grade former actresses who target vulnerable men and ruin their lives.

NPD can affect people of any political persuasion.

A willingness to question one's own assumptions about people we politically agree with is a sign of personal growth.

If I had done that in 2016, it would have saved me a whole world of pain.

Fool me once, it's on you. But fool me twice, it's on me.

Stay woke, friends.😉