Thread by @SteB777

I haven't been bringing attention to Trump's strong psychopathic traits, to insult him.

Rather I am alarmed that there is so little recognition, of just how deranged and abnormal Donald Trump actually is.

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I've had the misfortune of being at the wrong end of people with this type of serious personality disorder, and realize that it is very misunderstood.

Psychopath, is not a synonym, for a bad person.
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Superficially, such people appear to be normal, charming, but what they are really like, is not at all apparent from how they appear.

"The Mask of Sanity: An Attempt to Clarify Some Issues About the So-Called Psychopathic Personality", says it.

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I'm not sure if Cleckley's work, is that useful in describing this condition aside from the overall description.

"Cleckley describes the psychopathic person as outwardly a perfect mimic of a normally functioning person ..."
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To me, this is how you need to see such people, from personal experience and insight.

What you see from the outside, bears little relationship, to what these people are actually like. It is a profound mistake to take them at face value.
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An even bigger mistake, is to think that under this mask, is some hidden, coherent personality, which there isn't.

I know this from deep personal experience of trying to work them out. The lights are on, but there's no one in, just a bunch of incoherent impulses.
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This is the most dangerous thing about Trump. People, especially those politically close to him, mistakenly think behind that orange mask, there's someone who actually understands reality, and what they are doing. There isn't!
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People will argue with me, and say, but how can he have got where he is, have been president before? It's simple, in Trump's business life and the presidency, 95+% of the time, what was happening, was nothing to do with him. He just gave random orders, others implemented them.
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You could have replaced Trump the businessman, and Trump the former president, with a life-like animatronic doll, which just spewed out random Trump like missives, and you'd never know Trump wasn't actually there, and it would run pretty much like it did.
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The critical part of a president, is that they have to make key decisions, and here is the problem, as we saw during the pandemic. A lot of those decisions, can be incredibly stupid, and unwise.
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But under pressure, these decisions could be catastrophic.

One of the problems with psychopaths, is that they don't learn from experience, and have no grasp of consequences.
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Likewise, narcissists, and Trump is both, never stop to think that they might be mistaken, and take advice from those better qualified, because they delusionally think they always know what's best.
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The whole world is being taken in a very dangerous direction, by a deranged man, with a serious personality disorder, probably 2, where other establishment figures, mistakenly believe Trump is rational inside, when he is not.
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It's like a pilot has been given a licence to fly a passenger plane full of people, when they have no idea of how to actually fly the plane, except for a bit of training on a flight simulator, on how to take off.
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Trump is going to do something really crazy, and everyone will wrongly assume, he knows what he is doing, and he has a plan and strategy, when he doesn't.

Even worse, he will never ask for anyone else's advice.
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I'm not a great fan of any previous president. But there is a massive difference between Trump, and all the other previous presidents, on both sides of the political divide. None of the others, believed, they always knew best, about everything.
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None of the others, had no conscience or moral compass - AT ALL! None of the others, believed, that no one else mattered but themselves and were totally egocentric in their outlook.

This is not an act, it is actually what Donald Trump is really like.
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I see lots of mistaken political analysis, including in the liberal media, which mistakenly assumes, that when Trump says random, dangerous things, that this is just an act. That underneath is a rational man. This is completely mistaken.
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Again, people will say, how can he have run all these businesses, have been president before? Didn't they notice all the bankruptcies? Didn't they notice all the crazy insane orders, Trump gave when he was last president, which were ignored?
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That Trump openly ordered Bill Barr to arrest Biden, Obama, Hillary Clinton etc, but Barr refused. We probably don't know about most of the other crazy orders Trump gave, which were ignored.
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However, this time Trump has surrounded himself with sycophantic yes men, who will never refuse to carry out his orders. Where he is gutting every official department of anyone who will refuse to carry out, his illegal orders.
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With an objective psychopath in charge, this is a disaster waiting to happen.

However, as I say, what I find most frightening is the complete lack of any understanding of this, by other mainstream politicians, and the media, all who seem to be largely blind to this.
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None of what I say, is political or ideological. I do not support any mainstream party or politician (check out my posting history, I am an equal opportunity critic). Not only do I not support any ideology, I object to the very idea of ideology.
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