And people followed him? Who in their right mind would do that? My respect for the American people just eroded.
Experts say Donald Trump has personality disorder
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I have a friend who is a retired psychiatrist and former chief of psychiatry at a well known major hospital in Greater Vancouver. He would routinely use Donald Trump as a classic example of someone suffering from a Narcissistic and Histrionic Personality Disorder (based on the DSM-5 manual) when teaching med students. Scary to think that there's an outside chance he could become President of the U.S.
This is what killing education along with systemic unequal opportunity in the USA give rise to.
All the suppressed racism, hatred, fear and resentment of the victims of a selective economy breaking out full-view.
Now, what happens if they plus those who will vote Republican anyway, in spite of common sense, outnumber the level-headed who make the effort to get to the polling booth?
The world cannot imagine what havoc a lunatic as POTUS would wreak on the planet.
All the suppressed racism, hatred, fear and resentment of the victims of a selective economy breaking out full-view.
Now, what happens if they plus those who will vote Republican anyway, in spite of common sense, outnumber the level-headed who make the effort to get to the polling booth?
The world cannot imagine what havoc a lunatic as POTUS would wreak on the planet.
All true... but I think The Donald would be much worse, and further would not be that open to the advice of more qualified others.... his ego wouldn't stand for it.
He's all con and self-convenient. I'm curious how world leaders would deal with it. But who knows? Conrad Black thinks Trump would be a very effective president.
I truly hope that we will not have the opportunity to "live through it". I'm not a fan of her, but "Go Hiliary" is the safer choice of a bad lot in all.
If it's Trump or especially Cruz, I hope the US military has the common sense to hide the real nuclear launch codes from them.
Trump's popularity says absolutely nothing about the American people. It merely points out how easily those on the Right can be fooled by someone telling them all the things they want to hear.
Wait until the NE states, Midwest states, and those in the West have a chance to chime in.
But, I can admit, Trump has provided me more entertainment then I got from his reality show.
Talking to an associate in 'The South' who is voting for Trump.
I had to ask why.
He first of all, offers apologies to outsiders watching this particular campaign. At how dysfunctional the political system has gotten.
The vote for Trump is a message to the political establishment that they no longer represent the electorate. They are not wanted. The political establishment is hated. So they're hoping, by not supporting anyone from the establishment, it will destroy the Republican party for a perceived betrayal.
The same group of people are also pushing for term limits for Congress. Which I also feel is neccessary.
The gentleman I have been discussing this with is also horrified at the thought of Hillary becoming president. There is the perception that this will exerbarate the divisions within the country, and may hasten the collapse of the USA.
So they're stocking up on arms and ammo. Outsiders don't understand this paranoia, but those from the south have already experienced it once with a federal government disregarding the opinions of the south triggering the civil war. People seriously feel it's going to happen again.
I had to ask why.
He first of all, offers apologies to outsiders watching this particular campaign. At how dysfunctional the political system has gotten.
The vote for Trump is a message to the political establishment that they no longer represent the electorate. They are not wanted. The political establishment is hated. So they're hoping, by not supporting anyone from the establishment, it will destroy the Republican party for a perceived betrayal.
The same group of people are also pushing for term limits for Congress. Which I also feel is neccessary.
The gentleman I have been discussing this with is also horrified at the thought of Hillary becoming president. There is the perception that this will exerbarate the divisions within the country, and may hasten the collapse of the USA.
So they're stocking up on arms and ammo. Outsiders don't understand this paranoia, but those from the south have already experienced it once with a federal government disregarding the opinions of the south triggering the civil war. People seriously feel it's going to happen again.
I disagree on that. He ran a variety of scams.. Trump Steaks (read the reviews), Trump University (read the reviews and the lawsuits) and went bankrupt 4 times. His wealthy friends bailed him out. I wouldn't call him a businessman.It's funny - I just assumed everybody already knew that.
As a business man, (read as self serving entrepreneur) he is brilliant. As a human being......not so much.
That sounds like his kind of dopey followers, ready to cut off their nose to spite their face.
Hillary represents the same thing for all American women born after she's elected that Obama means to all minority children.
They will never be told that a woman/minority person can't be President because it's been done.
For that reason alone she needs to/will win.
Trump is just going to make the campaign desultory, vulgar, and despicable.
Hillary will win President and Trump has already locked up King of the Ugly Americans.
If Trumpster McDouchenozzle is crazy, he is crazy like a fox.
He is very clever.
Whatever shenanigans he is up to will, I hope, eventually be revealed.
But I do not think the situation is as it now appears.
I believe there will, at some point, be an OMFG moment when he does his great reveal.
He is very clever.
Whatever shenanigans he is up to will, I hope, eventually be revealed.
But I do not think the situation is as it now appears.
I believe there will, at some point, be an OMFG moment when he does his great reveal.
I have to agree with you there. The US has consistently failed, horribly failed, at "nation building" since post-WW2. There's just no more MacArthur's and the like with the foresight, authority, influence, and knowledge to help rebuild a country that's in tatters or that's gone through tremendous upheaval (like Libya, or Iraq. Afghanistan has been in pretty continuous upheaval for like 150+ years).
I'd argue the last half-century has been one after another variation of "Let's bomb the shit out of this place (or neighbor), stir up the pot, support a horrible human being to somehow magically turn a 3rd world country into a mini-US w/o infrastructure, proper wages to preclude bribery, or efficiency, then step aside and wonder aloud why that country looks as bad as it did before we spent trillions of dollars."
Trump will more likely just mess up the US. Sure, that affects many other countries in this global economy, but it'll be easier for them to adapt and just avoid that crazy middle brother of Mexico and Canada.
While I dont agree with your Hiliary support, I'm glad you had a pair of balls and spoke on who else you'd rather vote for unlike all the other complainers here with no solution other than crying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKOQdcVoRys
I think you will find that a good percentage of those who support Trump are the people who don't vote at all, but still think that their views should be represented somehow.
There is a mechanism available if you are dissatisfied with how things are going.....vote your local representative out of office. The problem is that most people don't have an issue with their own representative, they have an issue with other peoples representatives. That is why Congress has such an abysmal approval rating, but they still all get re-elected.
