I’m not a psychiatrist. But, I don’t think that this is something that we can ignore, and just leave to the “experts.” I think that we all understand the basic concepts of psychology and psychiatry, and we have to use them, and every ability we have ever acquired, to combat Trumpism – if we value our lives.

Donald Trump shows a striking inability to parse information. He can’t order and arrange, or prioritize data in a normal way. So, we get pink elephants like airports in the Eighteen Century, refugees from terror and rampant criminality depicted as villains, and raking as a cure-all for the desiccation of North America. The President seems to be getting worse, and we are all in terror of what he may do.

Was Trump born with an organic cognitive defect of his brain? Who could know? But, from his history we can see exactly how he may have become damaged. Donald had a father who didn’t know love, compassion or decency. Donald was indoctrinated with mafia principles and values from infancy: Everyone is either preditor or prey, everyone is dishonest, service to country is for suckers, everyone can be bought, hard work is for underlings, all honor to the Bosses. Endlessly. He must have had tremendous cognitive dissonance; with the whole world telling him that parents love their children, while he had a father who couldn’t conceive of love as anything but weakness.

Trump was taught that the only things of value were wealth, power, and loyalty. He wasn’t just taught though. Every person in his life, every wiseguy hustler, every pimp and counterfeiter, the grocer, the banker, and the cop on the beat all believed the same thing.

One of Trump’s instructors has said that he was “the dumbest student he ever had.” A classmate said that Trump bought his degree. He has never shown the ability to read or write normally. He has neglected, all his life, to improve his mind, so he compensates by creating pseudo-knowledge. And he really believes that he is a genius. Why not? In his mind he has everything figured out. He knows everything of value, so why waste a single second learning valueless things?

But, since the 1980’s there have been forces at work in this country that took advantage of people like Trump; for power and wealth, of course. Trump was already damaged, maybe beyond repair; but he had to be enabled. That was done by the Tea Party, and the Masters of Division like Paul Ryan. And, it was too much for Trump. Greed drove him over the edge – with a stout shove.

Donald Trump isn’t normal! I don’t mean that in a medical sense. I mean that he can’t do things that most if us find commonplace. It’s unbelievable that he could do a complex job. Could he assemble an automobile engine? Fly an airplane? Teach a course in American National Government? Can he develop a plan for our technological future (okay, that’s a little absurd)? If he is getting worse, then he may prescribe nuclear war as a solution to… what? Famine? Would he start a civil war to stay President for life, setting brother against brother, armed with military style weapons? He has threatened us with exactly these horrors.

Trump is nearing his limit, his breaking point. What will come next? Will he simply lose the ability to express himself normally, and lose everything because of what put him there: his rambling, insane diatribes. Or, will his mind last just long enough to start a global war? Will he turn this country into a mafia domain? Will he destroy the rule of law? Will he give the order: “Kill all Liberals.”

The most frightening thing is that millions are going the same way. Trump has enabled them. He set loose a monster that we will play hell containing. Are they all like The Donald, broken and unrecoverable? Will they discard every principle that Western Civilization was founded on, at his command? Yes! That’s obvious, if they aren’t stopped.

The future of mankind hangs by a thread. Oh yes, it is that serious. If we don’t take this existential threat seriously, then hundreds of millions will die. Next summer, when the heat waves kill millions, and food crops are blighted, that is the beginning of the end. When the wars begin, and the mass extinctions of refugees begin, and the food shortages, and the real mass incarcerations begin with starvation concentration camps; then you will see why I say, “hundreds of millions will die.”

Do we have the will to stop Trump now? Doubtful. He has so many allies. Some, like Mitch, smirk with delight at the thought of killing representative democracy. Many, like Putin would gloat over the corpse of, “the greatest country in the world.” The entire World Mafia is itching to divie up the spoils.
And, homegrown terrorists would carve out criminal empires in the, “Birthplace of Freedom.”

Ever had a gun at your head? You have now!

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27 Psychiatrists and Mental health experts believe there is something psychology wrong with him. The contributed their thoughts in the book: The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump.

“Power not only corrupts but also magnifies existing psychopathologies, even as it creates new ones. Fostered by the flattery of underlings and the chants of crowds, a political leader’s grandiosity may morph into grotesque delusions of grandeur. Sociopathic traits may be amplified as the leader discovers that he can violate the norms of civil society and even commit crimes with impunity. And the leader who rules through fear, lies, and betrayal may become increasingly isolated and paranoid, as the loyalty of even his closest confidants must forever be suspect.”

Lee, Bandy X.. The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President (pp. 7-8). St. Martin’s Press. Kindle Edition.

RichardC
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RichardC

Did you happen to catch this little ditty?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-awkward-response-yazidi-woman-killed-isis_n_5d323dffe4b004b6adb00764

Is Trump losing the capacity to process what people are saying to him? It has been said over and over again by people who have actually worked with Trump that he has no attention span and doesn’t seem to comprehend anything more than the length of one page. This is yet another sign of mental illness.

Oh yeah, it doesn’t scare me that this man has the codes to our nuclear arsenal. Yeah, right.

Jake321
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Jake321

Don’t know if he is suffering from his congenital dementia but we all sure are…

Dahlia Swan
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Dahlia Swan

I don’t know if he is just a complete a-hole or if there’s something neurologically wrong with him. Every time he talks he has slurred speech and we know all his blunders, especially the last one: “Our Army took over airports in 1776″. I question his doctors – and don’t believe he is mentally fit for office.

Nonpartay
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Nonpartay

And the really sad thing is, he’s just a guy, a human being, like the rest of us, and he will die, like the rest of us, and if there is an afterlife like I think there is, what will he have to show for his life here? Anything of value? I can’t think of one thing he’s done that I would consider virtuous. We are supposed to make an effort to make the most of our God-given brains (and hearts, for that matter), and I can’t see that he has. And maybe that’s not his fault because of how he was raised, and yet many people have been raised in terrible homes and turn out to be terrific. But if hundreds of millions of people die because of his actions, he’ll feel their pain as his own pain, every one of them, if those who have had near-death experiences are to be believed. In short, I wouldn’t want to be him. He’s pathetic and dangerous, but perhaps he’s what we need in order to snap out of our culture’s materialism, nationalism, and racism. I just hope that happens before hundreds of millions end up dead.

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Opie Cat

I wish we could blame Trump’s Narcissistic Sociopathology onto dementia. We can’t.