"Narcissistic Personality Disorder Comes to Washington"

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In reply to an essay by psychotherapist Felix Vikhman on the situation in Washington published by The Walrus:

There is one small complaint I have about the closing paragraphs of that prediction for the futures of many of the White House staff during the Trump years: it is not just one nation now entrapped as Trump's emotional hostage.

It is the entire human race.

For those who have ensured this outcome for us all, I do not know that I will ever be able to forgive that. If we survive it.

Comments

[thewayne]

I think it's an over-simplification, I suspect there may be multiple things going on, including simple habit. If you look at his age, he's also a prime candidate for mental impairment. But you are absolutely correct -- the United States is not the only country with a problem.

The thing that shocked me the most, reducing the election to a single component, is experience. He was an alleged businessman who could not maintain four casinos profitably. He was not a manufacturer, who actually makes jobs -- he built entertainment venues whose sole purpose was to take recreation/entertainment money from people. His businesses did not provide a material benefit to anyone except him. He treated his base-level employees shabbily, he frequently unilaterally would not pay contractors, he was flat-out scum of the earth when it came to treating people whom he held tremendous advantage over.

His opponent? Worked in government for over 30 years. And people thought he had the skill set to fix the nation that, while it has problems, is not fundamentally broken? The basic problems is that people/corporations with money have far too much voice in government, and he's going to do absolutely nothing to silence that because he is one of them.

He certainly sealed the deal when in his inauguration speech he never mentioned the words "democracy" or "Constitution".

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We know who to blame for that speech: Miller and Bannon. Certainly, Bannon has no love for democracy as those nations practicing any serious form of it have come to understand thus far.