I am beginning to believe he just might be the modern day version of the anti-Christ. There is no doubt he is hell-bent on destroying our version of democracy and has instituted a full-out attack aimed at destroying the Republican party. He is not too far from succeeding on both counts. News reports of his near coup should send shivers down every American's back.
Amen my friends!
trump is a psychopath:
a person suffering from chronic mental disorder with abnormal or violent social behavior.
an unstable and aggressive person.
Psychopaths can be seen by others as charming, lead a semblance of a normal life, and minimize risk in criminal activities.
The true definition of a psychopath in psychiatry is antisocial personality disorder (ASPD). ASPD describes an individual who shows patterns of manipulation and violation to others.
My core concern has not been trump, rather the damage that he has, is and continues to inflict on our democratic form of government.
Some time ago I made a comparison in technique between trump and hitler and their use of the "big lie". Someone here came unglued on me for such a slanderous thought----well it isn't slanderous and it isn't mine alone:
The big lie (German: große Lüge) is a gross distortion or misrepresentation of the truth, used especially as a propaganda technique.[1][2] The German expression was coined by Adolf Hitler, when he dictated his 1925 book Mein Kampf, to describe the use of a lie so colossal that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously." Hitler claimed the technique was used by Jews to blame Germany's loss in World War I on German general Erich Ludendorff, who was a prominent nationalist political leader in the Weimar Republic. Historian Jeffrey Herf says the Nazis used the idea of the original big lie to turn sentiment against Jews and bring about the Holocaust.
Herf maintains that Joseph Goebbels and the Nazi Party actually used the big lie propaganda technique that they described – and that they used it to turn long-standing antisemitism in Europe into mass murder.[3] Herf further argues that the Nazis' big lie was their depiction of Germany as an innocent, besieged land striking back at international Jewry, which the Nazis blamed for starting World War I. Nazi propaganda repeatedly claimed that Jews held power behind the scenes in Britain, Russia, and the United States. It spread claims that the Jews had begun a war of extermination against Germany, and it used these claims to assert that Germany had a right to annihilate the Jews as self-defense.[4]
Anyone still wanting to attack me might want to read up on that first.
More than trump, I am fearful (yes, I said that---fearful) of the potential impact of people that have fallen into this deceit of trump's. The number is currently said to include 53% of the Republican Party---simply unfathomable to me.
trump cares nothing about anything other than trump (I have been long astounded that trump can still walk upright rather than slither)---including the future of this democracy and I have to add that my fear of the future might just be eclipsed by my anger over trump's big lie.
His current drive to remain in the news and stay in the spot light is more law suits---one of his life long endeavors and favorite tools----he doesn't have to win a damn one---just by doing it he uses the courts to his advantage.
This is far from over
Last edited by Dave Grubb; 09-26-2021 at 11:43 AM.
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