Dutch Uncle
* Tertia Optio * Defend the Constitution
Agreed with a caveat.Precisely. Being shielded from reality, he was like the only child who concocts imaginary friends to keep from being lonely. In his case, he simply concocted an inflated sense of self worth. No doubt due to those who would be happy to part of his posse just because of the money.
In the philosophy threads, the subject of free will was a common one. The atheists believe we're all meat robots reacting solely to biochemical programming and experience while the theists pushed a magical power of complete Free Will. Freud came out towards the middle by dividing our actions as based upon Super Ego, Ego and Id. I'm in the middle too, although weak on psychoanalytic psychiatry.
Regardless, even if 90% of our actions are guided by genetics and other factors beyond our conscious control, that still leaves 10% choice AKA the free will to choose.
Trump had a choice and still has choices just as Biden did. Biden acted in the best interests of the nation over personal glory. Trump will not. If he loses, he will do his best to burn down the nation one way or another.