Psycho-pathology of Trump Supporters

Truth Detector said:
The irony of this birther thing escapes you of course, as do most things; it was started by Obama's Democratic opponent, not by Trump.

Trump: "President Barrack Obama was born in the United States....period."
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That was hilarious. The most grudging, forced and insincere backtrack I've ever seen in politics.

After years of leading the movement, with his teams of lawyers who were in Hawaii, and he "couldn't believe" what they were finding.

I give you credit for posting the video above. That takes some real partisan shamelessness.
 
Dark Soul said:
It's unethical and downright stupid to psychoanalyze an individual without actually interviewing them over a period of time then publishing your findings. So how does that make the psychoanalysis of a large percentage of Americans even remotely legitimate?
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It isn't psychoanalysis, you damn fool, it's social/psychological profiling based on statistical sampling. Do you think political activists psychoanalyze you ?
 
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Cypress said:
It took eight years for some Republicans to even grudgingly admit that George Dumbya Bush was a terrible president.

And he blundered us into two failed wars, and took us to the very precipice of a Second Great Republican Depression.

And even to this day, most Republicans will not fess up to the incompetence of Dumbya - they just pretend they never supported him!

Regarding the mindless loyalty to an incompetent Orange Clown, how hard do you think it is for Trump supporters to even begin to publically admit their hero is an incompetent fool, literally the stupidest and most unprepared president this great nation has ever had?

I think most of them will never admit it....in future years, they will just act like they never supported Trump.
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Meh....I think Trump has a long ways to go to reach the depths on ineptitude of Ohio's own Warren G. Harding....but it's certainly within reach! :)
 
Thing1 said:
That was hilarious. The most grudging, forced and insincere backtrack I've ever seen in politics.
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So when Democrats admit they made a mistake it is intellectual, but when Republicans do it it's insincere. Got it ::wink wink::

Thing1 said:
After years of leading the movement, with his teams of lawyers who were in Hawaii, and he "couldn't believe" what they were finding.
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He didn't lead it for years; but the Clinton campaign was just fine with it. ::wink wink::

Thing1 said:
I give you credit for posting the video above. That takes some real partisan shamelessness.
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You give extra meaning to the term partisan shamelessness. ::wink wink::
 
Truth Detector said:
So when Democrats admit they made a mistake it is intellectual, but when Republicans do it it's insincere. Got it ::wink wink::



He didn't lead it for years; but the Clinton campaign was just fine with it. ::wink wink::



You give extra meaning to the term partisan shamelessness. ::wink wink::
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Trump conned you like a bitch
 
“…the racial and ethnic isolation of Whites at the zip-code level is one of the strongest predictors of Trump support.”


Carpet bomb all the mobile home parks, there would be little collateral damage!
 
Micawber said:
“…the racial and ethnic isolation of Whites at the zip-code level is one of the strongest predictors of Trump support.”
Carpet bomb all the mobile home parks, there would be little collateral damage!
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:lolup:Fascist mental state of the left on full display; any questions?

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Micawber said:
“…the racial and ethnic isolation of Whites at the zip-code level is one of the strongest predictors of Trump support.”


Carpet bomb all the mobile home parks, there would be little collateral damage!
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Actually you're wrong there Mic. The Milgram social psychology experiments show that the authoritarianism psycho-pathology, so notably evident in Trump supporters, has no predictable traits, such as, education, race, religion, political affiliation or socio-economic status.

What Trump supporters do share in common, based on the evidence of social psychology, is that his supporters fall almost universally into what Milgram called an "agentic" state in which a person allows another individual to take responsibility for, and dictate the direction of, their actions. They rationalize and attempt to validate the actions of their authority figure. You see, for example, Darth Omar and Anatta making these rationalizations consistently.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-trump-experiment-20160825-story.html

You see that very obviously in the hard core Trump supporters in how they abdicate responsibility for their own actions and let Trump dictate those actions. As long as Fearless Leader (in this case Trump) dictates the direction of those actions then that is the direction taken.

This is hardly new. All sorts of historical figures, past and present, have driven their nations over the cliff followed in lock step by those afflicted with authoritarian psycho-pathology. Chavez, Castro, Mao, Hitler, Stalin to name just a few have blindly followed their Pied Piper as long as they don't have to take responsibility for their actions.

Trump has proven to be a master at manipulating the authoritarian psycho-pathology and that's what makes him a scary demagogue.
 
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Mott the Hoople said:
The lightning-fast ascent and political invincibility of Donald Trump has left many experts baffled and wondering, “How did we get here?” Any accurate and sufficient answer to that question must not only focus on Trump himself, but also on his uniquely loyal supporters. Given their extreme devotion and unwavering admiration for their highly unpredictable and often inflammatory leader, some have turned to the field of psychology for scientific explanations based on precise quantitative data and established theoretical frameworks.
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Don't necessarily need a Psych degree to know a cult when you see one...
 
iewitness said:
If he changes his mind mid sentence, it is probably because some adviser got him off course and he makes the course correction back to: making America great again/ draining the swamp.
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The problem with "draining the swap", is that once you drain it all that remains are the bottom feeders and pond scum.
 
Thing1 said:
You won elections because Obamacare went too far to the left - not because you "hunkered down" and focused or anything like that. And again, you don't speak for the many who lost it about Obama. Birtherism was a big movement - led by our current President - and there was a constant effort to portray him as something other than American. People were just as crazy.

Now, Democrats will start to win elections. Because voters in general don't like one-party control.
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"Birtherism" isn't the nutty issue that you make it out to be. Many had legitimate concerns, based in part by The Obama's extreme left views (that you just admitted he went "too far" on).

All you have left is a prediction that Democrats will somehow start winning elections, even though they are doubling down on going left, and based on a theory that Americans don't want one party rule. That theory doesn't hold water either because the GOP was and still is fractured into Originalists and "Democrat Lite".
 
Dark Soul said:
"Birtherism" isn't the nutty issue that you make it out to be. Many had legitimate concerns, based in part by The Obama's extreme left views (that you just admitted he went "too far" on).

All you have left is a prediction that Democrats will somehow start winning elections, even though they are doubling down on going left, and based on a theory that Americans don't want one party rule. That theory doesn't hold water either because the GOP was and still is fractured into Originalists and "Democrat Lite".
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The bolded is a poor justification. Universal healthcare was widely supported in the polls. Obama went too fast on it, and the country perceived it as too much of a shift too quickly, but that hardly means it justifies portraying him as lying about his birthplace, or being a secret Muslim, or all of the other many disparaging & baseless attempts to portray him as "other." Those weren't "legitimate concerns."

Honestly, basic racism was at the bottom of a lot of that. And that ain't race baiting; it's just a plain fact. Birtherism absolutely was nutty. There was nothing to it. Just go back & look at Trump's statements - his team of lawyers in Hawaii, and how he "couldn't believe" what they were finding. I still haven't heard a shred of evidence to even begin to suspect Obama's birthplace.

I don't think it's worth debating your 2nd point. Dems are going to win this fall, and they're probably going to keep winning for awhile.
 
Thing1 said:
The bolded is a poor justification. Universal healthcare was widely supported in the polls. Obama went too fast on it, and the country perceived it as too much of a shift too quickly, but that hardly means it justifies portraying him as lying about his birthplace, or being a secret Muslim, or all of the other many disparaging & baseless attempts to portray him as "other." Those weren't "legitimate concerns."

Honestly, basic racism was at the bottom of a lot of that. And that ain't race baiting; it's just a plain fact. Birtherism absolutely was nutty. There was nothing to it. Just go back & look at Trump's statements - his team of lawyers in Hawaii, and how he "couldn't believe" what they were finding. I still haven't heard a shred of evidence to even begin to suspect Obama's birthplace.

I don't think it's worth debating your 2nd point. Dems are going to win this fall, and they're probably going to keep winning for awhile.
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You don't want to debate the second point because you know that you have taken a weak position, and have already bolstered mine by admitting that Americans don't like the Left.

With regards to the first, you, like all dems, have resorted to name calling. In this case your fellow Americans who ask legitimate questions about BHO's background as "birthers". Now you've gone and tossed in The Race Card for good measure. It's no different than the "deplorables" comment that was the final nail in Hillary's loss.

Name calling, race baiting and leftists policies haven't worked for Democrats in the past, so what makes you think that doubling down on them will work now?
 
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