Does Trump have a mental illness and if he does does this make him dangerous and unfit for office?
Today I will focus on what most readers of this blog consider to be his vile odious personality.
The beer question is a thought experiment in politics that attempts to measure authenticity and likability in politicians by asking or polling voters about which politicians they would prefer to drink beer with, as in, spending casual time "hanging out" with. The question has been discussed as far back as the 2000 United States presidential election, as well as in the context of fictional political works such as The West Wing. The question has been criticized for the gender bias implicit in referencing a predominantly male drinking culture, and some have questioned the relevance of likability in choosing candidates for public office.
A Bullfinch survey of 1,500 registered voters, spread equally across the three key swing states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, showed that 40 percent overall would prefer to drink with Harris, compared to 36 percent who said the same for Trump. More than one in five voters (21 percent) said they would rather drink alone than with either the Democratic or Republican presidential hopefuls.In 2016, a Rasmussen Reports survey found that 45 percent of likely voters said they would prefer to have a beer with Trump over his Democratic election rival Hillary Clinton (37 percent).
In 2008, polls suggested Barack Obama was the candidate whom voters would rather have a beer with over his Republican challenger, John McCain.
George W. Bush won reelection in 2004 as he was widely considered the guy "you'd rather have a beer with" over John Kerry. A 2004 Zogby/Williams Identity poll that year found that 57 percent of undecided voters would rather have a beer with Bush than Kerry.
These poll numbers suggest that personality is a factor in who wins presdiential elections.
For fun I'd much rather have a beer with Kamala. However, as a blogger and retired psychotherapist who has been writing about Trump's psychopatholgy since 2016, if given the choice I'd opt for having a beer, or a cup of coffee or Diet Coke, with Trump.
As far as I know Trump has never sat down for an informal conversation with an experienced psychotherapist whose, please forgive the lack of modesty, colleagues used to liken to Columbo in figuring out a client's personality they way he figured out who the killer was. 40 years of experience taught me to see through, to put it bluntly, the bullshit to see the real person.
I am open to being proved wrong about my opinions about him. As a lefty I still need my right arm, but metophically I would give it up to have a chance to do this.
Comment from Pytho Black
I just read this in another blog, an hour or so ago.
“…the stupider one is, the closer one is to reality. The stupider one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence wriggles and hides itself.
Intelligence is a knave, but stupidity is honest and straightforward. I’ve led the conversation to my despair, and the more stupidly I have presented it, the better for me.” –Ivan Karamazov, The Brothers Karamazov
Of course, it is easy to see how Ivan and somebody we know have a common nature. And all those somebodies who love and support that aforementioned somebody we know, they too have something in common with good old Ivan, at least in the sense of his statement regarding stupidity.
But leaving psychopathology aside for a moment, I want to say something about fools. In my old age I have developed an approach different from suffering those I considered to be fools out of benevolent exasperation, to seeing myself through their eyes, and who is the fools then?
Now, poor Donald John Trump cannot help it that he is a pathological narcissist. You of all people should know that, or else your life’s work was based on mere vanity and greed. Maybe some nerve got twisted in the womb, or from some trauma at an early age, or exposure to gamma radiation in his baby food, or god-only-knows what kind of series of circumstances that caused him to transform into the charismatic obscenity that he has become.
I feel sorry for him, and for the people who are sucked into his tornado of pathology. It has to feel good, has to stimulate endorphins, has to cause one to feel less like a fool and more like a victim of those other fools tobe on the side that adores and supports such a person. He truly is a kind of Jesus, just as delusional, just as deranged, just as mythological.
