Yale psychiatrist: Trump's "displays of false strength" foreshadow plan to question election results

[highplainsdem]

I'm just using some of the quotes from Dr. Bandy Lee for this excerpt:


https://www.salon.com/2020/06/04/yale-psychiatrist-trumps-displays-of-false-strength-foreshadow-plan-to-question-election-results/

Approximately nine months ago, I devised a formula for "translating" Donald Trump's tweets, based on long-term, repeated, real-time testing of theories about his psychology. Part of it was that mere mention indicates a reality that is important to him and one he wishes to suppress by stating the opposite. This is not just cognitive dissonance but serious disorder of psychology: when he says he is "president of law and order," he is actually "telling us" he is president of illegality and chaos.

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This is how he keeps and expands illegitimate power, stays out of prison and declares himself American Führer — what he actually calls himself does not matter. A member of Congress said the president had declared war on millions of Americans and the First Amendment, and I must agree. As far as I have assessed, he declared war on reality and life itself long ago.

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Civil insurrection gives him the perfect excuse to bring in "his" military, and he is priming the public to accept this nationwide. We need to look out for martial law without declaring it as such, and theft of elections by postponing, canceling or declaring them "rigged." The method does not matter so much as achieving these ends, and mental health professionals understand the power of the mind to do this, especially when disordered and irrational. This is why I have emphasized the need for consultation with psychological experts, through impeachment or anything else. Bringing political or even legal weapons to psychological warfare will be like bringing tanks and canons to combat a cyber attack. They are simply not relevant. What we need is boundary setting, before things get out of hand, against his impulse to push ever greater psychological limits for himself and for the public.

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We know from successful people's movements that nonviolence is stronger than violence. Speaking up is powerful at times like this. If enough people speak the truth and do not back down, then Donald Trump's spell over his followers will be broken. He has targeted and punished those who do that, as deterrence, but this all the more reveals his Achilles' heel. Since the psychiatric establishment won't do it, the Justice Department won't do it, and the Congress won't do it, conscientious citizens need to ready ourselves for it, psychologically and spiritually, recognizing the moment we are in.

[Mike 03]

1. Thank you. Dr. Lee's insights are endlessly fascinating.

She's usually quite pessimistic. Yet, this is as close as I've seen her come to giving the American people advice and expressing hope:

If enough people speak the truth and do not back down, then Donald Trump's spell over his followers will be broken.

[Hugin]

2. Old Yeller can whine about it all he wants riding in the ox cart...

Prisons are full of people who claim to be innocent and were done wrong.

I do expect to see the Democrats perform the same bum rush used to get him out of office as the corrupt compliant GrOPpers used to get him to office in 2016 based on the electoral college loophole and 70,000 highly questionable votes. I will be very disappointed if they don't.