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May 16, 2016

Dyslexics like Trump are naturally good at the creative problem solving simple business transactions

entail. And the big picture business requires to be successful in markets. And the same people reading skills that make him a good politician and salesman. But that is not running the free world. Trump will not be the one doing the creative policy proposals. That will come from the areas of government that have expertese. So what does he bring to the Presidency? His simple sales skills? That certainly the only role the GOP want him to play. And he can't learn the details he has to every day. He's just not a detailed oriented person. He will not be able to learn quickly from mistakes or discern the best course of action very well from a list of options. If he ever does learn the GOP slate of policy proposals that currently bang up against what he senses from the base, he will not know why he is doing what he is doing or he will be a big liar in chief. Either one is what the GOP want. Let's not give it to them.

May 15, 2016

I'm dyslexic. It takes me forever to learn some new system. Donald Trump is dyslexic. He doesn't

have enough time to learn foreign policy, etc. I also have trouble learning things that are not fact but fiction. It just doesn't stick in my brain. No doubt Donald has the same problem and is schooled by the GOP to decrease taxes on the wealthy and minimum wage of the working poor, then goes out to the audience that is suffering takes a cue from them an backtracks. Because reality is that the rich should be paying more in taxes and the poor making more in wages. He will do this empathy/intellectual back and forth all summer. The GOP want him to be a true believer but they don't have twenty years to school him in their bullshit like they did when they groomed the dyslexic Ronald Reagan. Or dyslexic George W. Bush. Trump has already pulled down the fictions of the GOP: that they are not racist, that they are not appealing to racists, that they want to help the lives of the workers who make up their base. They are, they are and they don't. Seems the GOP are hoping to turn celebrity Trump into celebrity/politician Ronald Reagan. He can't learn their bullshit. It is not discernible reality. There are no examples of trickle down economics working in the 3D world dyslexics live in. It is not factual. He will not learn it. So they will try to make him memorize it in sequential memory (or working memory, I'm not sure which). He will face a crowd he enjoys, go to his fact based episodic memory of events and will tell the truth and connect with them in his authentic way. This nightmare for the GOP will go on and on. They don't have enough time to get the GOP economic bullshit into him.

May 13, 2016

He's a dyslexic. They often 'fog' when they don't feel safe. Old evolutionary strategy

from a time when they were scapegoated by psychopaths because, having exceptional spatial abilities concurrent with an inability to learn detailed human fictions (like cult narratives), they often figured the psychopaths out before anyone else. Obviously he sees the press as the enemy.

May 13, 2016

Yup. Trump is dyslexic. Who require lots of time to learn new systems because they are just the

basic facts type people. They don't learn human fictions like any GOP policy quickly, if at all. The type of fictions humans create and then all get together to believe...making it so. It is as if there is a war going on within Trump: his dyslexic (just the facts) self fighting with the bullshit GOP Policies they are trying to ram down his throat. He may be incapable of learning and holding onto such fictions. Other human fictions Trump may not be able to get: religion, the Constitution. Dyslexics try to get along and square things. Seems that Trump just can't square GOP policies with the needs of his base. Other than racism that is.

May 11, 2016

Contradictions are also very dialectical. Socrates and Hegel and thesis, antithesis and synthesis.

The people end up doing the synthesis according to confirmation bias so they feel like they are participating and partnering with trump. It bonds them to him.

April 25, 2016

It definitely is an issue of power, or lack thereof and isolation. Look

at the teen suicide rate in indigenous communities in Canada's north. Should politicians and those who discuss power not look into the reasons why the high rates? There is a book called 'A Fine Balance' by Rohinton Misery that goes into suicide vs. connection. It is a novel that takes place in India. It points out that economic opportunity isn't more important than how one connects to the world. Economics is hugely important. I wanted to point out the connectivity side of suicide. Or lack thereof.

April 25, 2016

Re: the increase in suicides in the USA. I think there are factors in play such

as the GOP morphing the religious into peddlers of wedge issues instead of them focusing on love morning noon and night. Also doing away with the adage that politics stops at the border has taken away the GOP base's enjoyment of presidential success in Foreign policy. Russian is isolated, Iran came to the table, Cuba will soon be a freer country, bin Laden is dead, etc. All are successes the average American would have taken pride in in the past. I'm sure the foreign policy attacks were to keep the base from enjoying and connecting to somebody Africa American in President Obama. Talk radio has made people hatefull and narcissistic in their relationship to the greater world. I'm sure there are many more ways the GOP has artificially isolated the white men who are killing themselves at increased numbers. Humans need to connect in an organic way to be fulfilled. Please feel free add to the list of artificial GOP isolation.

April 21, 2016

GO Obama. No doubt the forced long recession by the GOP was so that when boomers began to retire

wages would not be so high and there would be a bounty of unemployed. Better late than never folk should agitate and vote for unions and higher wages. If we can just peel off the exploited from the GOP. Which I think we can do.

April 19, 2016

This transgendered panic was thought up by the RNC to give them a new wedge issue. Creating panic is

all they do. They lost on gay rights. Right now it is Transgendered people and bathrooms. God only knows what citizens' panic they have on hold and will roll out for the General election.

Not much at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_panic

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