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Solly Mack

(96,734 posts)
4. A shared psychotic/delusion disorder, maybe - the madness of many.
Tue Jun 18, 2019, 08:44 PM
Jun 2019

Centered around Trump, his followers take on and take up Trump's delusions.

They were already suffering from their own delusions (from years of manipulation from politicians, religious zealots, and assorted other lies and liars) but now those delusions have coalesced around Trump and his own enabling delusions - that feed his ego - an ego that proclaims Trump is the salvation and proof of their rightness - which feeds the crowd who cheer, which feeds Trump's ego. And on and on and on. Each high - and they are getting high - requires more stimulus to reach that moment of elation. It's a very volatile cycle. Continually building toward violence. At first sporadic and then on a wider scale.

I know some think people will pull back but I'm not sure about that.



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