10-28-2016, 04:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-28-2016, 05:00 PM by Bob Butler 54.)
Another CNN article, "The narcissism of Donald Trump's candidacy", by Dr. Alan J. Lipman, a former professor at Georgetown University.
In general, it is considered bad for for a psychologist to diagnose individuals he has not had a chance to personally examine. A few psychologists seem to think there ought to be an exception to that rule when a dangerously unstable individual has been nominated for president by a major party.
In general, it is considered bad for for a psychologist to diagnose individuals he has not had a chance to personally examine. A few psychologists seem to think there ought to be an exception to that rule when a dangerously unstable individual has been nominated for president by a major party.
Dr. Alan J. Lipman Wrote:The problem for Trump is that no one can ever find complete agreement, can ever receive constant fealty and admiration. This has been the wish and the downfall of dictators and nations through the ages. Their ashes lay beneath our feet.
Yet here is Trump, consumed with every trivial slight. A man who lacks empathy for the consequences of his actions upon broad swaths of the American public. A man with a fundamental need for conflict and with a remorseless willingness to use the most destructive tools of society towards those with whom he disagrees and who he feels have betrayed him.
Bereft of knowledge, of the empathy that drives and is essential for actual service, Trump is willing to act upon impulse, without knowledge, and is driven by fury. He is a candidate with the potential to bring a democratic republic down with him.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.