The puzzle I’m asking today is why the media, the voters, the pundits, and so on, REFUSE to acknowledge that Trump is insane, technically, organically and legally insane. Here are the reasons I can think of at the moment:
1. Everyone enjoys rebuking Trump for his bad manners, his ugly presentation, his over-the-top pronouncements. If we admitted he is insane, conventions about being kind to madmen would prevent mocking him the way he mocks anyone with a disability.
2. The mafia does not want to admit their relationship and his madness distracts from it, provides cover.
3. There is a possibility that everything he has done can be reversed on grounds that he was insane, so it is invalid.
4. If he is insane, what is McConnell? He is at least pandering to and enabling an insane person. His disregard for the law is deliberate, but is it sane?
5. Our citizens don’t like to talk about insanity, what it means and how to deal with it. They prefer wickedness or even satanic excuses. It’s so much more vivid and righteous.
6. Given his own history as reported by Mary Trump, how does his insanity affect the family documents about inheritance, present ownership, and so on?
7. If Trump is elected in spite of being insane, does that change the sequence ensuing about the next steps. Is the election vacated or are there "inheritance" sequences like Pence?
8. The founders, wise as they might have been, never seem to have considered madness, though the King of England was provably insane. Was it too hot? Too confusing?
9. Is the problem establishing a definition and diagnosis of insanity? Particularly given lack of cooperation from the patient? On the broadest grounds, it would be possible to define “white supremacy” as delusional to the point of insanity. Some would say love of violence minus the actual felonious performance of it was a psychiatric deficit, as well as a social debit.
10. Who among does not occasionally wonder if we ourselves are a bit nuts and it’s comforting to see that we aren’t as insane as Trump.
11. Those who like to mock democracy as delusional, enjoy watching Trump demonstrate it.
12. Nationally we have been unable to deal “sanely” with psychotic people, mostly loading them onto cops who are not prepared nor equipped to deal with them. We just let them get so bad they die of themselves or are shot.
13. Trump doesn’t mind if we think he is psychotic, so long as we admit he is smart, handsome, and wealthy.
14. Those who are really operating the country — both the conscientious dedicated civil servants who always make it work and the devious and corrupt intruders who try to sabotage everything — are proving that the Presidency is a vestigial role that isn’t really necessary. The fatal flaw with this position is that it’s time-limited and reaching that limit. Also that there is no measurement possible of how much better off this country could be, how much more it could support and inspire the citizens, if a sane and idealistic person occupied the role.
15. Trump’s insanity is easy to project onto all the causes of trouble in the nation. Whatever he is gets mirrored onto arguably insane things like wearing masks. “Takes one to know one,” maybe. And the media follow like spaniels for whom he throws a ball to retrieve. The more colorful and specific the accusation, the better article material.
16. One of Trump’s most insane assumptions is that he has not been the President all these years — he is not accountable because he isn’t elected yet because if he’d been elected he would be all-powerful by now without all these legal entailments. Being elected is being crowned King of the World.
17. How can we accuse Trump of treating Covid-19 as though it were a delusion/illusion when no one even brought the subject up in the “debate”? Are we afraid to look at the lessons of historic pandemics, which suggest it may take centuries to recover? Centuries.
18. The public insanity of Trump lands right in the middle of a major sea-change in our understanding of how humans function. Aspects include:
a. The ability to provide compensatory medications.
b. The wish to deal with people compassionately, esp. those who have been deranged in service to us, maybe as military.
c. Competing talking-theory systems and the profits possible, which rival meds. (Also are as corruptible.)
d. Unresolved cultural issues like those about sex which are very much increased by immigrants with far more historical attitudes. Is prostitution a psychiatric or moral problem? (Is Stormy Daniels more sane than Trump or was she crazy to service him?)
e. Is sociopathy organic, psychological, or treatable? How much is it dependent on the state of the body and how much is it controlled by the needs of the society? Plainly, the latter is operative.
f. Religion gets into it, but that's another post.
f. Religion gets into it, but that's another post.
19. Because rebels and dissenters are often defended against by accusing them of being insane, that might give Trump the argument that he is reforming us to the most genuine worldview where the superiors (namely himself) are in charge. (Also, mafia, of course.)
20. DNA would reveal his inheritance of dementia from his father. Possible predict the same for his children.
This is not 1,000 words yet, but the whole thing is making me crazy, so I’m going to stop and go take a shower. Do not call me up. Daines will do it — he does three times a day with robocall and I’m becoming very rude. He's like Trump, believing that something is effective when it only makes me hate him more.
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