Jochen, Nick,
I have the same concerns. Thx for speaking up.
Grant
On 1/11/17 12:11 AM, Nick Thompson wrote:
Hi, Jochen,
I tried a couple of weeks ago to get everybody worried about this and
nobody bit. Briefly, in the first few months Trump discovers that he
cannot do anything domestically because … alas …. of the
constitution. He then promotes riots in the streets followed by the
“reluctant” imposition of martial law. Or, he turns to foreign policy
and gets into a lovers spat with Putin and reaches for the football.
The only comfort I have is that I knew people in 2008 and 2012 who
were as afraid of Obama as I am of Trump, and nothing bad happened.
Well, nothing bad happened because of Obama.
The problem may be that it’s SO scary that we don’t know where to
start. There are demonstrations planned all over the country, locally
this week, and in Washington after the Inauguration. While these may
prevent Trump from doing anything legislatively, it surely does
address the existential crisis that lurks beyond these early
frustrations.
According to the Constitution, the present may be declared incompetent
by a majority of his senior administration … Cabinet, mostly I think.
But notice that he has stacked the cabinet with people who are, if
anything, loonier than he is, so I very much doubt that any of them
would vote to remove him. Maddis, perhaps, but that’s about it.
Impeachment is a very real possibility, but it takes a lot of time,
and a crazy President has enormous power to make the country pay for
trying.
I have a few pro-Trumpers who reassure me that no rational man would
take the kinds of risks that I fear, that like all bullies he will
back down when he sees that his tantrums aren’t getting anywhere. But
what if he’s not a rational man? What then?
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
<http://home.earthlink.net/%7Enickthompson/naturaldesigns/>
*From:*Friam [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Jochen
Fromm
*Sent:* Tuesday, January 10, 2017 11:55 PM
*To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
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*Subject:* [FRIAM] Is the new president mentally ill?
I posted this on Google+, since we have a lot of psychologists here
you might be interested too?
Psychologists, therapists and mental health professionals seem to be
fascinated and terrified alike by the new president who has not only
become a brand, but is nothing but a brand:
1. he seems to be a textbook case of a narcissistic personality disorder
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-greene/is-donald-trump-mentally_b_13693174.html
2. he was elected although he imitates the behavior of an massive
Internet troll
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-embodied-mind/201701/unified-theory-trump
3. he displays a total lack of honesty and truth-telling
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/
All DSM-5 criteria of a narcissistic personality disorder seem to be
fulfilled. Should we be worried? What do you think? He shows a clear
need for instant retaliation if someone criticizes him, which is
obviously some form a narcissistic rage. It is clearly more than a
self-serving bias, and such a deep personality disorder is not
harmless at all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-serving_bias
The problem is he is in a position where he can pull the strings now,
as the commander in chief of the most powerful army. The US has about
2000 nuclear weapons on high alert, and there is a soldier with the
nuclear football following the president at all times. What could go
wrong?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_football
-Jochen
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