Wry Catcher
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Your list reflects aspects of the human condition. It reminds me of a time when I asked a detective how could I be sure to never hire another embezzler for the rest of my business life. He looked at me and said "You really want to know how to tell who steals and who doesn't and how we can prevent this?" I affirmed that yes, I'd like to know. His answer? "We don't know, either."Below copied from my copy of the DSM-IV, made easy: The Clinician's Guide to Diagnosis, by Dr, James Morrison (pg. 461)
GENERAL CRITERIA FOR PERSONALITY DISORDERS:
A lasting pattern of behavior and inner experience that markedly deviates from norms of the patient's culture; The pattern is manifested in at least two of these areas:
***Cluster A:
- Affect (appropriateness, intensity, lability, and range of emotions
- Cognition (how the patient perceives and interprets self, others and events)
- Impulse control
- Interpersonal functioning.
- This pattern is fixed and effects many personal and social situations
- This stable pattern has lasted a long time with roots in adolescence or young adulthood
- The pattern isn't explained by another medical disorder
- It isn't caused by a general medical condition or by the use of substances, including medications
Paranoid: These people are suspicious and quick to take offense. They often have few confidants and may read hidden meanings into innocent remarks.
Cluster B:
Antisocial: as adults they may default on debts, or otherwise show irresponsibility; act recklessly or impulsively; and show no remorse for their behavior.
Histrionic:
Overly emotional, vague and attention-seeking; needing constant reassurance, self centered and sexually seductive.
Narcissistic: These people are self important and often preoccupied with envy, fantasies, or ruminations about the uniqueness of their own problems. Their sense of entitlement and lack of empathy may cause them to take advantage of others. The vigorously reject criticism, and need constant attention and admiration.
Cluster C:
Dependent:
These people need the approval of other so much that they have trouble making independent decisions, or starting projects; they may even agree with others whom they know to be wrong. They fear abandonment, feel helpless when they are alone, and are miserable when relationships end. The are easily hurt by criticism and will even volunteer for unpleasant tasks to gain the favor of others.
Consider these are very general and not all bullet points will apply to The Donald, but many do. Focus now on the more comprehensive discussion on Narcissistic Personality Disorder: 301.81 (pg 485)
Beginning by early adult life, grandiosity (real or fantasized), lack of empathy, and need for admiration are present in a variety of situations and shown by at least five of these:
Too many of these bullet points reflect the behavior of Donald Trump to be dismissed. The question, however, is this: is he qualified to be or remain The Most Powerful person in the world?
- A grandiose sense of self importance (patient exaggerates own abilities and accomplishments)
- Preoccupation with fantasies of beauty, brilliance, ideal love, power, or limitless success
- Belief that personal uniqueness renders the patient for only associations with (or understanding by) people or institutions of rarefied status
- Need for excessive admiration
- A sense of entitlement (patient unreasonably expects favorable treatment or automatic granting of his own wishes
- Exploitation of others to achieve personal goals
- Lack of empathy (patient does not recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others)
- Frequent envy of others or belief that others envy patient
- Arrogance or haughtiness in attitude or behavior
You could take every human being on this planet, devise an elaborate narrative about them and deduct whatever you want to, but it's apparent to me you wouldn't dare do this rundown on Hillary Rodham because when she isn't doing something illegal where you can see her doing it, you don't see most of it until you have it examined by the very people Hillary controlled, because she had private information on everyone who the FBI have ever looked into, found the fault, and exploited it when beneficial to herself. Collaborators? Many of hers were worse than anyone they ever went after with their bludgeoning from the spin room. She also had in her possession dossiers on every FBI agent she could turn with false narratives. She skiied on the surface of the new information age. The only problem was, her criminal side was too well known for all the paid lawyers this side of the Atlantic to defend her rather bad reputation of betraying every good thing the conservatives of the land have done and she betrayed almost as many of her fellow Democrats as she did the rest of us.
And you are totally, completely, unequivocally disinterested in knowing bad things about Hillary Clinton from her lie, "I forget," to her most recent crime of concealment of information belonging to the American people she hid on the computer she bleach-bit and axed to smithereens when that was done. She's a liar and that was the largest obstruction of justice the entire Democrat family refused to notice on their way to the winner-takes-all wreath of roses.
The package of lies surrounding her alleged leads in the polls? Paid for phony polls to elicit a go-with-the-majority mindset of people who hadn't a clue who they were going to vote for 5 minutes before they arrived at the voting booth.
The only trouble with that must win thesis is that hypothetically, it discounted mature people who lived through her "I forget" bullshit and never trusted a Clinton even once after that. Those people in that category somehow may have accidentally on a purpose, missed getting polled for reasons only a crook pollster would know. And shill pollsters with an agenda know how to skew their own findings, because hypothetically, they're the ones who know how to omit a segment that might prevent them from earning the big bucks for their compliance with payors.
Just sayin'...
HRC is not President of the United States. Trump is, and he is unfit no matter what metric is applied.
But the point is, the left wing gave us Hillary as an option. Millions of people voted for that immoral crazy person, to be president.
Now you are complaining that Trump is unfit to be president.
Well you don't really have room to complain. You supported Hillary, did you not?
If you supported Hillary over Trump.... then you are being a hypocrite right now. Hillary was much worse than Trump.
Honestly, I hated both options. I would have much rather had someone else over either of them, which is why I voted for a 3rd party candidate.
But the lesser of the two evils was Trump. I know why people voted for Trump. It's because for most people the only other option was the detestable Hillary.
STATEMENTS: "Hillary was much worse than Trump...But the lesser of the two evils was Trump"
RESPONSE: You haven't posted any evidence, and if you did I suspect you would offer nothing as substantial as I have in re trump.
One cannot be sure how effective HRC would have been, had she been elected and not trump. However, I'm 99.9% certain the chaos created by trumps childish temperament, impulsive behaviors and flip flops will be found by historians to be the worst POTUS.
HRC was around politics for decades, served as First Lady and as a US Senator and Sect. of State. Her background alone assured me that she would not have led us into the myriad of problems trump has created.