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He follows his own reality (Original Post) tomhagen May 2019 OP
The problem is deeper, because if it was trump alonethen we can work on that Perseus May 2019 #1
"Solipsistic reality" said one of these psychologists. earthshine May 2019 #2
 

Perseus

(4,341 posts)
1. The problem is deeper, because if it was trump alonethen we can work on that
Sun May 26, 2019, 10:49 AM
May 2019

But the problem is much bigger, the head of the snake is bigger because it involves many in the republican party, Vladimir Putin, and the entire trump family.

I don't like to say "we are screwed" and I dislike it when people say that, I only want to point out that the fight is bigger than many people think.

The buffoon has been used as a decoy very successfully by the republican party, he makes a lot of noise allowing the crooks in the background to do the dirty work every day. The ideas to cage children, to reverse social and economic laws that took years to pass doesn't come from the buffoon, and it won't end once the buffoon is taken out of office, the problem is bigger and will continue if we don't get rid of the republicans in the Senate, such as Mitch McConnell, Jim Jordan who has been very quiet lately, Grassley, Graham, King, and others. The people behind the scenes, Kushnar, Miller, Barr, etc. must also be taken out from power, these are the people who cook up all the evil deeds, the buffoon-decoy all it does is repeat like a parrot, make a lot of noise.

I am not saying these psychiatrists are not right, what I am saying is that I believe we give the bufoon too much credit when the real problem lies behind (repubs, his family and Putin).

 

earthshine

(1,642 posts)
2. "Solipsistic reality" said one of these psychologists.
Mon May 27, 2019, 01:53 AM
May 2019
Solipsism - This is the word I have used to describe Trump in the past. It's a condition where you only believe in the reality of yourself. Other people don't matter to him. He'll throw anyone, even a close associate, under the bus, and not feel a thing.

It leads to sadism. One becomes so desperate to feel anything, one can become cruel. This man rips babies from their mothers at the border and doesn't feel a thing.

He must be removed from office one way or another.

From Wikipedia:

Solipsism; from Latin solus, meaning 'alone', and ipse, meaning 'self')[1] is the philosophical idea that only one's own mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one's own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist outside the mind. As a metaphysical position, solipsism goes further to the conclusion that the world and other minds do not exist. This extreme position is claimed to be irrefutable, as the solipsist believes himself to be the only true authority, all others being creations of their own mind.

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