The Case for Psychosis

Dozens of illustrations of him being a psychopath and sociopath could be listed, going back decades, including misdeeds such as failing to pay his small-time subcontractors who, unlike him, weren’t so fortunate as to have been born into a millionaire’s family.

The apeman has no idea of what responsibility is, or what constitutes real work, because he hasn’t had to work a single day in his life. He’s had the leisure to tinker with real-estate and marketing scams his entire life, and call it “work”, and that’s about it.

I’ve written quite a few blog articles about him, going back to before the election. For example, in this article from August 2016, I argued that the media should boycott him. Of course they didn’t boycott him – instead, they helped elect him President, and the media have been suffering for it ever since.

In this article from Election eve, 1 day before his victory, I argued why it was essential for Hillary Clinton to win, given the other candidate’s psychotic traits.

Since I’m a language professional (and my Facebook debater is, too, I believe), the thing I find most offensive about the apeman is his habitual perversion of language. One might initially think that that was some kind of smart “media strategy” developed in order to deceive the audience; but no, with every passing month, it’s become clearer and clearer that it is, in fact, psychosis.

The apeman is living in a world of his imagination (hallucinations), in a separate alternate universe, and is trying to foist it on everyone else around him (the world at large, actually), just like you’d expect from a mad dictator.

The (only?) difference between the apeman and Hitler, I’ve been arguing, is that American democratic institutions still prevent him (at least for now) from doing however he pleases, following this or that rush of momentary, ever-changing and often self-contradictory impulse and emotional outburst (see his Twitter feed, already much edited by his staff – “exhibit A” in the psychosis case).

Take his assertion from a few days ago, that his “poll (popularity) numbers are through the roof”. In reality, of course, all the polls show he’s the most unpopular US president in recorded history.

To have someone in the supreme position of power who, instead of reality, inhabits a world of his narcissistic delusions, and whose intellect – according to his own staff – corresponds to that of a fifth-grade or sixth-grade middle-schooler, is extremely dangerous for America and the world, including Slovakia. That’s exactly what that New York Times anonymous op-ed from a few days ago is talking about.