Time and again during the Congressional hearings on the January 6 attack on the Capitol, the legislators and witnesses struggled to understand how Donald Trump could just flat-out deny he had lost the 2020 election.
Strikes me that "scheming" is valuable as an adjunct to "working", (an activity on which many of our western ethics/role models are focussed) but becomes dangerous when unaccompanied. EG Capital applied to industry is good; capital applied to dead-calorie financial instruments (eg betting on a bust without a direct interest to protect) not so good.
I think what is new (or *feels* new) is the naked display of these traits. And now there's a candidate for senate in Missouri who seems to be inspired by what we have seen. More naked than his role model! The incarcerated folks you met were sneaky at some point in the trajectory. The 45th was not especially covert or sneaky, imho. It's all there.
Thank you John! This is all so very true for those of us who watched the almost unbelieveable 6th January 2021 "event" and the previous 4 years of Trump in power! Yet Trump still seems to be popular with so many Republican high flyers and voters, rightly disenchanted by Democrat policies.
The stupid gangster and mass murderer, Putin, whom Trump clearly admired, is of a similar ilk, of course. We Europeans are rightly in a state of chaos because our "leaders" must surely have recognised this but found it "convenient" to pretend otherwise?
Great insight! What conditions form a personality whose motivation is to dominate rather than achieve goals through cooperation? That is our social challenge. Trump’s upbringing offers guideposts.
Strikes me that "scheming" is valuable as an adjunct to "working", (an activity on which many of our western ethics/role models are focussed) but becomes dangerous when unaccompanied. EG Capital applied to industry is good; capital applied to dead-calorie financial instruments (eg betting on a bust without a direct interest to protect) not so good.
I think what is new (or *feels* new) is the naked display of these traits. And now there's a candidate for senate in Missouri who seems to be inspired by what we have seen. More naked than his role model! The incarcerated folks you met were sneaky at some point in the trajectory. The 45th was not especially covert or sneaky, imho. It's all there.
Greitens is a nightmare. Hope he comes to nothing, goes broke and becomes an old inmate yelling at the TV.
Thank you John! This is all so very true for those of us who watched the almost unbelieveable 6th January 2021 "event" and the previous 4 years of Trump in power! Yet Trump still seems to be popular with so many Republican high flyers and voters, rightly disenchanted by Democrat policies.
The stupid gangster and mass murderer, Putin, whom Trump clearly admired, is of a similar ilk, of course. We Europeans are rightly in a state of chaos because our "leaders" must surely have recognised this but found it "convenient" to pretend otherwise?
We live in frightening times!
Great insight! What conditions form a personality whose motivation is to dominate rather than achieve goals through cooperation? That is our social challenge. Trump’s upbringing offers guideposts.