[FRIAM] Reasons why we elect narcissists

[Jochen Fromm]

IMO the 45th president is a unique example of NPD. The following "Psychology Today" article says that "severe narcissists were likely emotionally injured at a crucial time in their development". For Donald this might have been the time when his parents sent him as a young kid to a private school. https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/insight-is-2020/201807/what-makes-some-narcissists-mean-competitive-and-jealousPropaganda on Fox News and Facebook might be a one major reason for the success at his base. We don't get Fox News here in Europe, but I've heard it is quite different from ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN. We can watch CNN, thoughhttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/11/the-making-of-the-fox-news-white-house-Jochen
-------- Original message --------From: Gillian Densmore <gil.densmore at gmail.com> Date: 5/8/19  15:43  (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Reasons why we elect narcissists Well takes a certain kind of person that's not exactly all their to want to try wrangling 500 egotistical aholes to even get into the same room much less keep the countery from go careening off the deepend. So yeah I'd imagine not to much of  a strech that a ahole jerk, and infamous internet troll resonates with people that think in their mind at least "tells it like it is" in a weird rambling tangetle folky drunken bar style of talking.  The "southern boy" from next door stereo type.People have said who evers POTUS reall has to stop talking over peoples head. Carter, in recordings was pretty at that. FDR (also from recordings) was equally good at that. B.Clinton tried, and at least IMO opinion suceeded . I guess people that've been around a while got tired of the the H.Clintons and JFK's speaking over their head. ,  I guess guess because of how they process things people that look roughly like Marcos (wedtech) or Obama  are the bain of all.  Not true at all. But a troll plays on their irational bonkerness and 45's verbage and language patterns is what they relate to. It's a lot like Reagans and Nixons.Both were basically pretty close to being Narscistic, or at least trolling well enough for them to think their BS was worth buying into.On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 5:55 AM Jochen Fromm <jofr at cas-group.net> wrote:Given that the 45th president clearly shows  signs of severe NPD, which we discussed already 2 years ago, I thought you would perhaps be interested in this Psychology Today article titled "4 Reasons Why We Elect Narcissists and Sociopaths"https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/5-types-people-who-can-ruin-your-life/201905/4-reasons-why-we-elect-narcissists-and-sociopathsIt discusses the recent book from Bill Eddyhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/606614/why-we-elect-narcissists-and-sociopathsand-how-we-can-stop-by-bill-eddy/-Jochen  ============================================================
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