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“If America was your friend, and you knew it had married a psychopath, wouldn’t you urge it to get the divorce?” #Vote 
It’s not always about politics or policy; sometimes it’s about pathology.
Society seems too often to fail to recognize the pathologies of a human being. This contributes to the rise of too many personality-disordered individuals to positions of power.
Society seems too often to fail to recognize the pathologies of a human being. This contributes to the rise of too many personality-disordered individuals to positions of power.
Unfortunately, this can come with many detrimental consequences.
While it can be difficult to see past our own existing biases, and to recognize and overcome the cognitive and/or emotional dissonance that prevents us from seeing the truth, there are times when it’s imperative.
While it can be difficult to see past our own existing biases, and to recognize and overcome the cognitive and/or emotional dissonance that prevents us from seeing the truth, there are times when it’s imperative.
It’s difficult to think someone has intentionally lied, misled, manipulated, and inflicted psychological trauma upon someone else. It can be even more difficult to accept it when we are the victims.
While the recognition may come easier to those who have previously endured abusive and/or dysfunctional partnerships or relationships, and come out the other side, it's still difficult while we are immersed in it.
Both perception and perspective undoubtedly play a part. Seeing the pattern develop requires levels of self-awareness and psychological awareness.
Before awareness matters, though, we need a desire to look past the facade and see things as they truly are--not as we want them to be. Propagandists rely on this when they try to sell themselves as what we want them to be.
Even with rose-colored glasses, we can’t “argue away” one’s pathology. We can deny it, we can excuse it, we can even enable it, but it’s still there.
We simply must stop, shut out the noise and look at it objectively. It’s not rocket science.
We simply must stop, shut out the noise and look at it objectively. It’s not rocket science.
Typically, people are who they are. Flaws and imperfections are one thing, but destructive, psychopathic personalities are another. Psychopaths do not “change”, they do not “step up”, they do not “learn to care.”
For the last four years, America has been attacked from a White House that should hold our greatest defender.
Instead, it attacks our most cherished values:
Instead, it attacks our most cherished values:
The equality of all that the Declaration of Independence promised; the freedoms of speech, assembly, and the press that the First Amendment promised; and even the idea of a nation united and indivisible, to which so many of us have pledged our allegiance so many times
Four years ago, the nation married the man who is our current president. We have a choice for our nation's leader, a chance to urge a divorce and a fresh start. Knowing what we know now, will you urge your country to seek that divorce? I know I am. #Vote
When people show you who they are, believe them the first time. https://thedailyedge.substack.com/p/diagnosis-psychopath
