• MAGA-looniness CAN all make sense...

    From Fascist Flea@21:1/5 to All on Tue Nov 7 12:04:38 2023
    ... according to Forensic psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee.
    Excerpt from an interview in Scientific American:

    []
    What attracts people to Trump?
    What is their animus or driving force?

    The reasons are multiple and varied, but in my recent
    public-service book, Profile of a Nation, I have outlined
    two major emotional drives: narcissistic symbiosis and
    shared psychosis. Narcissistic symbiosis refers to the
    developmental wounds that make the leader-follower
    relationship magnetically attractive. The leader, hungry for
    adulation to compensate for an inner lack of self-worth,
    projects grandiose omnipotence—while the followers,
    rendered needy by societal stress or developmental injury,
    yearn for a parental figure. When such wounded individuals
    are given positions of power, they arouse similar pathology
    in the population that creates a “lock and key” relationship.
    []

    See, Witless? You illness can at least be diagnosed.
    There may be hope for you yet.

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