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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWe don't understand the "code".
Michael Cohen told us about how Trump spoke in code. "His" people (Trumpers) understand when he is talking in code.
That is why they heard something different when he talked about injecting light and disinfectant into patients bodies. That is why they heard something different when he spoke of "liberating" MI, MN, and VA. They heard that it was time to hit the streets and protest. And they did.
They hear what they want to hear because they feel like they have always been a persecuted minority until Trump came along. He makes them feel good. He makes them feel like they are the majority in this country. They hear dog whistles that the average person cannot hear.
FM123
(10,053 posts)I_UndergroundPanther
(12,463 posts)Pathology is the filter thier hearing goes through before it is comprehended, so the sounds are not heard like the people without certain pathologies hear it.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)We all have our own world view, almost like a uniquely tinted pair of glasses. With them, it is the cult leader... 🤮
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,463 posts)They interpret thier worldview in such a way as to:
Greatly inhibit or even prevent the development of their ability to experience compassion, empathy or conscience, as well as certain emotions such as guilt or shame, as normals do -
Just as color blind people cannot see colors like normally-sighted people, those with these psychopathologies, especially in their more extreme forms, simply cannot access these capacities or generate or appreciate these feelings in the same ways as normals.
http://www.systemsthinker.com/interests/systemsthinking/humansystems/pathocracy.shtml
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)They are certifiably insane. 👍
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)What exactly is it they hear when he talks nonsense about disinfectant and the like?
The reason Trump and his crew have spent the day sulking about and walking it back is because it sounds even to his own people like dangerous idiocy.
kentuck
(111,085 posts)They are a cult.
His message to them was that they did not have to understand what he was talking about but only that they trust him to know what is best for them.
a kennedy
(29,655 posts)kentuck
(111,085 posts)..the first step is to beat them at the polls.
Put them back in the minority for a long time.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,463 posts)And they cannot be cured,it's thier personality that's the problem. It's who they are.
LeftInTX
(25,285 posts)Like disinfecting blood and using UV. He sees something in a report about UV killing the virus, then stupidly he starts yakking crazy about putting UV inside a body...when it isn't feasible, but he thinks it might be cool if it worked, but it's not going to work. He talks like he's in a bar yakking to his friends about crazy hypotheticals and he forgets he's President of the United States...or doesn't realize he can't say those things cuz he's POTUS. (God I sound like Trump, trying to explain him!!) He's so immature!!!
Blue Owl
(50,355 posts)Donnie needs a new diaper
lame54
(35,287 posts)It was a direct order that we all understood
kentuck
(111,085 posts)...and tempting fate as if it was all fake news.
dawg
(10,624 posts)Who knew?