It is the very nature of dyslexics like Trump to get their information

[applegrove]

in a concrete way from various sources. Someone in the tribe has to be good at the big picture and bad at mass fictions. Why people voted for Trump: in this time of rapid technological change and globalization he promises to pull all the systems down. Great if your tribe has turned into a murderous cult led by psychopaths (think Churchill the dyslexic vs. Hitler the psychopath). But that is the secret of dyslexics. They can't be spoonfed policy. Dyslexics simply cannot be spoonfed information. They have to suss it out for themselves. No amount of professional us government policy, policy that puts complex American needs to the forefront, is going to make it into a coherent form into Trump's brain in the short term. Long term maybe. He is always going to be attracted to and need all points of view from outside sources. Right now it is Russia that sings to him. He will always more heavily weigh outlier information as it will come to him in a 3D fashion, particularly from strongmen, as what they do is very dramatic. Primary information is what researchers and dyslexics love. He has already turned away daily intelligence briefings. I doubt economic policy is going to be more compelling than that. We are definitely in trouble.

[gordianot]

1. John Kennedy the last highly promoted dyslexic I remember would have got a laugh at that.

John Kennedy compensated very well as did Nelson Rockefeller.

I think you might be more worried about early stages of Alzheimer's (Reagan), juvenile emotional parental abandonment (George W), serious personality disorders (Nixon) and now Donald Trump who shows elements of all the maladies of the highly unprepared ambitious.

[applegrove]

3. Oh dyslexics can be fantastic leaders if they have a high enough IQ and

are curious. Woodrow Wilson, Churchill, Jack Kennedy (highest IQ for any president), Rockefeller, Paul Wellstone all highly talented dyslexic leaders. Both Bushes and Reagan are dyslexic too but allowed others to do all their thinking. They were surrounded over decades with GOP low regulations and taxes one two step to slowly coddle their brains. George H. W. Bush tried to think for himself regarding voodoo economics though, and they punished him for it.

Dyslexics can read a crowd. And give speeches that reek of authenticity. They are good counterpunchers. They are called 'natural politicians' And they win elections. The first group were so successful because they were so interested in the world and well read and brilliant. The second group didn't think for themselves but towed the GOP line. They didn't make the country better. Trump is only interested in things and people if they somehow make his life better and appeal to his ego or give him a chance to win. He is in a category all unto himself. But dyslexic he is intellectually. He is a liar and a selfish brat and a whole host of other things that have nothing to do with dyslexia.

[cwydro]

2. I think this Shitgibbon is awful.

But do we have to bring dyslexia into the conversation?

His problems are far beyond that. He is a sociopath, imo.

[applegrove]

4. I don't think he is a sociopath. He's just surrounded himself with them

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his whole adult life. And I brought up the dyslexia because I am talking about how Trump processes information and it is germain.

[cwydro]

5. Yes, I think you are probably right on the dyslexia.

However, I do think he is a sociopath.

He lies continually, and he does not know that what he says is a lie.

He is a sociopath. And he is about to be our president.

I am horrified.

[dionysus]

7. Why being jermaine jackson into this? Oh, germane...

[applegrove]

8. Thanks. I stand corrected.

[dionysus]

9. Sorry, i couldn't resist being silly...

[Hekate]

6. Watch the two Frontline shows on Trump. I watched the one recently that pulled bio material ....

....from the first one. Nothing really said dyslexia to me (my first husband is dyslexic) -- but so much just screamed that his brain has been broken from earliest childhood. Norms do not apply to him, only infantile ego gratification.

In addition, his utterances over the past year indicate to an awful lot of us some form of dementia, which his family of enablers compensate for.

He ran a con with reality tv while still in possession of his faculties. The con showed all those folks who long for a strongman to tell them what to think that he'd be just dandy as POTUS, democracy be damned.