In a few years' time, we'll think of trumpkins desperately trying to interpret and reinterpret Drumpf's ramblings the same way we think of devotees trying to make sense of people rolling around on the floor speaking in tongues, or people who claim their cats speak a language only they can understand.
Or we'll be living in fascist dictatorship, but I mean, I'm holding out hope for the former.
Actually, this gives me an idea. You know that experiment they did a while back, where they put together sentences of gibberish and presented them as words of wisdom, and asked people what they thought of them? Now I want to do something like that for trumpkins. Make a list of gibberish nonsense statements, with some paragraphs thrown in of writing by psychotic people and others deep in various mental or cognitive states. Present them as things Drumpf have said. See how many gush over them with a straight face and are genuenely impressed.
Come to think of it, now I want to actually give it a try on various forums https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clangingd see what happens. I googled "Examples of writing by people in psychosis" and came up blank, but I can try to ask ChatGPT to give me some hypothetical examples when I get home.
Edit: Oh, oh, oh. The article Clanging (that's when someone has schizophrenia and it makes them talk like Drumpf) has a perfect example:
Fits the "They are eating the pets" theme perfectly. I'll try this and see what they think.
I'm starting to wonder if this project deserves its own thread.
This popped up on an kindle deal last week
The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control
It is a new year, an election year, with impeachment looming and the Iranian conflict-funnily enough, this book is not about the President of the United States. It's all about cults.
First, author Steven Hassan is not a psychiatrist and this ethical principle applies only to psychiatrists who are members of the APA. Secondly, and subtitle aside, the focus is on cults and how people become attached to them, with President Trump as a crucially considered example.
