We live in an age of deception and and age in which image is all important for becoming elected to a high political office. To get elected to President you must have an appealing image. Trump has good image, even though he is seventy years old. He has charisma or charm and is a celebrity. If he were not a celebrity, he would not be President. Hillary tried to rely upon her gender and her past. She does not have an attractive image, though she is well-known. Being a celebrity, and having an attractive image or charisma and charm,it can be asked if Trump has some amount of "Narcissistic Personality Disorder."
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1519417-overview
"In the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), [1] NPD is defined as comprising a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), a constant need for admiration, and a lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by the presence of at least 5 of the following 9 criteria:
A grandiose sense of self-importance
A preoccupation with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
A belief that he or she is special and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people or institutions
A need for excessive admiration
A sense of entitlement
Interpersonally exploitive behavior
A lack of empathy
Envy of others or a belief that others are envious of him or her
A demonstration of arrogant and haughty behaviors or attitudes."
Remember that these criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder are from the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5). The criteria were not created from research by psychologists or other researchers.
And here is a very important part of the diagnosis of Narcissistic Personality Disorder in the DSM-5: "patients with this disorder often benefit from the use of psychiatric medications to help alleviate certain symptoms associated with the disorder or to manage concomitant axis I diagnoses. Agents that may be indicated include the following:
Antidepressants of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class (eg, citalopram)
Antipsychotics (eg, risperidone)
Mood stabilizers (eg, lamotrigine)"
A major goal of the American Psychiatric Association in defining "Narcissistic Personality Disorder" is to get more people on prescription drugs. And Psychiatric Drugs - Antidepressants and Antipsychotics - result in a dependency on the drugs and some really bad side effects. Anti-Depressant prescription drugs and violence:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0015337
"These data provide new evidence that acts of violence towards others are a genuine and serious adverse drug event that is associated with a relatively small group of drugs.........eleven of thirteen antidepressants were significantly associated with violence."
If you want to increase violence in society, prescribe antidepressants, though only a fairly small percentage of those given antidepressants end up behaving in a violent way. But for a huge percentage of users of antidepressants and Antipsychotics, these prescription drugs can change brain functioning in ways that can be disabling to various amounts.
Psychiatrists are pushers or salesmen for harmful drugs and this diminishes their credibility.
Trump might have some degree of "A belief that he or she is special and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people or institutions" and "A need for excessive admiration."
Do these traits really describe Trump? "A sense of entitlement
Interpersonally exploitive behavior,
A lack of empathy,
Envy of others or a belief that others are envious of him or her
A demonstration of arrogant and haughty behaviors or attitudes.."
Is saying Trump has the above traits an opinion or is it accurate? A good Marxist treats facts as opinions if he can get by doing so.
If many voters in 2016 had thought that Trump is "Interpersonally exploitive," has "a lack of empathy," and is "arrogant" would they have voted for him?
Trump's largest mass base of support in 2016 was male lower middle class voters in states other than California, New York, New Mexico, Colorado, Oregon, Nevada and some New England states.
Many of these lower middle class voters for Trump may not have listened to the Alternative Media, such as Infowars, Michael Savage, Breitbart News, the Drudge Report, or the Daily Caller. But Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh are on a huge number of local FM radio stations across the country, and they promoted Trump and his ideas. Hannity and Limbaugh may not have talked as much about the corporate and financial ruling elite, the role of the eugenics movement in abortion, or the Pedephile infiltration of the Democratic Party and the elite, and the hacking of the E Mails of Democratic Party operatives by WikiLeaks. But Hannity and Limbaugh exposed the lack of morals of Hillary and presented Trump and his ideas in a positive way.
But rather that rely upon opinions, ideas and talking points from the old corporate media - television to a great extent - try to be accurate in your perception of Trump.
