Trump Is Not a Liar

A problem arises when a pundit tells us that Trump's recent speeches are a pack of lies. That description is misleading. Trump believes many of his own rants. He's authentic. 

Most political leaders are inauthentic. They calculate.  Voters can see it. 

Trump has been diagnosed by thousands of people who specialize in cognitive malfunctions. They've told us the man's brain is a pudding of incurable personality disorders and dementia. He is and always has been an idiot, shielded from reality by privilege and tall barriers of cash.

Instead of claiming that Trump is a liar, our news analysts should tell voters the truth. Trump is nuts. 

Depopulation

In 1969 we feared overpopulation, but times change. Today, scientists say, we should fear depopulation. 

We need to consider depopulation. It changes all sorts of things. 

Russian women average 1.8 children each; The country has more deaths than births. Russia is shrinking at a rate of about 60,000 people a month, not counting casualties of war. 

In China women average about one child each, less than half of what they need for stability. China has a navy made up of only children. 

In every major part of the world, with three exceptions, the population is shrinking and aging. In India, part of Africa and the USA, the populations are still growing.

Our country grows by immigration. 

Russia, Japan and China may soon lack enough young people to support their old people. The tax base is shrinking.  Businesses are closing. Pensions and health care systems may fail.  Remote communities will empty.  Frustration may lead to political extremism. 

Encouraging women to bear three children each is unlikely to help. Bearing children is a health risk for a woman, and children are expensive. A nation's best bet at the moment is to admit more immigrants. 

But most countries reject immigration. 

 

What Is Malignant Narcissism with Dementia?

It's for psychologists to define a malignant narcissist, but we can all provide an example: Adolph Hitler. 

I suppose your average (not malignant) narcissist isn't that bad. Most are not dangerous. They have inflated egos and little empathy. Think of a male lion. 

Malignant narcissists are harder to cope with. They like to hurt people. Aggression and cruelty make them very dangerous. Think of a male lion with rabies. 

A malignant narcissist with dementia is going to be especially frustrated and enraged.  And too dumb to regulate his own behavior. Think of Donald Trump.

Vote every day. Do something.

AOC

I vote every day. 

Today I will vote by sending a small check to AOC. She tries to help people. And she raises a lot of campaign money. 

She may run for higher office.

  

Disney

 My plan is to vote every day in some way. 

Today's vote:  I will banish Disney from my devices, because they suspended Jimmy Kimmel. Disney obeyed Trump, who is taking control of American media. 

We have to do something.

Often when a dictator seizes control of a democratic nation, he maintains control until he dies peacefully in bed. That can be a long wait.   

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Vote Every Day

Vote every day. Today my first, I am voting, in a sense, by permanently cancelling the shows I usually watch on ABC. 

That's no great loss to either side. 

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I Can't Get Started

When you're ninety and leaning on a stick, people treat you well. They ask what your secret is. And what is your favorite music. 

The first concert I went to featured Cab Calloway. The second starred Louis Armstrong. I regret not seeing Bunny Berigan or Joe Cocker. I hope someday to watch Lang Lang or Yuja Wang. 

You get to 90 by surviving cancer. Yesterday I asked the geezer discussion group I meet with how many had survived cancer. 

Nearly everyone. 

(Try "I Can't Get Started" with Bunny Berigan.) 

Espanol

 The Supreme Court has made it legal for ICE to arrest me if I speak Spanish. This justifies a remark made by one of my high school teachers. 

Murder

So far neither Venezuela nor the United States has released anything concrete about the identities of the eleven people our navy murdered off the coast of Venezuela. I don't know who they were.  I do know they were crowded onto a small boat without a cabin about a thousand miles from Florida. 

Trump has said the eleven were intent on smuggling drugs into the USA. But much of what this fool says is delusional nonsense he makes up on the spot. 

If the eleven were smugglers, they should have been captured and held for trial. It is against the law to murder suspects. 

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