4d ago

Trump supporters report higher levels of psychopathy, manipulativeness, callousness, and narcissism

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4d ago

Trump supporters report higher levels of psychopathy, manipulativeness, callousness, and narcissism

www.psypost.org /trump-supporters-report-higher-levels-of-psychopathy-manipulativeness-callousness-and-narcissism/

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No way.
- Doing the blanket psycho-analysis on "Voters of Party X" is great content but miserable politics. You end up with this weird inversion, wherein "being angry" gets coded as "Trump supporter". And that leads to talking-head pundits accusing college protesters, angry constituents, and anyone unhappy with their sitting elected rep of being "MAGA", regardless of their actual political beliefs.
  
  No, those talking heads were going to do it anyways. You're making the mistake of assuming they're honest actors that need studies like this to give them ideas.
  
  Only when their anger aligns with major political policies of the current regime. No one is looking at someone belligerently pissed off at trans exclusion or lack of action on climate change and saying "Heh, Trump voters, ammirite!?" Yes, someone who is pissed off at gun control laws is not necessarily a Trump supporter, but if that is their main platform of concern that gets them riled up, barring any other context, it's not unusual to put them in that camp. Nor is it ultimately all that harmful, as far as I can see, to do that even if turns out to be innacurate.
I have them in my family, and I can confirm all of these traits. They've always had these traits, but they are magnified since Trump's first term, and in the second now they've flown entirely off the handle.
I've shared that in concerned with how unmarked cars full of masked men are kidnapping people, and their response was that I needed therapy. When I attended the BLM protests, they called me a fascist.
It's insane. Full stop.
- Imagine being weak enough to let an image of another human you only ever see on a television screen alter your personality and turn you into a Grade-A loser.
  A lot of humans aren't much more sentient than animals.
- Opposing state violence, the favorite pastime of fascists everywhere
nazis gonna be nazis. not unsurprising.
They're also really, really, really, really stupid.
Of course they do. Lack of empathy is their defining traits. The rest is just the result.
No Shit!
Uh doy!
I am very curious if Trump supporters have higher levels of lead poisoning https://youtu.be/vm_1XLKtGpI
test comment, please ignore
Also, they inexplicably state that three inches is enough for a good Christian woman, and vaginas aren't supposed to get wet.
Hatred is twisted empathy. Demonizing your neighbors only feeds into this. You can use this in your life. If you hate yourself and your egregious, unforgivable faults, try starting with loving others first. It reverberates back to you.
- Sorry. I don't express love toward fascists. That's a weakness fascists will take advantage of.
  
  You just readily use their tools, play their game, and dehumanize your neighbors. No way that could be beneficial to our oppressors.
And water is wet.

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