On mental illness

I think people want to think that Donald Trump is a genius.

I think they like that he speaks his mind, and they think that because he does, he perhaps is on the verge of a more truthful truth.

I’ve seen this phenomenon many times.

Those close to mentally ill people really want to believe that what the person is saying, especially as they spiral out of control, is tapped, is a greater truth.  It’s confusing.  Especially when the mentally ill person is dynamic and charismatic, ie like Donald Trump.

I have looked down the barrel of that gun both ways.  The mentally ill aren’t genius.  They are out-of-it and they are ill.

Donald Trump is not some rogue savior.

He just desperately wants to be liked, and with even more desperation, he needs to be in control.  This is all about his ego, and somewhere along the line, his mind has pushed past sanity into dark terrain.

I say any leader who is not willing to lose their leadership by making tough fair calls, is not suited to be a leader.  Any person not willing to call out hate because he/she is worried about their constituent base, has no basis being a leader.

I guess there are people in this country who really think that some other person, some “black” person, or some “jewish” person, or some “white” person, or some “immigrant” is the cause of their pain.  I feel for them.

But that is just a stupid, uneducated, lazy and irresponsible notion.

And people who do not wish us well around the world will and are taking advantage of our stupidity and our laziness.

A real leader would stand above the fray.

I don’t think necessarily a very rich person could not be a good leader.  But perhaps somebody who has had the ability to buy themselves out of any situation has never learned anything about life, and/or people, and/or themselves.

Come on America, we are better than this.