Support for Donald Trump is linked to darker personality traits, including increased psychopathy and decreased empathy, new research finds. The study also connects conservative political beliefs to lower benevolence, suggesting personality may shape how people engage with politics and ideology.
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
This second term is far worse. Traveled Mississippi with my Asian wife last weekend. Folks were not nearly as friendly as usual. I was like, the fuck?
She’s Filipino (half-Japanese), so basically an Asian Mexican, and no shit, these white racists can’t tell the difference. Did the slanty eyes not clue you in?!
Only times I’ve felt unwelcome in that state was 20-years ago when blacks gave my white-ass the side eye. Now black folk are friendly enough and it’s the whites looking at me funny.
Expecting that whole state to collapse in on itself like the house at the end of Poltergeist.