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Trump Debasement Syndrome
Summary: Rather than Trump Derangement Syndrome millions of Americans are suffering from Trump Debasement Syndrome. Below is a detailed description of the syndrome and at the bottom is the treatment plan.
Yesterday Rand Paul who pretends to be a doctor pretending to be an independent thinker pretending to be a patriot pretending to be a Senator went to the floor of the Senate to describe what he thought was a tremendously funny new condition: Trump Derangement Syndrome, namely people who have become disproportionately unbalanced because of an unreasonable hatred of Donald Trump.
Hatred of Donald Trump is the only reasonable response to Donald Trump.
Rather than witnessing Trump Derangement Syndrome we are witnessing Trump Debasement Syndrome among people who have experienced significant changes in thinking or behavior because of Trump in such a way that they have debased themselves, lost their self respect and have sunk into a complete debasing of any real values that they had.
There are three main categories of TDS with the most heavily damaged category having two sub categories for a total of 4 possible types of classifications.
Below is a specific description of the 4 categories and how you can help each of these afflicted groups recover.
Category One Elected Officials
Type A Elected Officials in Lock Step
These people have witnessed the President of the United States engage in a renunciation of its basic values enshrined in government policy and growled in private and self medicated but done nothing. Many of these people were quite vocal before the Republican Party handed the keys of their party to Trump but are quite seriously afflicted now.
They know that the President is a reflexive and daily liar. They know that he has assaulted women. They know that he is a racist. They know that he is a dangerously narcissistic leader whose constant need for ego reinforcing adulation makes him the most dangerous person on earth today. They know that he makes policy off the cuff that in many cases, like his trade war and his submission to Russia, is 100% against their previously held public positions. As the total description of everything Trump has done that these people actually disagree with runs 185 pages we will stay with this limited description
Known Cases: We have confirmed 47 US Republican Senators and 235 US Republican Congressmen
Main symptom: Complete loss of self respect, total debasing of everything they ever stood for. They have accepted a stooge like personality hoping that they can survive at least until the next election when, they have deceived themselves, that they will take steps to recover their self esteem.
Unfortunately its too late. There is no self esteem left. Gone.
Type B Elected Officials who have made symbolic acts of dissonance
These are elected officials who, like those above, know that Trump is a traitor to basic American values and have spoken up but still refuse to break 100% with the President and are partially debased.
A clear example of this is when Senator Corker stated that he would not vote for any budget that would add one penny to the budget and then voted for a budget with $ 1 1/2 trillion annual debt.
Other confirmed cases are Senator McCain, Senator Flake and Congressman Hurd. Congressman Hurd looks to be the first Republican to recover his dignity by openly stating that "Trump is being manipulated by Putin" but we cannot confirm a recovery until he has maintained independence for a month as relapse is very common.
Type Two Administration officials
While there are varying degrees of affected cases it should be pointed out that not every administration official is affected by TDS. Some, like Stephen Miller, were batshit crazy before Trump ever came on the political scene so could not be further debased. The other 98% of administration officials were regular Bush Republicans or Wall Street Republicans or Wing Nut Republicans but now have doubled up with TDS to become "Really Despicable Republicans".
Known cases: Several hundred administration officials and several dozen ex administration officials.
There is an especially strange subset here that combined the batshit crazy of Miller and are additionally debased by TDS. The poster child of this group is John Bolton. He was completely batshit crazy before he joined the administration but had well publicized concrete stands, like hard rail denouncing of Putin, that he has now pretended to change 180 degrees on.
These particularly pathetic people suffer from the particularly virulent Batshit Trump Debasement Syndrome.
Type Three Trump Supporters
These are particularly vexing cases numbering in the tens of millions. They continue to irrationally debase themselves like those listed above except in these cases they have absolutely nothing to gain from being debased.
In fact most of them are going to suffer mightily from the policies of Trump.
And yet they persist.
Prognosis and Treatment
It appears that there is no way that the millions affected are able to find their way to recovery of their self respect and return to using their cognitive facilities.
Without intervention there is no hope that anyone suffering from Trump Debasement Syndrome has any chance to recover.
The only treatment is to vote out of office every single Republican office holder at every level. This will give the body politic of Republicans the shock it needs to rid itself of the Trump Debasement Syndrome. The survivors will then be left with confronting a racist lunatic period of their life and it is thought that giving all Republican Office holders a good 10 years of quiet reflection out of office will help them eventually return to a semi respectable political consciousness.
Do your part. Vote out every Republican. Its in their best mental health interest.
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