I keep remembering how the first thing an abuser does is cut you off from friends and family. This feels like the global political version of that on an unimaginable scale.
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I keep wondering if there isn’t some value in a renaming. Having the last name of an abuser acknowledges that relationship. But changing your name breaks it to some degree. I wonder if there’s a name other than Americans we can go by to keep those relationships, at least via communication.
I empathize with the feeling and yet I feel absolutely closer to Canadians, Danes, Ukrainians & decent Americans than I have in awhile. The scale *is* difficult to imagine, but only ~80 million in billions voted for the orange filth.
However, there is no honeymoon stage, no hearts and flowers stage with this one, we are getting ripped off from the one peaceful part of the cycle of violence. It's just violence.😾
Also, accusing a country like Canada of being untrustworthy -- a place that many Americans have visited, or know someone there -- if they can get people to believe that, attacking other international relationships seems easy by comparison. Kind of like how the first thing they said back in 2017
... was that there were 1.5 million people attending the inauguration. It seemed ridiculous because there were plenty of photos and video disproving that, but amazingly a lot of people believed it. Almost like a loyalty test.
Been thinking of abuser analogies too...love bombing, telling you what you want to hear, pretending to be like you, bragging about stuff in a joking way that turns out to be serious, increasingly taunting you, triangulating against you. Amazing how toxic he is. Even used his daughter sexually.
I think Trump got so far because so many of us were abused as children and carry high ACE scores into adulthood — mental healthcare is quite expensive thus few recover adequately — so they’re susceptible to narcissistic sociopaths like their abusers whether in love, at work, or voting for Trump.
Yes. Trump's policy has been reminding me of the narcissists in my life. And it is absolutely true. "Re-shoring" manufacturing, if it actually happens, will come with the destruction unions and labor laws going back a century. There will be slave labor and child labor. And no right to protest.
It feels that way because it is that. He is a malignant narcissist. So was my father. I recognized what he was decades ago. Sadly America and the rest of the world have to deal with it.
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Why 1/3 of the people follow Fascists:
Or How Abuse shapes our world
https://substack.com/home/post/p-157788500
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-she-made-him-do-it-theory-of-everything-2/
Cult leaders do this too...
Oh, wait...