Defeating Pathological Liars in Time To Save Democracy
Setting boundaries
While listening to a smart woman tell me about chem trails and alien cows and how it all adds up to loving ‘The Putin,’ I face palmed. Another mind hacked just in time for November’s election.
What we have here is a failure to communicate.
We have called illegitimately elected men “President” for far too long.
Let’s call them what they really are, pathological liars engaging in psychological torture.
Putin, Trump, Flynn, Stone, Jones, Carlson, Solovyov, and Simonan, are pathological liars and rather than parrot their lies, let’s set some boundaries, shall we?
Sure, maybe they didn’t get their needs met as kids blah blah blah, but their pathological lies have created an abusive relationship with reality and the world at large.
So rather than take it personally or expect them to change, our job as non-enabling global partners is to stay rooted in reality, to trust ourselves and what we know to be true, to surround ourselves with other fact-based allies, who confirm they live beside us in reality.
Rather than focusing on what pathological liars have to say, watch their actions: Putin is a murderer and war criminal trafficking children from Ukraine; Trump is a broke ass, democratic wrecking ball who is trying to overthrow America for Moscow; the rest of the aforementioned lot are doing everything to assist in the effort to turn America into a fascist dictatorship, and we all need to set healthy boundaries and stay grounded in truth.
Our goal as empathetic humans should be to apply pressure wherever necessary to remove pathological liars engaging in psychological torture from power as swiftly as possible.
Once they are removed from the general population, they can address their underlying mental health conditions in group therapy in the gulag.
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