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Is it possible if Americans elected a President who turns out to be psychotic while in office could lead to his voters ending up as psychotic as well?

Asked by mazingerz88 (29261points) December 28th, 2019 from iPhone

Not just in America, so if a psycho President does insane things in office and his voters remain loyal no matter what he does, wouldn’t that mean those voters have all gone psychos as well?

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Patty_Melt's avatar

No.

Consider a moment how many people out there who are psychotic. Of course most are employed. If hiring those people would end up leading the employers to “catch” psychosis, employment applications would be required to include a disclaimer.

NoMoreY_Aagain's avatar

Yes. Watched the news lately? Trump could shoot some guy in public and his supporters would say it was really Hillary in drag.

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

I get psychotic and psychopath mixed up.

NoMoreY_Aagain's avatar

Trump psychotic / Trump fans
psychopaths. Clear it up any?

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

@NoMoreY_Aagain No. I don’t see 100 million psychoticcs in the usa.

NoMoreY_Aagain's avatar

@RedDeerGuy1 The other 100 million voted for Hillary. Six of one a half dozen of the other.

NoMoreY_Aagain's avatar

You’re welcome my friend. ; )

elbanditoroso's avatar

I think it’s already happening.

kritiper's avatar

Everybody is at least a little crazy. It’s always been that way, with or without politics.

Yellowdog's avatar

I think Trump Derangement Syndrome is very real.

Have you ever seen so much discord coming from the left and their followers?

They are like the wicked witch of the west’s army clawing and chopping at the doors.

janbb's avatar

^^ Actually, yeah. Only I think it was called Obama Derangement Syndrome a few years ago!

Dutchess_III's avatar

Since trump’s election I’ve watched friends and family member’s personalities start to decay. They’ve become really hostile in general, whether trump is being mentioned or not. They’ve become more closed minded and belligerent. It’s just a dumbing down, a reducing, of an entire segment of the population.
Even in this small town we’ve had incidents of blatant Muslim racism since trump took office. If that kind of thing was going on before, it was in private. Now it’s in public.
My two beautiful daughters both report increased instances of sexual harassment.

Jons_Blond's avatar

@Yellowdog It’s deeply depressing that you can’t see that people are hurting due to Trump’s words and policies and you think of them as deranged.

NoMoreY_Aagain's avatar

They’re deranged because they oppose Trump? But conservatives and repubs who still obsess on Obama and Hillary are perfectly normal I assume? News Flash: Obama left office over 3 years ago. Give it rest. “Hillary Billary Dock, Obama Ran Up the Clock”. There, beat ya to it. Happy now?

Yellowdog's avatar

Obama and Hillary—their campaign for Hillary and its utilization of Russian propaganda (the dossier) and the destruction of emails and devices used against Trump—has never been brought to justice and has only been under investigation since the spring of 2019. Its not an ‘obsession’ from something Obamanable in the past. Much of it is currently still alive and well.

mazingerz88's avatar

^^Oooomg….fantasy land, fantasy land…wake up to reality…waaaake up…stop following that fox into the deep woods….wake uuuuuuppp…

Patty_Melt's avatar

Alllllllll right now, shake it off folks!
Take your partner by the hand
Bow real deep then allemande
No poking eyes
No punching nose
Just promenade
And see how it goes.
YEEEEHAWWW!

NoMoreY_Aagain's avatar

Backs away, slowly…

Smashley's avatar

It’s possible. A leader’s personality has a lot to do with the direction of the country. Some of it is cause, some it effect. Regans promotion of bigotry and corruption for the sake of corporate profit has had a lasting effect on the country. Bush 1s zealotry, has a lot to do with incarceration rates. Clinton’s understated racism and sexism was a nice unifying model for white people to follow for twenty years. Bush.. well.. we’re still in his wars, we continue to pay gobs of money into asymmetric warfare, while he’s off painting, and we’re basically committed to having a military role in the Middle East until they kick us out, though for political reasons we swapped US troop casualties for civilian ones.

Obama did something. It’s hard to tell right now, given temporal proximity.

I could speculate about the state of the country today, but it would be too colored by my biases and my perspective. That said, I do see a widespread adoption of Trumps rhetorical style among Republicans. Whether that will become the new normal, or if the bums will all be thrown on their asses is hard to say right now.

Patty_Melt's avatar

Perspective? Your perspective is wayyyyy off.

Smashley's avatar

You are wrong.

Yellowdog's avatar

A President who turns out to be psychotic while in office could lead to his voters ending up as psychotic as well?

If you mean Trump, evidently so!

Most of the country is psychotic now and over 300 million are so psychotic they will vote for him.

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