Instead get a vison of yourself as well informed,
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Instead get a vison of yourself as well informed, only a click or two or three instead of 12 steps, might sufffice.
Meanwhile, written in '16 and man did it play out over 4 years and down to this day, this evening.
Even money that howler monkeys MTG and Lauren Sloebert embarrass the shit out of a few decent Republicans....if there are such present.... and all of the Dems.
12-step groups of hate: A psychotherapist’s take on Donald Trump's wild rallies
In Trump’s presence, it’s not only OK to be racist; it’s patriotic and even an act of belonging and self-esteem
https://www.salon.com/2016/03/25/12_step_grou...d_rallies/
By RICHARD BROUILLETTE
PUBLISHED MARCH 25, 2016 9:58AM (EDT)
Group therapy is very powerful when it comes to helping people accept shame as part of a growth process. This is why mutual aid groups like Alcoholics Anonymous offer such an intense experience.
A group is telling you they have the same ugly feelings you have, and that you are still accepted and supported. In 12-step groups, as I see them, the individual accepts a “higher power” into her life, a kind of better self who will help with recovery and healing.
The 12-step group helps the individual connect with kindness, understanding and tolerance. A member of a 12-step group carries the goodness of that group dynamic in her mind and heart even when she isn’t sitting in a meeting. Out in her life she uses the 12 steps and the Big Book as a moral standard to repair herself and her relationships and help others.
Trump rallies, however, are the exact opposite of a 12-step group. Trump rallies use shame as fuel. The rally becomes an experience of Trump himself as the higher power modeling and reinforcing feelings, acts and speech that one would, under other circumstances, find shameful.
Here’s the awful truth: expressing shameful, taboo feelings in the presence of others is an intensely gratifying experience. I think this is why Trump has begun referring to the “love” that is shared in his rallies. But what Trump calls “love” is really a kind of group mania built on hatred of the other and a bond with the leader. The psychological state induced in Trump’s rallies foments animalistic and murderous hatred because when people step into the rally, they give up their personal moral sense to him.
Unlike a 12-step group, Trump provides no guidelines for moral actions — no 12 steps, only a bond with him, his whim, his ridicule of others, his narcissism. Followers leave activated with resentment and a kind of righteous hate without the brakes of shame on it.
Since Trump followers are bonded to him through pre-rational identification, they use words in whatever way they can to maintain that shameless bond and reject the other—which is why there’s no arguing with them.
Speech becomes a nonsense mosaic of feelings and impressions of good and bad. So when a Trump follower says, “I’m voting for Trump because he’s going to build a big wall…we need to be protected and it’s not racist to say that — just not politically correct,” it makes perfect sense to him because he’s using Trump’s primary process.
By embracing nonsensical contradiction and a belief that Trump is correct no matter what, the individual follower is demonstrating a basic psychoanalytic principle: he says one thing and does something entirely different. We can only hope that one day he will end up feeling ashamed for it.
Meanwhile, written in '16 and man did it play out over 4 years and down to this day, this evening.
Even money that howler monkeys MTG and Lauren Sloebert embarrass the shit out of a few decent Republicans....if there are such present.... and all of the Dems.
12-step groups of hate: A psychotherapist’s take on Donald Trump's wild rallies
In Trump’s presence, it’s not only OK to be racist; it’s patriotic and even an act of belonging and self-esteem
https://www.salon.com/2016/03/25/12_step_grou...d_rallies/
By RICHARD BROUILLETTE
PUBLISHED MARCH 25, 2016 9:58AM (EDT)
Group therapy is very powerful when it comes to helping people accept shame as part of a growth process. This is why mutual aid groups like Alcoholics Anonymous offer such an intense experience.
A group is telling you they have the same ugly feelings you have, and that you are still accepted and supported. In 12-step groups, as I see them, the individual accepts a “higher power” into her life, a kind of better self who will help with recovery and healing.
The 12-step group helps the individual connect with kindness, understanding and tolerance. A member of a 12-step group carries the goodness of that group dynamic in her mind and heart even when she isn’t sitting in a meeting. Out in her life she uses the 12 steps and the Big Book as a moral standard to repair herself and her relationships and help others.
Trump rallies, however, are the exact opposite of a 12-step group. Trump rallies use shame as fuel. The rally becomes an experience of Trump himself as the higher power modeling and reinforcing feelings, acts and speech that one would, under other circumstances, find shameful.
Here’s the awful truth: expressing shameful, taboo feelings in the presence of others is an intensely gratifying experience. I think this is why Trump has begun referring to the “love” that is shared in his rallies. But what Trump calls “love” is really a kind of group mania built on hatred of the other and a bond with the leader. The psychological state induced in Trump’s rallies foments animalistic and murderous hatred because when people step into the rally, they give up their personal moral sense to him.
Unlike a 12-step group, Trump provides no guidelines for moral actions — no 12 steps, only a bond with him, his whim, his ridicule of others, his narcissism. Followers leave activated with resentment and a kind of righteous hate without the brakes of shame on it.
Since Trump followers are bonded to him through pre-rational identification, they use words in whatever way they can to maintain that shameless bond and reject the other—which is why there’s no arguing with them.
Speech becomes a nonsense mosaic of feelings and impressions of good and bad. So when a Trump follower says, “I’m voting for Trump because he’s going to build a big wall…we need to be protected and it’s not racist to say that — just not politically correct,” it makes perfect sense to him because he’s using Trump’s primary process.
By embracing nonsensical contradiction and a belief that Trump is correct no matter what, the individual follower is demonstrating a basic psychoanalytic principle: he says one thing and does something entirely different. We can only hope that one day he will end up feeling ashamed for it.
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