OMG if Trump did one thing while in his reign which is to set the dogs of justices system on the clinton's and put their azz in jail where they belong Trump will be extremely worth the vote!

"how is it possible that his supporters seem unwilling to carefully assess the credibility of his declarations, prevarications and deflections."

Because they don't take him literally -- as does the press.

People are inspired by, motivated by, and supportive of Trump's core beliefs -- enforce our immigration laws, rebuild the military and fix the VA, cut taxes for everyone, get rid of Obamacare, reneotiate our trade agreements, end political correctness, and enforce law and order.

Now ... let's talk about why people are unwilling to assess the character, hypocrisy, and criminal behavior of Hillary. THAT, I don't understand.

At this time it is well-known that people are angry with public officials, mistrust politicians and have come to view the government as broken. As such, Trump's bravado, self-promotion, sarcasm and irreverence strikes some as amusing if not endearing. He speaks to a level of frustration, even despair, that some people are experiencing in this country. He regales his followers with promises that lift their spirits and provide hope for the future.

In essence, Trump makes some people feel good about themselves and in turn optimistic about the future of this country. This is a powerful elixir that stirs the emotions and leaves his supporters feeling high.

This is all superficial. There is something else more powerful. Things MIGHT get better, or not. But one thing is certain: Trump's victory is going to make a lot of people very UNHAPPY - the people who got very rich and powerful and left everybody else behind.

If Trump can build something new, that's great. But even if he can't build a thing, if he can wreck the structures that made SOME rich and pull them back down into the pot to boil with everybody else that is good in and of itself.

It may be that the Titanic is going to sink, but if it does, then unlike in the original event, the rich men don't get the lifeboats this time. They get to drown and freeze like all of the other men. Ideally, women and children get the lifeboats, but if the Kochs and Goldmans won't let that happen either, then it is better for EVERYBODY to freeze and drown, then for a select few rich guys who ruined it escape.

The revenge motive is very important.

Dr. N.G. Berrill is the executive director at the New York Center for Neuropsychology & Forensic Behavioral Science

Dr. Berrill dances around the issue with verbal slurrs, but fails to make any serious examinations in depth. It's an amateur hit piece based primarily on the impressiveness of his self conferred title of executive director at the New York Center for Neuropsychology & Forensic Behavioral Science.

I'm a hell of a lot more concerned with the consistently destructive manipulations of Hillary Lucretzia Borgia Clinton than with the attempted selling of exaggerated deficiencies of Trump.

In what I hope will become my forthcoming book I make the following comparison between Hillary and Lucretzia Borgia:

"George W. Bush, Obama, and Hillary have done more to advance jihadist aggression than any other figure in history with the exception of Mohammed --using our government and military. Obama and Hillary have engineered a way to use our military in such a way as to strengthen our enemies and create our long term defeat while appealing to our patriotism. I’m tempted to draw a parallel between Hillary and Lucrezia Borgia. Lucrezia was known as a famous poisoner. She wore a hollow ring on her finger that contained poison. At banquets to which adversaries were also invited, she’d smilingly serve them plates of food to which she added poison from the ring. For 50 years Hillary has been using every opportunity to feed this country poison in anything she touches. The poison that she feeds it comes over countercultural politics and TV rather than on a dinner plate. It is just as debilitating but hidden under a veneer of feminine vivaciousness, a modicum of perky attractive physical fashion, flashes of sarcastic humor, dramatic monologue speeches that are unattached to, or contrary to, relevant reality, spunk, and active expression of energetic personality. It plays well. She’s a great actress. People are entranced and carried away by the portrayal of charisma. Next to Hillary, Lucrezia Borgia was an amateur. "

Despite the fact that Trump is on record making statements that are hateful, hurtful, devoid of serious thought, self-aggrandizing and preposterous, there are many who continue to drink the Kool-Aid ---- called Cognitive Dissonance. Basically the idea goes that once people make up their minds about something, they become emotionally wedded to a person, idea or plan of action. Despite being confronted with evidence that contradicts a given thought or commitment, people tend to ignore the data at hand rather than modify or change their position.

False premise. -- even though, --- "Trump is on record making statements that are hateful, hurtful, devoid of serious thought, self-aggrandizing and preposterous," -- such statements have ENOUGH elements of truth within them to be explainable upon reflection.

Thus, no 'cognitive dissonance' is needed by his supporters, as they have enough intelligence to understand Trumps points.

Naturally, Trumps political opponents pretend they do not, and cast his statements in the worst possible reference.

Only idiots are fooled, -- leaving the democrats with a good chance of winning.

Only idiots are fooled, -- leaving the democrats with a good chance of winning.

Half the people in the U. S. are idiots, with more coming in due to incompatible immigration and hurried naturalization. Professional politicians in both parties know it and welcome it.

Half the people in the U. S. are idiots, with more coming in due to incompatible immigration and hurried naturalization. Professional politicians in both parties know it and welcome it.

Yep, that's why Trump, a non-pro, could make it...

" Half the people in the U. S. are idiots, with more coming in due to incompatible immigration and hurried naturalization. Professional politicians in both parties know it and welcome it. "

Exactly right Robert. Unfortunately, we are powerless to do anything about it.

Now ... let's talk about why people are unwilling to assess the character, hypocrisy, and criminal behavior of Hillary. THAT, I don't understand.

Wrongo. 70% of We The People are fully aware that she is an immoral untrustworthy liar. Her supporters just don't GAS. That speaks more about them than of her.

But one thing is certain: Trump's victory is going to make a lot of people very UNHAPPY - the people who got very rich and powerful and left everybody else behind.

You mean like he has?

Now ... let's talk about why people are unwilling to assess the character, hypocrisy, and criminal behavior of Hillary. THAT, I don't understand.

Its not the People; its not the MSM. It is the US Government. Not much more to talk about is there?

I was never impressed by the arguments that said that those rich guys who called, for example, for taxes on the rich were hypocrites for not just giving away their wealth. That's not the way it works. Buffett doesn't want to become relatively poor compared to the other rich. He wants all of them to bear the strain of what it takes to properly fund a country.

He is not willing to unilaterally give everything away while living. He's not interested in a grand act of charity. Nor is he willing to give up on making money, lots of it. He is willing to give up a substantial portion, provided that everybody else in his bracket, all of the competition, ALSO has to.

Trump got rich playing the system. He understands the system and knows it's rigged. He wants to make it harder for everybody, himself included, to do that. He's not willing to unilaterally disarm, and he's not willing to just let Hillary's connections make a fortune. He recognizes that the system isn't fair, and he wants to make it fairer. He will take a haircut to do it - along with all of his peers. They hate that, but the American people love him for being willing to do it.

THere's nothing wrong with getting rich. There's also nothing wrong, if you're rich, from wanting to fix the "cheat codes" in the system by which you got rich. It's just rare. Trump is a rare sort of guy.

"Wrongo. 70% of We The People are fully aware that she is an immoral untrustworthy liar. Her supporters just don't GAS. That speaks more about them than of her."

That certainly explains how someone like Hitler could rise to power.

"Trump is a rare sort of guy."

True. Which is why we're screwed if he doesn't win. Hillary will totally f**k up our country for years, especially with Supreme Court appointments. The people will (finally) demand change. Then what?

Will there be another Trump? More importantly, will the GOP let him run?

In psychology, there is a construct called Cognitive Dissonance. Basically the idea goes that once people make up their minds about something, they become emotionally wedded to a person, idea or plan of action. Despite being confronted with evidence that contradicts a given thought or commitment, people tend to ignore the data at hand rather than modify or change their position.

Very nice pseudo-intellectual commentary concerning Trump by a politically biased POS. Note: not one word about Hillary whom should be imprisoned.

I read your comment in italics above. Yes interesting. Wonder what this 'Dr.' has to say (and the Daily News)about people wanting to vote for a known pathological liar.

The People are fully aware that she is an immoral untrustworthy liar. Her supporters just don't GAS. That speaks more about them than of her.

Yep.

Will there be another Trump? More importantly, will the GOP let him run?

If Hillary wins, the GOP is finished. We're headed for one-party rule in everything but name. And it will last a long, long time.

Even if the GOP keeps the Senate, they can't stop Hillary from filling the Supreme Court by recess appointments. Those recess appointments can then form a majority that strips away all of the anti-fraud protections in the law, and strips away efforts to prevent illegals from voting.

Then, in the mid-terms, the Republicans lose the Senate to the "new voters", and Hillary's appointees become permanent.

The march of Executive Orders, to bypass Congress, continues, and the recess-appointed Supreme Court backs the President over the recalcitrant Congress.

Gun control becomes national, and the Supreme Court upholds it.

Obamacare is administratively converted into single-payer through federal receivership, and the Supreme Court upholds it.

All of the checks and balances in the system are stripped away when there is a Supreme Court that will not uphold them. The power base of the Republican Party will be very rapidly stripped of its money and its secrecy, and that will be that: one party rule.

Right now, I see tons of rich Republicans lining up to shoot Trump in the back, because they love the idea that they, and they alone, set the course of the party.

There will still be plenty of profit under Hillary, but it will be the Democrat-owned donor companies that garner most of it from it. The Republican-donor companies will be investigated, prosecuted, cut off from contracts and hounded out of the market.

There will be no "free market" for Republican-donor companies once Hillary is fully ensconced in power. She will use government power to clear open market share for her Democrat corporate allies.

My view is pretty straightforward, and I've stated it many times.

Wonder what this 'Dr.' has to say (and the Daily News)about people wanting to vote for a known pathological liar.

The Hillary voters I know don't want to vote for Hillary. They have pretty much the same view I did voting for Romney: dislike and disdain, but a stronger desire not to see the other side win.

That certainly explains how someone like Hitler could rise to power.

Sadly it is so true, a demonstrated trait of human nature.

How can you still possibly believe that he is anything other than a shill for Hillary.

Because I listen to him.

How can you still possibly believe that he is anything other than a shill for Hillary.

Because I listen to him.

So does everyone else. That is why he is now 10% behind her in the polls.

The calamities unfolding between now and the election will change the balance.

Yep, Trump continues to fall further behind an immoral lying POS. He is truing out to be bigger disgrace of a shill for Hillary than I thought.

He is truing out to be bigger disgrace of a shill for Hillary than I thought.

Being Cassandra isn't much fun, is it?