Many on the left don't have this. It's very, very hard to have empathy for someone who doesn't have it toward you, your ideals, and especially when they have overt hostility toward them. A friend of mine is going through such a rough time, and has so much disrespect for himself that he actively tries to get people to hate him and ignores the fact that his other friends and I are on to his game with no winners. He can't face facts. Which started me thinking of the man at the top.
The game he plays is from both sides. The part of his mind that disrespects himself feeds on the vitriol of the left. He must raise it, make it bigger. Hurt himself with them. It confirms his ideas about himself and the left.
On the right he can feed the other side of his ego with agreement. A war of wanting to be hated and liked.
In my life I have been on the losing side of arguments. I know what it's like. In a gun thread here once I quoted Wayne LaPierre, or so I thought. It turned out that I had quoted a "satire site" that had a little, tiny word at the top I didn't notice, "Satire" - sowing the seeds of division (it wouldn't surprise me now if that was a Russian site). I even put the quote in my signature here. Boy did I have egg on my face! But those guys taught me to check my sources. I learned a valuable lesson.
Despite his wealth and fame, I see a lost child desperately grasping at "reality," which keeps slipping through his fingers. He's actually a lot of things. I'm not sure that anyone on the right thinks of him as an intellectual though because that word is of the left, I put people like Carl Sagan, Neil Degrasse Tyson, or Einstein in that category, not Trump, but I can see his games because I or others I know have played them and lost.
The game he plays is from both sides. The part of his mind that disrespects himself feeds on the vitriol of the left. He must raise it, make it bigger. Hurt himself with them. It confirms his ideas about himself and the left.
On the right he can feed the other side of his ego with agreement. A war of wanting to be hated and liked.
In my life I have been on the losing side of arguments. I know what it's like. In a gun thread here once I quoted Wayne LaPierre, or so I thought. It turned out that I had quoted a "satire site" that had a little, tiny word at the top I didn't notice, "Satire" - sowing the seeds of division (it wouldn't surprise me now if that was a Russian site). I even put the quote in my signature here. Boy did I have egg on my face! But those guys taught me to check my sources. I learned a valuable lesson.
Despite his wealth and fame, I see a lost child desperately grasping at "reality," which keeps slipping through his fingers. He's actually a lot of things. I'm not sure that anyone on the right thinks of him as an intellectual though because that word is of the left, I put people like Carl Sagan, Neil Degrasse Tyson, or Einstein in that category, not Trump, but I can see his games because I or others I know have played them and lost.
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