DISSECTING TRUMP’S COMMENT THAT HERD IMMUNITY IS GOOD BECAUSE IT IS LIKE A “HERD MENTALITY.”
(Trump’s comments evince either sheer stupidity or a thought disorder that smacks of schizophrenia)
DISSECTING TRUMP’S COMMENT THAT HERD IMMUNITY IS GOOD BECAUSE IT IS LIKE A “HERD MENTALITY.”
(Trump’s comments evince either sheer stupidity or a thought disorder that smacks of schizophrenia)
By
David Gottfried
Before we construct broad or general ideas, it is best to dive down into the specific and concrete. In this brief essay, I will reveal the pathological thought disorders of Donald Trump by dissecting a specific and supremely strange utterance of the presidential Mafia Don, Herr Donald Trump.
In trying to discuss the virtues of herd immunity, Trump said that it was like herd mentality. This comment shows that his most basic mental functions are shockingly disordered and evince either a severely stunted intellect or thought patterns characteristic of schizophrenia.
EVIDENCE OF A STUNTED INTELLECT: He seems to think that herd immunity will be a good and effective means of defending us against covid because it is like a herd mentality. Perhaps he does not know it, but herd immunity and herd mentality have about as much in common as strawberry shortcake and the planet Saturn. And, perhaps his baby brain does not know this, but we generally don’t like the idea of people having a herd mentality, unless of course we are Nazis and are infatuated with a society shorn of all individuality slavishly bowing to a Sadistic fuhrer.
Perhaps, like an eight year old who wants to show how smart he is, he referred to herd mentality, in a pathetic attempt to discuss herd immunity, to establish that he is such a big boy that he can think of two compound words which begin with the word herd.
EVIDENCE OF SCHIZOPHRENIA: If his comment was not a by product of stupidity, he betrayed a cognitive flaw that is fundamental to schizophrenia. People with Schizophrenia, according to Silvano Arieti, believe that A is like B because they both have something in common or that A and B go together or are linked because they share a single attribute. This logic is fallacious. For example, it is illogical to assert that since a nurse wears something on her head, and a Queen has a tierra on her head, that all registered nurses are queens. In the case of Trump, herd immunity and herd mentality are inextricably wedded to one another because they start with the word herd or the letter H. This flaw is very prominent in schizophrenia and is the ideational predicate of delusional thought. (Actually, Arieti said that this sort of logic, which he also called paleologic, or old logic, is the basis for the poetic metaphor, is pervasive among children, primitive peoples and ancient customs, such as the believe that red meat must be accompanied by red wine since they share the same color)
EVIDENCE THAT A HUGE PROPORTION OF THE AMERICAN ELECTORATE SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED NEAR VOTING MACHINES, MATCHES, OR AUTOMOBILES: The great mass of American boobs who supported Trump cannot think like adults and should be divested of adult responsibilities. However, I’d let them keep their guns. Give them time, and like Trump, who has back-stabbed his most ardent supporters, they will form a circular firing squad and we will be free of the lot of them.