One and Only Observer

Trump Derangement Syndrome

Brainwashing.

Words don’t matter. Not one bit.

Here’s an experiment for any Trump follower. Find a Trump video and watch it with the sound turned off. Without the mesmerizer’s voice, you’ll feel an overwhelming compulsion to turn the sound back on because there’s something really wrong with the muted experience.

To understand Trump Derangement Syndrome, go online, Google Trump, and listen to several minutes of him talking at a rally or giving a speech. After a while you’ll shake your head, blink several times, and reach for the mute button, wondering what happened. The man speaks a steady stream of nonsense, while all the while intending to get into the woman’s pants next to him. Keep her attention, keep talking. Keep their attention….

When Trump’s subjects are pliable and unresisting, he can do whatever he wants. He gets, and keeps, the attention of his followers by flashing shiny red meat objects to them, saying “crooked” this person, “build the wall,” and “mass deportations.” Then he drones on and on, using a cult leader’s repetitive droning….

Trump drones on and on to keep the listener’s attention on him. He’s a manipulator. He’s a middle schooler who shows classmates porno images. He knows what grabs attention. Naughty. Nasty. Outrageous. He could care less about the truth; he lies constantly because he’s improvising, feeling his way, and working to get his listeners’ attention. Whether you love him or hate him doesn’t matter. Simply focus your attention on the outrage he’s dangling, while he drones on and on….

The things that Trump says are purposely ridiculous, extreme, and outrageous because they have to be. His power over his listeners is saying something outrageous because that’s quite simply what grabs a listener’s attention. Rally crowds let him know when he has them. He says something outrageous, or he swears—and once he gets their reaction his droning, droning, droning can continue. His red-hat-wearing listeners nod, eyes glazed and jaws slack. A tried-and-true hypnotist’s technique is to wear down listeners before giving them suggestions.

Ironically, Trump followers seem to think it’s clever to label non-Trumpers as being afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome. With Trump’s followers—who mirror his behavior—the most honest things ever uttered are projections. “I’m not deluded, you are.”

Trump’s droning, droning, and droning is to lull you into allowing him to do what he wants to you. Although they cluck like chickens and play broomsticks like guitars on stage, the brainwashed should never be mocked. Blame the hypnotist.

And shout, “No!”