There are a number of reasons for my saying this, including his declaration that fear of Muslims is RATIONAL (all caps in his original statement).
Beyond this bit of nuttiness and bigotry is the fact that he posted the following tweet with reference to a fake news story about Hillary Clinton’s supposed involvement in a child sex slave operation:
U decide – NYPD Blows Whistle on New Hillary Emails: Money Laundering, Sex Crimes w Children, etc…MUST READ! (with a link to a fake news story here)
I give Flynn no credit for finally deleting this tweet
which he first posted a few days before the November 8 election. His having believed
this wacky anti-Hillary story in the first place is damning evidence that proves
he is unqualified to be National Security Adviser.
This fake news about Hillary’s supposed criminal, child-victimizing behavior is so outrageous and clearly false that you wonder how a sane person could believe it at all. I suppose someone who has been brainwashed into thinking Hillary is evil to the core (as many conservatives have been) and who has no skill at separating reliable sources from fake ones could believe it. Otherwise you would have to be just plain stupid.
So which one is Michael Flynn – incompetent or just plain stupid? In either case, he is clearly unworthy to be America’s National Security Adviser and Donald Trump is a fool or a scoundrel for appointing him.
Of course, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. In light of this ideal, I want to caution those on the anti-Trump side (the ones I like to think of as “the good guys”) against overstating the case against the president-elect. It is unwise to damn one’s political opponents with labels that the evidence does not justify. For example, is it really fair to call Mr. Trump a psychopath?
If you just yelled out “Hell yes!” or words to that effect, I beg you to hold on for just a minute. It is wrong to condemn someone as deeply psychologically flawed without a careful consideration of what psychologists say are the defining features of the psychopath. If we look at these defining features, I am confident that we will find that Trump is not actually a bona fide psychopath. For example, below is a list of characteristics defining a psychopath according to psychologist Robert Hare as cited in Jon Ronson’s The Psychopath Test. Surely a comparison of Mr. Trump’s personality with these traits will be enough to convince any discerning reader that he is not really a psychopath.
1. Glibness/superficial
charm
2. Grandiose
sense of self-worth
3. Need
for stimulation/proneness to boredom
4. Pathological
lying
5. Conning/manipulative
6. Lack
of remorse or guilt
7. Shallow
affect
8. Callous/lack
of empathy
9. Parasitic
lifestyle
10. Poor
behavioral controls
11. Promiscuous
sexual behavior
12. Early
behavioral problems
13. Lack
of realistic long-term goals
14. Impulsivity
15. Irresponsibility
16. Failure
to accept responsibility for own actions
17. Many
short-term marital relationships
18. Juvenile
delinquency
19. Revocation
of conditional release
20. Criminal
versatility
Never mind.
