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Each day closer to the election is frightening

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TRUMPISM CULTISM NAZISM. WHITE SUPREMACY. THE MAGA. THE. REPUBLICANS. AND THERE COWARDICE. THERE GREED AND THE CORPORATE. OLIGHARCY. THE GENOCIDE. YES GENOCIDE. MILITARY. And never ending. War. 🫵🫵🫵🫵💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

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Trumpism is a public health emergency of delusion. In all cults, you only strengthen the sense of persecution when you attack the leader, the ideology or the group.

What works is separating the members from the leader’s influence and supporting them to re-integrate back into society and make a difference, make a living and build their relationships and families.

Dr Bandy Lee is a forensic psychiatrist who studies the epidemics of violence. The World Mental Health Coalition produced this one hour proceedings of their conference “The more dangerous state of the world and the need for

Fit leadership” (the much more dangerous case of DonaldTrump”.

speakers include leaders in psychiatry, national security, and former members of congress.

https://youtu.be/2AhXXeCcZss?si=IMvhPpZP-3ZPCbUy - Video of the Conference

http://bandylee.com/newbook.pdf - Dr. Lee's new book that was released at the conference - http://bandylee.com

https://bandyxlee.substack.com - Dr. Lee's frequent substack publication you can subscribe to and be invited to her weekly online meetings

http://gofundme.com/f/dangerouscase - The new October GoFundMe to make it possible to widely publicize the Conference

You can email Dr. Lee and WMHC - BandyLee@BandyLee.com

World Mental Health sent you a thank you for supporting Donate to Expose the Dangers of a Second Trump Presidency

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Start with stopping name calling on anyone or group. The only thing this accomplishes is venting anger and frustration and does not increase your personal power and influence

Use nouns and verbs.

DO Explain, DON’T complain.

The only two worthy questions are:

“What is real?” and “What is next?”

I no longer use the labels Republican or Democrat, Blue State, Red State, or Purple State

( except to vote the entire democratic ticket).

I say:

My neighbor

My patient

My colleague

My nephew

The “candidate for xxxx office”

The “person/s thinking of voting for Donald Trump”.

I am in recovery from my “outrage addiction” and am developing my skills as a grounded, clear thinking, peaceful, woman, doctor, grandmother, neighbor,

Every step of the way I work to respond to situations in a way that continuously creates the person I want to spent the rest of my life with.

I choose “sacred reciprocity” in my relationships and give all others gentle and firm distance.

I practice my responses to fearful and anxious or manipulative statements.

“Tell me why you are saying that”

“I am giving up my outrage fix and am practicing learning about what others care about. Do you mind if I ask you a question?”

“I am imagining our grandchildren talking 20 years from now. Wonder what they will say we did to make their lives together better?”

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I thoroughly agree with you…we ARE at war with ourselves and Donnie is the spark that caused it.

The fact that he’s holding a “rally” at MSG, just like the NAZI Party did, back in the 30’s, puts the icing on the cake.

How, dammit, is he permitted to continue in this vein of Nazism? Isn’t it the DOJ’s responsibility to end this nonsense BEFORE the election? Last week he violated the Logan Act, by speaking with Putin! Makes you wonder why the entire GOP is on the side of Russia, huh?

How much more can our nation tolerate? When will he get his just dues? We are a country that used to be the shining example of democracy…

Donnie had broken that to pieces, without a bit of guilt! I doubt he has the guilt gene or empathy, for that matter! When other countries must be warned about our extreme gun violence, before visiting, that says volumes.

Donnie CANNOT sit in the Oval Office again! Our country will literally fall apart!

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Banning books and resticting teaching dark history, such as slavery is an attact on youth and their individuality and reasoning ability.

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Well said. We cannot "hope and pray" our way to overcome the minority fascist - far - right's attempt to end democracy and rule the majority.

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We need to listen to all sides

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Not when the other side is patently irrational, and intentionally fascist. Reason will not work with these people--we've tried that. Up is Down. Black is White, Wrong is Right... how do you have a conversation with that kind of Orwellian standpoint?

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Many folks weren't smacked awake by the war-sized confederate flag being paraded through the US Capitol, after a violent terroristic insurrection, to realize the "civil war" has been going on for some time, since 2016, funded by a billionaire corruption cult, a criminal conspiracy to destruct the US constitutional demcocracy by division, psychological war & outright terror & violence. The default normalization & concession of the establishment has led us to a theatre of insanity, derangement & global warfare. All to benefit of a handful of corrupt individuals & families & their criminal syndicates.

“Trump Contagion” is not an American cult, it is a global criminal conspiracy to destabilize, destroy & overthrow the US Democratic Republic:

https://beezevans.substack.com/p/last-ditch-effort-to-rescue-americans

Hope, Intelligence, Justice, Alliance, Faith, Compassion, History Rising to Defend the Future & End the Corruption of Trump-cult Threats to Democracy 💜 🌊 purple tsunami, register everyone!

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I do not want to live in a dictatorship. This is not the country I grew up in any more. The idiots are taking over and bending to the will of a manipulative man-child. He lies constantly and his

'followers' don't care...Why not? Even seasoned Republicans are kissing his butt. Why? I don't get it. All for power and money and the hell with the rest of us 'little' people. How sad. Please people wake up before election day or kiss our democracy goodbye. Vance is even worse a smarter verion of DJT and one willing to take everything we have away.

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While the West Point statement is predictive, it is not a definition.

What IS true is the article assertion that all factors create the conditions for war, and that all trumpist republicans and allied theocrats ARE acting corruptly, aggressively, and psthologically.

I just came from observing both the immensity of obvious russian troll efforts, the manipulated theocratic, and the also-manipulated seekers of fascism, and dictatorship opportunity. It is transparent, containing enormous componentry of lies, even as it continues to use the inaccurate, tired tropes ("libs" and other meaningless terms. No individual fully agrees on either the delusionary or actual policy variables.) that never did define any party or position.

(For example, a classical liberal was a laissez faire insufficiently regulatory free market proponent. Liberal itself means generous. It can also mean open to change. Just a handy trope, a propagandistic word. Conservative, originally meant monarchist. Psychologically it means resistant to change, or in definition means careful in judgment. It, too is so broad as to be meaningless. Progressive was an ideal and a political proponent believing that gradual change (a dictionary definition) or peaceful social development toward equality of opportunity or other social change. You understand that none of such terms can describe any individual, or even position or movement; democracy is not something one progresses toward, but a characteristic of a community that IS equal individually, however its individuals vary in skills, pleasures, type of contribution. It either exists, at a particular scale, or does not at that quantitative scale of group)

That unpopular laws rule and prevent a woman, or any other, from full equal status is a result of democracy NOT existing in that group or region.

Social fragmentation , hate, discord, are not the dame as the comp!ete oppositional group butchery and arrogation that is war. Ask a Ukrainian with everything devastated by war.

i happen to have witnessed the useless, needless death of individuals and families, of habitats, entire ecosystems, which latter mean biologically comp!ete communities functioning in steady relatively undisrupted manner.

We do see violent attempt at subjugation, the violence not as widely lethal as war, but cruel as humans can be without direct war.

We are variably made prisoner, while still accepting a community and society with virulent individuals and groups, with open parasites like Trump - examine parasitic organisms and examine trump to understand this.

Rather like individual organisms infected by cordyceps fungi, a huge proportion of individuals in the US, ARE cognitively serving the parasite's ( and certainly the plural, parasites') purposes, quite unwittingly, believing that the parasite has anything other than consumption of themselves after manipulating their behaviors and cognitions.

This is the far closer analogy.

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Forgive the numerous typos and punctuation errors. Editing on a small mobile device is not functional, and the site needs capacity to edit comments once the tiny-windowed comment is posted.

Hopefully it is interprable as is.

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I’ve recently engaged in dialog with a trumper in Georgia who believes all the garbage the lying narcissist spits out. No matter what truths are presented, he denies it all…about the Haitians, about FEMA, about Covid in 2020, about abortion, about 45 knowing anything about project 2025. It’s unbelievable and so tragic that he represents millions in this country who will be voting for the fascist. It is disturbing as hell.

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It’s pitiful how misinformed and uneducated half our country is to not recognize the dangers 45 presents to the country and to them personally. If he wins, it will be too late for them…but I’m not counting on him winning.

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Every word of this column is true, republicans have taken control of our country. Vote like you lives depend on it because it is almost too late to save our great nation from these corrupt assholes.

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I am 86 years old and have no money. I am being partially supported by my church. Therefore, I am unable to contribute to you, Bur I follow you and support your efforts. Thank you so much for being a possitive part of my world. Burt Binner

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I hope you are registered and have a plan how you will vote. Your Vote is invaluable! Let's continue to lift each other up. So glad you have needed support. Prayers 🙏 for our country. God bless you.

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"We are now at WAR in the United States"!! Thank you for putting this sad reality in writing -

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.Most are either low information voters, or led around by the nose by unscrupulous pastors

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