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[–]FormosaOolong 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Chronic liars lie first to themselves, to protect their ego construct. (Which is fragile, despite the appearance of massive arrogance and pomp.) So any time a shred of truth disrupts their storyline, they first re-weave the foundational fabric of their lie to themselves, within the context of their own weird internal lie. When it sounds good, and credible, and supportive of their bloated sense of self, they start repeating that lie to others, to substantiate it. It's like PR for their ego, and the more people that believe it, the more they believe it. In this way they start to forget things, like, say, oh yeah they're the effing president of the US and most everything they say and do is on public record.

But the years of getting away with re-writing their personal history makes them delusional in the way I think Nema might be trying to point to here--in that they have some unconscious magical thinking wherein if they repeat the lie enough, everyone will believe it, and it will become the new truth, and they will maintain their glory.

Trump is just a very unsophisticated example of this specific narcissistic trait. Most of the people in high places are getting away with this exact process on a much more successful and less transparent level. It's my hope that we're in a phase of our collective evolution where they are all being exposed, and the whole rotten fabric will disintegrate before our very eyes, and we can make a nice new cloth that is not itchy, moth-eaten, and malodorous.