It is a harsh realization when you wake up and find out that literally everything that you have been told as being most important was a lie.
Therefore the brain protects against that injurious state, by disconnecting from that reality, while holding onto the “love” that the cult members offer - acceptance, affirmation, etc.
This is adaption at work, arguably a good thing, i.e. a mechanism to protect someone as they are being abused.
Society has failed them, even as they feed that forward and now fail society.
We cannot change the past, only try to do as best we can to move into the future.
For anyone else wanting a link. Here’s the YouTube address in usable form.
IMO, the video is fine. The presenter’s constant interjections get pretty tiring, but yes. Orange man makes a right fool of himself. As always.
This is disingenuous from the start. I saw the speech and it was very clearly an intentional joke when he said he didn’t care about them.
Maybe I’m clutching my pearls here, but I don’t want my president to “joke” about my life. Also this “joke” is in pretty poor spirit if 20+ people needed medical attention and he’s not going to help them at all
It’s a joke because he absolutely does not care about them.
As a profligate conman, he has several ways to make them think that he does. All of them work on his cult.
Oh, I know he doesn’t. But he meant for them to take it as a joke.
That viewpoint is called codependency.
If there is a person in your life and every other single person you meet says that there’s a problem with that person and your gut reaction is to explain away those problems or to excuse that person from responsibility for the problems that are alleged against them, you are currently running interference for a person who has unaddressed problems.
That is codependent enabling behavior, and is a sign that you yourself may have some issues that need to be addressed.
Acknowledging reality is not codependence.
Just because I think the guy is absolutely horrible doesn’t mean that I’m going to pretend he wasn’t joking when he clearly was. Yes, he also doesn’t actually care about them, but that doesn’t change the fact that he was joking.
