I had a tournament chess playing buddy, much better than me, who, after or during cocaine addiction, became a paranoid schizophrenic. I'd be at his place, playing chess with the TV on, and he'd say during a commercial, 'Did you hear that?'. I'd say yeah, it was a sales pitch. He insisted the guy on TV was talking to him. I said, yeah, he's talking to everyone listening. He insisted the guy was talking directly to him alone.
As the months went by, it became worse and worse. I tried to use logic on him, but I became just part of the conspiracy against him. Finally, his parents came and had him committed when he could no longer function, or even leave the house.
When I think of TrumPutinists, it's like they have caught some sort of communicable mental illness that displays like his. |
