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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Smart_Asset who wrote (76851)	6/11/2018 10:53:29 PM
From: robert a belfer	Respond to of 358989

Trump's a very physical person. His body postures during the second presidential debate would be good examples. Many of the 'primitive' body postures involve intimidation. Here's a link to a Mark Bowden TED talk about body language. He does presuppose a belief in evolution and you may see some Trump body postures in his talk. youtube.com This TED talk on sociopathy/psycopathy by Jon Ronson is interesting as well. I attended a lecture of his at a local Town Hall meeting. Lots of psychopathic behaviors are useful in the political arena. youtube.com I'd be interested in your take on them. My take away from Bowden is that all body language is primitive in that it comes from our primitive brain stem. When everything is psychopathic nothing is psychopathic. Just like racism. I went to high school with a sociopath. He was elected to congress. Might have something to do with my very low opinion of most politicians but I do not want to psychoanalyze myself. My conscious mind tells me most politicians are corrupt because it is human nature that power corrupts.