MaryPat, you cannot educate delusions once they take hold. I work in mental health and I feel quite certain of this. I was sure someone would compare sex and race to mental health status and here you are so thank you for that. Racism and sexism are not remotely the same as pointing out someone is not mentally competent to vote rationally…
MaryPat, you cannot educate delusions once they take hold. I work in mental health and I feel quite certain of this. I was sure someone would compare sex and race to mental health status and here you are so thank you for that. Racism and sexism are not remotely the same as pointing out someone is not mentally competent to vote rationally. Let me restate that as gender or race labels should be irrelevant to determining voter eligibility. Mental health status should not. A malignant narcissist, for instance, should not be allowed to run for office, hold office, or vote for someone else to hold office.
The courts already have a process to declare individuals incompetent, and this removes their right to vote in elections at all levels. I am suggesting that we should re-examine this mechanism and enhance it. Do you want the people who traveled to Dallas to welcome a dead man back to life to vote? I do not. I think they are mentally ill. I want them to be legally barred from voting until they receive appropriate services and can pass a screening process that ensures they are capable of critical thinking and rational decision making.
I pay for every publication I read regularly, but I cannot afford to pay for EVERY publication that needs support. There is an add-on for the problem of these paywalls. A way to bypass them. I don't feel the slightest bit of guilt about using it.
I’m on iPhone. When an article goes behind paywall, I go back and just hold link until menu pops up where I can access “download linked file”. A little arrow then will appear on the forum address and that will take me to a downloaded file where I can read article. Format is different but article is there with no paywall.
I think the file is "sneaky". There is a black/dark background, but if you look closely, you see a barely visible "close" x in the left side. I closed it and the story opened for me. Good luck!
I too work in mental health as a psych nurse and I still strongly disagree that the "average American voter shouldn't be voting in the first place." In my work I see paranoid schiz, schizo-affective, a variety of personality disorders, bipolar, alcohol and substance abuse, depression, and autism. I diagnosed tRump as malignant narcissist before his 1st national tweet. Plus, I have a neighbor who went postal 20 years ago (when he was working at a post office, with a gun. Thank goodness no one was hurt but he isn't allowed to bear arms (which he has many of, and is able to con local hunters to pick up ammunition for him). He is now feeling vindicated and validated by tRump, as a Proud Boy now who became violent even before he drove to the insurrection (I alerted the sherrif and state police). I agree he should not be voting - he is certifiable, but no one in our broken system will question his right to vote to keep Biden from killing babies. (Fortunately he thinks I am really nice). I think we professionals see so many with mental and emotional maladies, that our view of our population as a whole gets skewed. Enhance the courts ability to declare individuals incompetent, yes. I agree: Take away their right to vote. Just don't assume that every tRumper or redneck is delusional and crazy.
MaryPat, you cannot educate delusions once they take hold. I work in mental health and I feel quite certain of this. I was sure someone would compare sex and race to mental health status and here you are so thank you for that. Racism and sexism are not remotely the same as pointing out someone is not mentally competent to vote rationally. Let me restate that as gender or race labels should be irrelevant to determining voter eligibility. Mental health status should not. A malignant narcissist, for instance, should not be allowed to run for office, hold office, or vote for someone else to hold office.
The courts already have a process to declare individuals incompetent, and this removes their right to vote in elections at all levels. I am suggesting that we should re-examine this mechanism and enhance it. Do you want the people who traveled to Dallas to welcome a dead man back to life to vote? I do not. I think they are mentally ill. I want them to be legally barred from voting until they receive appropriate services and can pass a screening process that ensures they are capable of critical thinking and rational decision making.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2021/11/02/qanon-supporters-gather-in-downtown-dallas-expecting-jfk-jr-to-reappear/
The two seconds before it went behind the paywall was enough. We. Are. Screwed,
I pay for every publication I read regularly, but I cannot afford to pay for EVERY publication that needs support. There is an add-on for the problem of these paywalls. A way to bypass them. I don't feel the slightest bit of guilt about using it.
I’m on iPhone. When an article goes behind paywall, I go back and just hold link until menu pops up where I can access “download linked file”. A little arrow then will appear on the forum address and that will take me to a downloaded file where I can read article. Format is different but article is there with no paywall.
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I think the file is "sneaky". There is a black/dark background, but if you look closely, you see a barely visible "close" x in the left side. I closed it and the story opened for me. Good luck!
Seriously, that is crazy.
I too work in mental health as a psych nurse and I still strongly disagree that the "average American voter shouldn't be voting in the first place." In my work I see paranoid schiz, schizo-affective, a variety of personality disorders, bipolar, alcohol and substance abuse, depression, and autism. I diagnosed tRump as malignant narcissist before his 1st national tweet. Plus, I have a neighbor who went postal 20 years ago (when he was working at a post office, with a gun. Thank goodness no one was hurt but he isn't allowed to bear arms (which he has many of, and is able to con local hunters to pick up ammunition for him). He is now feeling vindicated and validated by tRump, as a Proud Boy now who became violent even before he drove to the insurrection (I alerted the sherrif and state police). I agree he should not be voting - he is certifiable, but no one in our broken system will question his right to vote to keep Biden from killing babies. (Fortunately he thinks I am really nice). I think we professionals see so many with mental and emotional maladies, that our view of our population as a whole gets skewed. Enhance the courts ability to declare individuals incompetent, yes. I agree: Take away their right to vote. Just don't assume that every tRumper or redneck is delusional and crazy.