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Dear Group, Correction: In my email yesterday in the first postscript I incorrectly suggested that Sheriff Knezovich subscribes to the chemtrail conspiracy theory. I wrote: “Even a man who buys into the “chemtrail” conspiracy, as Mr. Knezovich apparently does, (go to the end of the article at the link).” One of my readers followed the link and pointed out I had misread Daniel Walters’ article. My reader was correct. It was NOT Sheriff Knezovich, it was Cecily Wright, the former chairwoman (recently resigned) of the Spokane County Republican Party and continued web-mistress of the Northwest Grassroots website. I have no evidence to suggest Sheriff Knezovich subscribes to chemtrails conspiracy . However, a visit to Wright’s Northwest Grassroots website should make any voter pause and consider the mindset of local Republican fellow travelers of NW Grassroots like Matt Shea, Rob Chase, Rod Higgins, Arne Woodard, Sam Wood, and “Pastor” Pace. The Primary Results will be the subject of evaluation for a few days. Surely, the trends will be widely report in the local media. I plan to wait until they are all tallied before I comment. Trump Psychology. I want to take a break today and encourage you to read a piece from USA Today from July 30 entitled “What’s going on with Donald Trump? Psychologist explains the president’s lies, reversals” by Robert Epstein, senior research psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology. For me the article shed some light on my feeling we have an impulsive two year old for a president, a two year old with no grasp of much of anything but what he is fed by the ignoramuses on Fox News. The two concepts Epstein presents are “sympathetic audience control” and “small time windows.” I’m not sure Epstein quite captures all the pathology but it is an interesting point of view. What I’ve read of the Bannon and his relationship with Trump suggests that Bannon recognized in Trump all the maddening traits necessary to provoke the cataclysm we are now living. Mightier governments have fallen to lesser demagogues. I hope we survive this one and emerge, having heaved out the current mess that is the Republican Party, as a “kinder gentler nation.” Is it really possible that a Republican President uttered those words? (George H.W. Bush) The Republican Party of that president no longer exists. Keep to the high ground, Jerry |