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Metaphorical

(2,522 posts)
2. No Real Surprise Here
Sun Aug 10, 2025, 09:16 AM
Aug 10

I found this statement (from the original article) especially telling:

Supporters of Trump were less likely to feel concern for others’ suffering (lower affective empathy) and more likely to enjoy or be indifferent to others’ distress (higher dissonant empathy). Importantly, these differences were not found in cognitive empathy. Trump supporters were just as able as others to recognize emotions in others—they simply appeared to care less, on average.


These are all extreme extroverted characteristics. In Myers-Briggs terms, the Trump conservatives tend to cluster around ESXJ - highly judgmental, focused primarily on image, wealth and status, with very little introspective capability, highly aggressive and happy only when they can dominate others. They are generally psychopathic and narcissistic.

You also see them clustered in pressured sales and marketing, politics, religion, mid-to-upper level management, sports, law enforcement, and organized crime. They gravitate to power and control over others.



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Study says: Assholes vote Republican House of Roberts Aug 10 #1
Well put. nt moniss Aug 10 #7
And, for a lot cheaper, I bet! (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Aug 10 #10
Probably. House of Roberts Aug 10 #14
Plus, there is the concept of paying someone lots of money to state what is essentially a truism. (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Aug 11 #24
Exactly. If you'd asked me 20 years ago to predict who would end up voting for a fascist, racist, misogynist Midnight Writer Aug 10 #18
No Real Surprise Here Metaphorical Aug 10 #2
NPD Narcissistic Personality Disorder. sky_masterson Aug 10 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author Kali999 Aug 10 #9
Sam Vaknin said sky_masterson Aug 10 #13
Original publication ... eppur_se_muova Aug 10 #4
K&R UTUSN Aug 10 #5
It describes the appointees and hires moniss Aug 10 #6
I was gonna say jfz9580m Aug 10 #8
NSS. In other news, water is wet. niyad Aug 10 #11
And sadly, this is what makes his followers dangerous. Firestorm49 Aug 10 #12
Just another mental disposition or disorder? rickyhall Aug 10 #15
Hopefully when their fatted spray tanned golden calf is dead, they will have nothing to live for. Crowman2009 Aug 10 #16
Leader and supporters malaise Aug 10 #17
...and water is wet. PCIntern Aug 10 #19
Yeah, put this one in your "Painfully Obvious Facts" file. Paladin Aug 10 #20
They are the kind of people who purposely run over stray cats while shouting "America! Love it or leave it!". Ping Tung Aug 10 #21
Most people who voted for him probably dislike him...or disapprove of...or even detest him gulliver Aug 10 #22
Sadists. n/t moondust Aug 10 #23
Dig deeper. This is the actual original publication - not the "psy post" link provided upthread. harumph Aug 11 #25
What a surprise. Ocelot II Aug 11 #26
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