William Lindsey Aug 9, 2025

"A new psychological study has found that people who report favorable views of Donald Trump also tend to score higher on measures of callousness, manipulation, and other malevolent traits—and lower on empathy and compassion. The findings, based on two large surveys of U.S. adults, shed light on how personality traits relate to political beliefs, including support for Trump and conservative ideology."

~ Eric W. Dolan

#Trump #authoritarianism #empathy #psychopathy
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https://www.psypost.org/trump-supporters-report-higher-levels-of-psychopathy-manipulativeness-callousness-and-narcissism/

Trump supporters report higher levels of psychopathy, manipulativeness, callousness, and narcissism

Support for Donald Trump is linked to darker personality traits, including increased psychopathy and decreased empathy, new research finds. The study also connects conservative political beliefs to lower benevolence, suggesting personality may shape how people engage with politics and ideology.

PsyPost Psychology News
Show threadAllyAug 10, 2025
@wdlindsy I've been saying this for years. Its the politics of psychopathy. Of predators. The ultimate struggle, the one preventing us from solving almost every other struggle, is tragically simple. Its empaths vs psychopaths. Humanity vs inhumanity. Good vs evil. They are the enemy. They are evil. That's all there is to it.
Show threadJayAug 10, 2025
@InfoDumpTruck @wdlindsy You’ve made several posts in this thread that exhibit black and white thinking, dehumanization, and a belief that if we eliminate one inherently and permanently broken group of people, all problems will be solved, otherwise it’s all lost. Do you not see how this is the psychology of fascism?
Show threadAllyAug 10, 2025
@WhiteCatTamer @wdlindsy when psychopaths dehumanize us, its projection. When we dehumanize them, its an observation. That's the difference. Don't let them DARVO you that hard. They are the problem.
Show threadJayAug 10, 2025

@InfoDumpTruck @wdlindsy Please don’t belittle me by assuming my concern is borne from manipulation.

My concern is that you are failing to recognize immoral or antisocial behaviour is not an intrinsic or permanent state of being and by failing to recognize this, you give yourself and others a pass to engage in the exact behaviour you are decrying. This is decidedly UNempathic, and I hope your studies in psychology will challenge this reflexive and dogmatic thinking.

Show threadAllyAug 10, 2025
@WhiteCatTamer @wdlindsy don't belittle me by suggesting I don't have empathy for psychopaths. I do. My FAMILY is full of them. I'm not advocating for torture or revenge or "punishment". Just for damage control, whatever that takes. Its not lacking empathy, its self defense.
Show threadJayAug 10, 2025

@InfoDumpTruck @wdlindsy You can’t say you don’t lack empathy when you describe another person as not being human.

I try not to assume that most people, including people in this thread, are doing anything more than expressing frustration at the antisocial and manipulative behaviour that people engage in. But your repeated posts indicate a rigidity of thought that stems from dehumanization of (to you) an acceptable target. And that’s something you need to work on.

Show threadAllyAug 11, 2025
@WhiteCatTamer @wdlindsy its not rigidity of thought, not stemming from dehumanization, its not frustration, and I don't need to work on it. Its an observation that I want to make very clear for others. You need to work on your reading comprehension or your ability to process hard truths, if anything.
Show threadJayAug 11, 2025
@InfoDumpTruck @wdlindsy I do accept that some people are more prone, for whatever reason, to engage in terrible behaviour and that it is both prudent and acceptable to be wary of or reject association with said people. Had you stuck to that, you and I would not disagree.
Show threadJay
@InfoDumpTruck @wdlindsy I do not accept that anyone isn’t human because that denies both their and my own humanity. I make allowance for heated language, but when it consistently and repeatedly hits different elements of dehumanization, and from someone who claims to hold this view in a psychology-based professional setting, then at best, you are being sloppy with language and at worst, someone who has already justified disregarding others.
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Show threadJayAug 11, 2025
@InfoDumpTruck @wdlindsy I don’t expect to change your mind here, so I don’t see much value in continuing to talk. What I hope to do is provide pushback and to indicate to the audience that there is a fine and important line to be drawn between cutting yourself off from harmful people, and dehumanizing them.