Bill Moyers On The Dangers Of So Much Dishonesty

https://billmoyers.com/story/podcast-bill-moyers-talks-with-dr-bandy-lee-donald-trump-violence-contagion-trumpism/

While millions of Americans were still trying to figure out if Trump was just a crude playboy and fast-talking con man she felt a duty to warn the country about dangerous possibilities stemming from a man who lacked the mental fitness to be president.

For almost 20 years she had been trying to understand violence. It was her calling. After earning medical and divinity degrees while studying at Yale and Harvard, and a stint at Massachusetts General Hospital, she joined Yale’s faculty to teach in both the school of medicine and the law school. In her clinical practice, she treated inmates in maximum security prisons. And in time she began applying psychiatric concepts to public health and safety.

When Trump emerged as a political candidate, everything she had learned from her career in mental health seemed to converge. She began corresponding with kindred spirits and colleagues about how best to make their voices heard. She would become the catalyst of their collaboration, and the editor of the book they produced, titled THE DANGEROUS CASE OF DONALD TRUMP. It appeared just months after Trump’s inauguration and became an instant bestseller, dubbed by The Washington Post as “the most courageous book of the year.” But not without a price. Bandy Lee and colleagues had broken ranks to speak the truth, had stirred the hornet’s nest, and the hornets came after them in swarms. Now, Bandy Lee has published another book – PROFILE OF A NATION: TRUMP’S MIND, AMERICA’S SOUL.

"Ambush Reality"

From Enter Shikari's album titled 'Nothing Is True & Everything Is Possible'

And I mean the entire world. Not just USA population, not just people legally able to vote (underage), etc.

A new posting every 6 hours on Lemmy / Reddit, a new hashtag on Bluesky / Twitter.

No More Chicanery!

No More Chaos and Nonsense Leadership!

The whole world can ask nicely for new values in leadership. Donald Trump is a terrible role model and represents fundamental mistakes in values. Donald Trump is entertaining and gives everyone a chance to mock and join total mockery, celebration of ignorance, but it is a poor choice and We The People of the entire World need to sober up from meme stupors of Total Mockery of Donald Trump - all the endless mocking - and go into rehabilitation and mass psychosis treatment. People are fully addicted to mocking and insulting Donald Trump, we truly need to sober up and come together and admit this was a historical world stage mistake driven by electric media systems.

Just because we could put Donald Trump at the top of the World Stage for TCP/IP continuous streaming mocking and total mockery, does not mean we should have. We The People need to exit the meme stupor and admit we have a problem. Thank You.

video clip of Texan Rick Roderick in 1993:

https://mastodon.social/@RoundSparrow/114501211108169479

Donald Trump's extreme popularity was explained by Rick Roderick in 1993.

1. Dorf on Golf 1987
2. Tony Clifton late 1970's
3. Rodney Dangerfield was a big fan of Andy Kaufman, and he hired Tony Clifton to open for him

"And we get for the first time a phenomenon never known in polling which is the phenomenon of not liking a person, but of liking liking a person. This is a sign you are dealing with the hyperreal. Let me go over that again: Reagan’s popularity was popular." - Texan Rick Roderick, Duke University, 1993

Assert Good: Day 14. Please consider a world-wide coming to terms with Rupert Murdoch media systems influence on people's faith + belief in billionaires, the rich getting richer. In USA, Fox News

"Coming to terms"

I have seen people complain for decades about their family and people they work with and Fox News. I call Fox News "wealth televangelism", it is messages to poor people to worship and praise landlords and rich people.

I think democracy can not function without people understanding how media ecology works. Neil Postman's 1985 book "Amusing Ourselves To Death" being the core focus that I find is an absent understanding. It is under 200 pages, well written, clear. And explains many of the problems with Internet news and television news (Fox News inclusive).

I think it should be a society goal in USA for Newsmax and Fox News to go out of business because we have rescued people who watch it - and educated them on why trusting billionaires with their pro-billionaire content wrecks democracy itself, equality and goodness in society itself.

It is in the interest of the whole world not to have out of control wealth lords / billionaires influencing everyone. A global effort to make an example of Rupert Murdoch's media network / Fox News and such is a great starting point.

It isn't presenting "1 side of 2 sides", it is presenting misunderstandings, falsehoods, cult behaviors of the audience like religion televangelism. The poor praising the rich and powerful. The whole idea that reality and truth has "2 sides" is misleading. There can be 4, 5, 6, 8, 13 or any number of solutions to problems. And the polarity of "Fox News praise the rich" vs. "everything else" is a corrupt and bad view. People need to focus on complex comprehension and understanding, not just repeating what billionaires publish on Fox News. We fundamentally have to deal with people's attractions and obedience to admire and trust rich people just for having wealth and power.

“Hatred and violence are our common enemies, not each other,” Yousafzai, a Pakistani education and human rights advocate, said Wednesday in a post on the social platform X. “The international community must act now to promote dialogue and diplomacy.”

https://thehill.com/policy/international/5289407-malala-yousafzai-india-pakistan-tensions/

“I think we have to talk about the root cause of it — we have to talk about how it comes about,” she said. “Because I believe that nobody is born a terrorist, nobody is born an extremist. These things are taught. This is part of an indoctrination.”

The laureate said she worries about the civilians, especially children, in both countries.

“Our common enemy is extremism, terrorism and violence — not each other,” added Yousafzai, who has also spoken out against the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. “We have to unite against these forces that try to divide us.”

Assert Good, Day 12. January 1944, before taking on Nazi Germany via Normandy France D-Day... "Second Bill of Human Rights" for USA. Everyone in world, please help make this a big public discussion topic

Assert Good, Day 9. May the 4th Be With You. - MAGA / Donald Trump social movement is egomania unleashed. MAGA is a cult of mass national egomania, please help! teach cult deprogramming to USA

Assert Good, Day 8. The United States of America is a population that is attracted to mocking and mockery, Donald Trump entertains people that hate him just as much as those who love him. He is a media disco ball, an object for people to concentrate mockery.

MAGA is attracted to bad, please teach remedial morality to people who believe Donald Trump is good. Please help.

YouTube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09maaUaRT4M
"MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL"

"The ‘Shared Psychosis’ of Donald Trump and His Loyalists. Forensic psychiatrist Bandy X. Lee explains the outgoing president’s pathological appeal and how to wean people from it"
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-shared-psychosis-of-donald-trump-and-his-loyalists/

Assert Good, Day 6. Please Help. All social media users across the WWW we need every American to know Bible verse Matthew 6:5 + "1 John 3:17" to address our literacy crisis, Donald Trump $59.99 Bible posing

Believer / non-believer / atheist / other religion... does not matter. We need all USA people over the age of 10 to know and understand these Bible verses, to get on the same page of our literacy crisis:

1. Bible verse Matthew 6:5
2. Bible verse "1 John 3:17"
3. Bible verse "1 John 4:20"
4. Bible verse John 1:1
5. Bible verse Galatians 3:28
6. Bible verse Romans 11:32

We have such a horrific literacy and comprehension crisis in the USA, sustained discussion focused on these 6 Bible verses should shed light on the problem. People are not comprehending the imported storybook, and it has blown into a full national crisis.

1. "MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL"

2. A 1985 book by Neil Postman, Manhattan / New York University Professor (Donald Trump's Home Town) predicted all this for America's future. On February 2, 2017 his son Andrew Postman confirmed that Donald Trump was what his father's book was ultimately about.

3. The Theory of SOCIETAL STUPIDITY by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Nazi Germany mass conformity / collective blindness

If leaders stay silent, the US won’t survive Trump’s next 100 days
Robert Reich
We are tottering on the edge of dictatorship. Powerful voices across institutions, from politics to academia and religion, must speak out
Wed 30 April 2025

We have witnessed the first 100 days of the odious Trump regime.

The US constitution is in peril. Civil and human rights are being trampled upon. The economy is in disarray.

At this rate, we will not make it through the second 100 days.

Federal judges in more than 120 cases so far have sought to stop Trump – judges appointed by Republicans as well as Democrats, some appointed by Trump himself – but the regime is either ignoring or appealing their orders. It has even arrested a municipal judge in Milwaukee amid a case involving an undocumented defendant.

Recently, Judge J Harvie Wilkinson III of the court of appeals for the fourth circuit – an eminent conservative Reagan appointee who is revered by the Federalist Society – issued a scathing rebuke to the Trump regime. In response to its assertion that it can abduct residents of the US and put them into foreign prisons without due process, Wilkinson wrote:

If today the Executive claims the right to deport without due process and in disregard of court orders, what assurance will there be tomorrow that it will not deport American citizens and then disclaim responsibility to bring them home? And what assurance shall there be that the Executive will not train its broad discretionary powers upon its political enemies? The threat, even if not the actuality, would always be present, and the Executive’s obligation to ‘take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed’ would lose its meaning.

Wilkinson’s fears are already being realized. Ice recently deported three US citizens – aged two, four and seven – when their mothers were deported to Honduras. One of the children, who has stage 4 cancer, was sent out of the US without medication or consultation with doctors.

Meanwhile, the regime continues to attack all the independent institutions in this country that have traditionally served as buffers against tyranny – universities, non-profits, lawyers and law firms, the media, science and researchers, libraries and museums, the civil service and independent agencies – threatening them with extermination or loss of funding if they do not submit to its oversight and demands.

MORE: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/30/trump-next-100-days

NOT my writing, I will add my own emphasis and commentary in a reply comment to this posting. Message from Reddit public social media comments on morning of Wednesday April 30, 2025:

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1kb3ysl/trump_seen_as_dangerous_dictator_by_most_voters/mptdbwu/

ReedTheChemist: Be skeptical of these “reports”, they don’t actually regret anything.

ReedTheChemist: These individuals are blind, gullible, and incredibly dim witted. 50% of the USA reads below a 5th grade reading level. They’re damn near illiterate. I’m sorry, I know how frustrating it is sharing the earth with humans that are essentially a different species.

Riaayo: This is not fucking true at all, and you're basically spitting in the face of the only thing that will stop fascism rising in the US: working class solidarity.

If you can't be there to off-ramp these people when the veil lifts, then just go ahead and accept the dictatorship. Because institutions aren't gonna do it for us.

I'm not saying coddle up with outright Neo-Nazis. But those people are not everyone who voted for Trump. Plenty are utterly tuned out voters who had Trump sane-washed by the media and who fell for right wing propaganda. And we can either have a better path ready to offer then when they wake up, or we can insult them and make sure they go right back into the hands of the GOP.

It doesn't matter if they deserve it, it matters if you actually want to stop this or not.

Saying every person who voted for Trump is scum of the earth, knew, and "don't regret it" is just functionally misunderstanding how fundamentally uninformed the American electorate actually is, let alone how manipulated by the media they are.

Assert Good, Day 4: Mark Carney during his victory speech after election win: “We become just by doing just acts, brave by doing brave acts. When we are kind, kindness grows. When we seek unity, unity grows. When we are Canadian, Canada grows.”

(I’m sorting communities by new and adding to any I have decent content for)

"Occupy Wall Street" September 2011
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street

"Second Bill of Rights" January 1944 thinking was correct (health insurance, housing prices, wealth concentration, farms)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bill_of_Rights

"Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result"

“In America, everyone is entitled to an opinion, and it is certainly useful to have a few when a pollster shows up. But these are opinions of a quite different roder from eighteenth- or nineteenth-century opinions. It is probably more accurate to call them emotions rather than opinions, which would account for the fact that they change from week to week, as the pollsters tell us. What is happening here is that television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. I am using this world almost in the precise sense in which it is used by spies in the CIA or KGB. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information--misplace, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information--information that creates the illusion of knowing something but which in fact leads one away from knowing. In saying this, I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed. Ignorance is always correctable. But what shall we do if we take ignorance to be knowledge?” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, 1985