Trump is Converting Democrats

Not really surprising:

Donald Trump may be winning converts from an unlikely source — Democrats — a new unpublished poll shows.

What’s more, according to the poll, Trump is tied with Hillary — and in fact, the Republican candidate is within striking distance in several historically Democratic states…

Attending the Platform Committee of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, Connecticut GOP National Committeewoman Patricia Longo told Newsmax: “When you recall how many people changed parties and how easily Mr. Trump won our primary, you understand why his appeal to blue-collar voters and average Americans is changing the landscape in our state.”

Obviously some Democrats may have finally figured out that the modern left represents the death of America. But there may be other dynamics at play as well.

One facet of narcissists is an awareness that they are trying to get away with something they shouldn’t be doing. In interpersonal relationships, narcissists are trying to screw over all the people they have relationships with.

When you know one, this won’t register on your radar, because the screwing over they are doing is so often entirely superfluous, and utterly pointless. They will screw you, seemingly just to do it, and even when it hurts them. You, considering the narcissist a friend or even just an associate, wouldn’t imagine acting that way, so you won’t see it being done to you. Your mantra would be, “Why would they do that? It would make no sense.”

The narcissist, constantly stalked by a paralyzing insecurity and inferiority, and innately programmed to engage in such betraying behavior, will hardly believe their good luck in getting away with it so easily each time they do it. As they contemplate it, it will produce a resultant perception that you must be astonishingly stupid to not see it.

That will trigger a wave of relief that could approach euphoria, since it will immediately negate their inferiority and insecurity complexes entirely. Viewed from their perspective, they can’t imagine how you would be so stupid, so they must be brilliant by comparison. Their clear, undeniable evidence is your cluelessness.

This does come with a catch for the narcissist, and that is their utter terror and shame in being recognized by you. If you expose the narcissist’s treachery and begin to extract retribution, rather than hardening the narcissist’s hatred for you and driving them to screw you over more, it will usually elicit total capitulation. That will bring desperate attempts to repair the damage to the relationship, using extravagant entreaties of good will, gratuitous displays of adulation, and even outright bribery. It will make no sense to you again, because if you hated someone enough to screw them over behind their back, and they caught you, your response would be to double your efforts to really screw them now that the war was open, and they were trying to screw you.

I suspect that same dynamic is at play here. If we encountered a forceful personality for the left on par with Donald, and he was destroying our movement, we would fight. It is in our nature. The harder that personality pressed, the more we would fight back.

But leftists are like narcissists. They know they are doing things they shouldn’t be doing – things that would enrage the public. As with a narcissist, the prospect of force and retribution will cow them immediately, and they will immediately move to appease their opposition to avoid any aggressive conflict. I have often marveled at how liberals exhibit an almost Stockholm-syndrome-like tendency to bow before force, be it criminal savages, Muslims, terrorists, or any violent enemy of the nation.

Nobody epitomizes strength, force, and retribution like Donald Trump. So I would expect a fair share of Democrats to ultimately be cowed by that, and then perform the mental magic that liberals do, justifying their urges with logic after the fact. Rather than realize they have a psychology that is designed to grovel in the face of force, they will find all sorts of intellectual reasons to support Donald.

Hopefully Republicans will realize that entreaties of good will, bipartisanship, kindness, consideration, and even simple decency are seen by the left as weakness, and nothing will turn the left into despots and open traitors like seeing such “weakness” in their opposition.

The way of the future is forcefulness, regardless of whether things turn K and rabbits begin dropping like flies, or whether our politicians simply become more rhetorically forceful to try and gain the favor of a populace that is just pissed off and ready to tear everything up.

This is the K-shift.