Neuroscience Explains: Trump’s Need For Vengeance Sick, Dangerous (VIDEO)

Bobby Azarian, Ph.D., is a cognitive neuroscientist and a science writer whose work has been published in many leading journals, including Psychology Today. Dr. Azarian writes about how the neurological makeup of individuals impacts their behavior.

He has thought a lot about Donald Trump, who the Republican Party is hoping to elect as our next President. He’s used his expertise in neuroscience to write about the psychological makeup of Trump’s supporters. He is one of the many experts in psychology and neuroscience who has written about Trump’s textbook narcissistic personality disorder.

Dr. Azarian also point out that Trump in dangerously vindictive, a trait that often goes along with narcissism.

Given the thousands of lawsuits that Trump has filed against everyone from former beauty queens to multinational corporations, we already knew that.

We all heard Trump threaten to jail his opponent, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. That’s the kind of behavior usually seen from dictators in third world countries. Vindictive.

Trump has gone out of his way to publicly embarrass people whom he believes have slighted him. He once humiliated a young woman on stage by making sexual comments about her. He did it because he thought she had slighted him.

Vindictive, mean, nasty man.

Dr. Azarian writes that people who score high on a measure of vengeance are generally mentally unstable. They display uncontrollable anger and they lack empathy.

According to neuroscience, people who are narcissistic and vengeful have a hugely inflated sense of their own accomplishments and talents. They crave constant flattery and praise. Any perceived slight, any attempt to minimize their grandiosity, and these vengeful narcissists strike out immediately and harshly.

I can just heard Donald Trump saying:

“If someone hits me, I have to hit them back harder.”

Many of these vengeful narcissists seek out and achieve positions of power.

It is that power that makes these people so dangerous.

The more power a vindictive narcissist has, say neuroscientists and psychologist, the more dangerous they are. A leader with this personality type would be more interested in revenge than in the safety of the population.

So a small business owner with this type of personality disorder might be a danger to his wife and his employees. Maybe he’d sue his suppliers or contractors. Maybe his kids would suffer.

But put that man in charge of the most powerful country on earth, give him control of its army and hand him the nuclear codes. Picture that.

Imagine a scenario in which that vindictive, angry, self-absorbed President feels insulted by a leader in another country.

Dr. Bobby Azarian is right to warn us. Donald Trump is far too dangerous to be elected President of these United States.

The video below is an excellent analysis of Trump’s personality.

Featured image via YouTube screengrab.

 

 

Karen is a retired elementary school teacher with many years of progressive activism behind her. She is the proud mother of three young adults who were all arrested with Occupy Wall Street. To see what she writes about in her spare time, check out her blog at "Empty Nest, Full Life"