This isn’t news to any sentient person. I fear this NYT position paper on Trump’s unfitness serves more to protect/benefit the NYT going forward, than warning the citizenry of the danger of a Trump presidency.
Thank you, Dr. Lee, for your insightful Substack newsletter articles. It is good to note the vindication of the viewpoints of you and your colleagues in a prominent American publication that previously expressed differing views. Patient perseverence with truth eventually results in vindication, if not in a more grand manner than the original opposition, at least equally so in life's disbursement of blights and blessings. This issue encourages further scholarship and mastery of all things psychiatric and psychological, and the continuing connectivity of health professionals in the sung and unsung cause of mental health.
Bandy, I'm glad you commented on this New York Times article which I gratefully received after seven years of dangerous denial on their part. Yesterday's article read like it was written by you, without giving you any credit. The article also failed to mention any regret over stifling this very information for the last seven years which effectively denied the NYTimes-reading public access to your considerable expertise and that of your colleagues in total.
I'm grateful that the editorial board, at least, is finally recognizing the glaring truth. But where were they on January 7, 2021 and for all of these subsequent years not to mention the first four years of Trump's so-called administration? So I'm grateful but also angry.
But still, it's helpful to remind ourselves that even though there are dark days and dark years when no one in the media is listening to the expertise of mental health professionals that if we keep writing, and speaking where we can, eventually our perspectives can permeate and spread. I took as heartening anytime I heard a TV anchor or read an editorial that used the word "dangerous," or "unfit." Now these words are commonly used, at least by somewhat enlightened members of the media, and that would not be the case if you and others had not persisted.
Thank you so much for your continuing leadership regarding the importance of educating the public, including, and maybe especially, journalists. We need courses in personality disorders in every journalism school, helping journalists recognize the signs and symptoms of serious pathology especially in candidates for public office or any place where decisions are made that affect the rest of us. Your books are the perfect texts for these someday courses.
I've already read parts of that essay, as I'm a paid subscriber. From some of the wording and what I already know from Dr. Lee, I was struck by similarities. In parts, the essay came across as the authors having even consulted her, while of course without ever making mention. Reading this essay further showed to me the importance of her presenting those three levels of prevention--primary now being tragically way too late.
Way too late relative to what should have been? Yes. Tragically way to late? IMHO, no. Instead, better now than in November.
We must not be naively optimistic, but we must also not be cynically pessimistic, which is because it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. If I act based on the assumption I won't catch a fish, then I won't fish, and then I won't catch a fish.
There's always a potential for making things better, while there also can be a difference between self-fulfilling prophesy and accuracy based on data. My confidence is further eroded now that Trump was shot at and shown bleeding and with his fist up. Maybe nothing can further enhance or diminish MAGAt worship of him; however, now it may be reinforced hero worship. (Don't get me wondering paranoid-like about a hideous set-up just after the New York Times essay about him being totally unfit.) It's an ironic coincidence that The Atlantic just posted a very long essay titled "The New Anarchy," with a quote: "...radicalized individuals with shape-shifting ideologies willing to kill their political enemies..." I associate it with "Trump contagion" even turned on himself though highly likely with long-term benefits for him, given that he survived it.
"We are only two people … but that is how things change."
Those are the words spoken by Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze) to Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) in "The Courier" (2020 film), the true story of two people who played an absolutely essential role in preventing WWIII during the Cuban missile crisis of the early 1960s.
What did they ask from everyone else in return for their sacrifice? That we not stick our collective heads in the sand, but that we keep the faith.
Sunday July 14 - The republican national convention (actually the trump national convention) goes forward in 2 1/2 Days In Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Wednesday, September 18 - Trump's Sentencing Hearing on 34 Felony Convictions & 10 Contempt Findings has been rescheduled to 9/18/24.
Take note that the 10 Contempt rulings are for behavior in violation of the Court's Protective Order (PTO) to protect jurors & witnesses & are NOT subject to any purported "immunity" opinion by SCOTUS.
You have to wonder about a paper that says Trump "may present a danger..." May? Really" MAY? That is the definition of obtuse.
Thank you Dr. Lee for all you've done to warn us.
This isn’t news to any sentient person. I fear this NYT position paper on Trump’s unfitness serves more to protect/benefit the NYT going forward, than warning the citizenry of the danger of a Trump presidency.
Thank you, Dr. Lee, for your insightful Substack newsletter articles. It is good to note the vindication of the viewpoints of you and your colleagues in a prominent American publication that previously expressed differing views. Patient perseverence with truth eventually results in vindication, if not in a more grand manner than the original opposition, at least equally so in life's disbursement of blights and blessings. This issue encourages further scholarship and mastery of all things psychiatric and psychological, and the continuing connectivity of health professionals in the sung and unsung cause of mental health.
Let us hope, Bandy, that enlightenment delayed is not enlightenment denied.
Bandy, I'm glad you commented on this New York Times article which I gratefully received after seven years of dangerous denial on their part. Yesterday's article read like it was written by you, without giving you any credit. The article also failed to mention any regret over stifling this very information for the last seven years which effectively denied the NYTimes-reading public access to your considerable expertise and that of your colleagues in total.
I'm grateful that the editorial board, at least, is finally recognizing the glaring truth. But where were they on January 7, 2021 and for all of these subsequent years not to mention the first four years of Trump's so-called administration? So I'm grateful but also angry.
But still, it's helpful to remind ourselves that even though there are dark days and dark years when no one in the media is listening to the expertise of mental health professionals that if we keep writing, and speaking where we can, eventually our perspectives can permeate and spread. I took as heartening anytime I heard a TV anchor or read an editorial that used the word "dangerous," or "unfit." Now these words are commonly used, at least by somewhat enlightened members of the media, and that would not be the case if you and others had not persisted.
Thank you so much for your continuing leadership regarding the importance of educating the public, including, and maybe especially, journalists. We need courses in personality disorders in every journalism school, helping journalists recognize the signs and symptoms of serious pathology especially in candidates for public office or any place where decisions are made that affect the rest of us. Your books are the perfect texts for these someday courses.
I've already read parts of that essay, as I'm a paid subscriber. From some of the wording and what I already know from Dr. Lee, I was struck by similarities. In parts, the essay came across as the authors having even consulted her, while of course without ever making mention. Reading this essay further showed to me the importance of her presenting those three levels of prevention--primary now being tragically way too late.
Good insight Richard. I like many others was (past tense) a subscriber. Never going back to NYTin this advanced digital age.
Thanks. I sympathize, though I still subscribe, largely because of the opinion pieces.
Way too late relative to what should have been? Yes. Tragically way to late? IMHO, no. Instead, better now than in November.
We must not be naively optimistic, but we must also not be cynically pessimistic, which is because it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. If I act based on the assumption I won't catch a fish, then I won't fish, and then I won't catch a fish.
There's always a potential for making things better, while there also can be a difference between self-fulfilling prophesy and accuracy based on data. My confidence is further eroded now that Trump was shot at and shown bleeding and with his fist up. Maybe nothing can further enhance or diminish MAGAt worship of him; however, now it may be reinforced hero worship. (Don't get me wondering paranoid-like about a hideous set-up just after the New York Times essay about him being totally unfit.) It's an ironic coincidence that The Atlantic just posted a very long essay titled "The New Anarchy," with a quote: "...radicalized individuals with shape-shifting ideologies willing to kill their political enemies..." I associate it with "Trump contagion" even turned on himself though highly likely with long-term benefits for him, given that he survived it.
"We are only two people … but that is how things change."
Those are the words spoken by Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze) to Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) in "The Courier" (2020 film), the true story of two people who played an absolutely essential role in preventing WWIII during the Cuban missile crisis of the early 1960s.
What did they ask from everyone else in return for their sacrifice? That we not stick our collective heads in the sand, but that we keep the faith.
Good Morning Dr Lee & Everyone:
Calendar Items;
Sunday July 14 - The republican national convention (actually the trump national convention) goes forward in 2 1/2 Days In Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Wednesday, September 18 - Trump's Sentencing Hearing on 34 Felony Convictions & 10 Contempt Findings has been rescheduled to 9/18/24.
Take note that the 10 Contempt rulings are for behavior in violation of the Court's Protective Order (PTO) to protect jurors & witnesses & are NOT subject to any purported "immunity" opinion by SCOTUS.
Let Us Pray…!
As I’ve already said, I hope this message is endorsed by the NYT journalists! Also, every voter needs access to it!!! Time is of the essence!