The author’s risk profile should have schizophrenia
at the top of the list.
I stopped reading his cartoons and paying any attention to him a few years back when I read something that was clearly written by him, and I thought he was having a nervous breakdown.
And I am not kidding, it was alarming. I honestly can’t remember what it was about, but I didn’t just disagree with it, I was highly repulsed by both the content and delivery.
I agree with much of what I have seen him saying lately (and he has been saying a lot) but back then (2006-2012) he sounded unhinged.
I really have a hard time being able to reconcile what I am seeing now with what I saw then.
It is true that people can change their mind, but this seemed like he literally WAS changing his mind, swapping it out.
This puzzles me. I used to love his cartoons and sayings, had the books, etc. and I just stopped cold.
I think you missed what is going on. The schizophrenic risk profile is for California, which is all in for Hillary, and which is where he lives, and which he believes poses actual physical danger to him should he come out backing Trump. On the other hand, should he expose Hillary's weaknesses, praise Trump's expertise, and claim to support Hillary, Californians are literally too stupid to understand what he's doing - which, of course, is why they support Hillary in the first place.
California is a special kind of crazy. NLP is the State Religion here. Californians will describe their own insanity, hatred, and hypocrisy with extreme detail while accusing their targets of it. Rich and powerful people do it, poor and powerless people do it, bureaucrats, teachers, students, beach bums do it. And they all believe that this tactic, this single insanity causing tactic, proves how smart they are. I'm being very serious - they can't buy a gallon of milk without claiming lactose intolerance and denying they are in the store, AS they are paying for the milk.
THAT is where Scott Adams lives.