Never Laugh at a Narcissist

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[jazminerose]

Narcissists are high maintenance creatures with little hope of changing. The personality disorder is baked into them. Barack Obama shows the thin skinned nature of the narcissist in his responses to criticism.

Narcissists also have no intestinal fortitude for ridicule. Not only does Barack Obama lash out at critics, he is entirely devoid of the kind of self deprecating humor that can be so endearing in people in power.

Obama’s mentor, Saul Alinsky understood the use of ridicule as a weapon: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule.” (Rules for Radicals, Pg. 128).

Early in his presidency, Obama chose Rush Limbaugh as his target of choice. The mission is to get the enemy to react, which gives the revolutionary a measure of power and control over the prey. Alinsky doesn’t address this directly, but it would seem prudent to avoid selecting targets that are smarter than you are. Limbaugh deftly and entirely predictably turned Obama’s provocation into a ratings bonanza.

[afraidfortherepublic]

you have to make decisions and sometimes cutting them out is the best thing you can do for your own survival

That's my desire for Obama -- just cut him out of my life, out of my government, and out of my business.

[Munz]

I just ran across this post today.

So tell me please .. how we can use it against Obama in a campaign to tip him into expose facts and stratagems he had no conscious intention of exposing.

Very interested since this could be useful in ‘12

[GOPJ]

After I noticed in every speech how self important he was, how he continually used the word, “I”, and how he was fixated on his own legend. During his speech on Rev Wright he said, “he disrespected me!” Say it out loud to yourself. It’s impossible to say it without sounding petulant. Yet people were mesmerized by this speech. Chris Matthews was beside himself.

I'm curious about your rather insightful comments. You're right about how the phrase 'he disrespected me' sounds when said out loud. Never been that puffed up before... strange.

Here's my question: What is it in some people that makes them respond like Chris Matthews did - what's going on with people who worship the narcissist? Any insights on that?

[I still care]

I’ve often wondered about this myself. I think it is a lack of character in a personal mode, that has come with the negation of faith and the old “Golden Rule” mentality. The “I am the center of my universe” attitude, and the lack of understanding (a Christian concept) that people in authority are the servants, the washers of the feet, of the ones they serve.

My warning bells go off when I hear someone talking like O does. But obviously other people’s don’t. Christians will say, “I had a check in my spirit”, when they hear something just “off”. But it’s not in man’s nature to spend time listening to their inner self, and one of the big changes of the past hundred years is that it’s not encouraged by the culture. I think more than anything that kind of thought is responsible for the hedonism, the self-absorption of today’s lifestyle.

For instance, did you hear O say the other day, “If you love me, you’ll pass this bill!” If Bush had talked that way, we would never have tolerated it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoJK7PymvtA

Could you imagine Bush out there saying this? It’s just so mindblowingly creepy.

[GOPJ]

Saul Alinsky wrote the book Rules for Radicals - a book that to this day guides the thinking of most leftists. Hillary Clinton wrote her Master's thesis on Alinsky. He was a community organizer in Chicago in the 40's, 50's and 60's.

[ichabod1]

This reminds me of people like my boss, who think they have a great sense of humor because when they joke, people bellow with laughter. They never consider that it’s fake laughter, and if you try to tell THEM something funny, they look at you like you just landed from Mars.

[GOPJ]

But it’s not in man’s nature to spend time listening to their inner self, and one of the big changes of the past hundred years is that it’s not encouraged by the culture.

Some years back liberals were pushing narcissism as a positive belief system with their 'high self esteem' philosophy. The high self esteem they encouraged had nothing to do with 'earned' self esteem - what they pushed narcissism. I fear if our young people were to 'spend time listening to their inner self" it would be worse. As that 'inner self' has been trained incorrectly.

I followed your Obama "if you loved me' link - it was creepy beyond words.