{"id":11015,"date":"2020-08-13T07:31:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T05:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=11015"},"modified":"2020-08-13T07:59:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T05:59:08","slug":"if-donald-trump-had-a-selfie-stick-wed-all-be-in-the-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=11015","title":{"rendered":"If Donald Trump Had a Selfie Stick, We\u2019d All Be in the Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/billmoyers.com\/story\/donald-trump-selfie-americas-worst-side\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas Singer, billmoyers.com<\/a>, four years ago:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/billmoyers.com\/story\/donald-trump-selfie-americas-worst-side\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11016\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/If-Donald-Trump-Had-a-Selfie-Stick-Wed-All-Be-in-the-Picture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1017\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/If-Donald-Trump-Had-a-Selfie-Stick-Wed-All-Be-in-the-Picture.jpg 1017w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/If-Donald-Trump-Had-a-Selfie-Stick-Wed-All-Be-in-the-Picture-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/If-Donald-Trump-Had-a-Selfie-Stick-Wed-All-Be-in-the-Picture-768x331.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1017px) 100vw, 1017px\" \/><\/a>Because a single powerful leader will draw from the rest of us powerful projections ranging from savior to devil, from healer to destroyer, I have long been interested, as a psychiatrist and Jungian psychoanalyst, in the relationship between politics, mythology and psychology. For people like me, this is our year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Over the last three and a half years I&#8217;ve consistently seen US media treat Donald Trump as if he&#8217;s an evil visited on a helpless US by outside forces, imposed by Russia, voted in by dumb rednecks in flyover states.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile I read German commentators talking about the actions of the US, not Trump. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tagesspiegel.de\/themen\/reportage\/us-sanktionen-gegen-sassnitz-wie-eine-deutsche-kleinstadt-in-den-kampf-der-grossmaechte-geriet\/26085600.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tagesspiegel<\/a> yesterday had a piece explicitly pointing out the sanctions Sassnitz was threatened with last week were imposed by the US Congress, not Trump.<\/p>\n<p>This summer US media wryly bemoans the fact American tourists are shunned by Europe, as if Americans stand somehow wrongly accused, not responsible for the pandemic raging across the US.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tagesspiegel.de\/politik\/deutsch-amerikanisches-verhaeltnis-an-tiefpunkt-drohen-demuetigen-und-ausserdem\/26076178.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sigmar Gabriel<\/a> writes the actions of the US Senators are &#8222;incomprehensibly arrogant and dumb&#8220;. I think this phrase is a good one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Singer, billmoyers.com, four years ago: Because a single powerful leader will draw from the rest of us powerful projections ranging from savior to devil, from healer to destroyer, I have long been interested, as a psychiatrist and Jungian psychoanalyst, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=11015\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}