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Question: If your wealth totals $100, does that make you rich or poor?
Answer: If everyone else has $1, you are rich. If everyone else has $1,000, you are poor. and if everyone else has $95, you are well-off, but not rich.
Thus it is the Gap, between you and the rest — not your absolute wealth — that determines whether you are rich or poor. If there were no Gap, no one would be rich and no one would be poor, no matter how much money they had. “Gap Psychology“ is the name for the human desire to distance oneself from those below in any social ranking, and to near those above. "(an emotional aspect of the human psyhce)"
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The Gap not only is widened by wealth, but by stigmatizing. As a justification for Gap Psychology, those in a different group often are stigmatized as being ignorant, immoral, lazy, or bereft of redeeming qualities. Gap Psychology is 100% selfish. It is a survival method. To members of a social species, there come individual Darwinian advantages from being associated with the fittest members.
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Decency is the opposite of Gap Psychology. The decent person wishes to lift those below or outside the group, and does not find gratification in the downfall of the rich and powerful, or those outside the group.
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All American Presidents exhibit strong symptoms of Gap Psychology, and all during my lifetime (since WWII) have had some measure of Decency — Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson were decent men. Nixon perhaps less so, but Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, and Obama were fundamentally Decent.
And then came Trump.
I suggest that Donald Trump, with his pathological urge for aggrandizement and credit, his compulsive lying, and his evading of all blame for everything, exhibits 100% Gap Psychology, and does not burden himself with Decency. He cares nothing for the poor and everything for his own image.
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[W]e find the Republicans attempting to enact a half-dozen anti-poor, pro-rich laws to destroy Obamacare (ACA), and to widen the Gap with their many variations on tax “reform.” Trump’s repeated appointments of people to who have demonstrated antipathy to the missions of the agencies they lead, and his nominations to judgeships of people wholly unqualified to be judges, will have long-lasting, deleterious effects on America, particularly on the poor and middle classes.
In short, today’s Republican Party has tipped so far into Gap Psychology, it has lost even the semblance of decency. Like most of our past Presidents, Americans are fundamentally Decent. We root for the underdog. We are charitable. We despise unfairness. Trump is the opposite, as is today’s GOP. Thus, I believe, the GOP is out of step with America.
While Gap Psychology continues to exert a strong emotional pull on American voters, I suspect that our basic Decency will come to the fore, and that is very bad news for the GOP.
Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
https://mythfighter.com/2017/12/15/what-happens-when-gap-psychology-dominates-decency/
We are our brothers and sisters keepers. And you don't have to be Cain to know that.
If you are hungry I will feed you. If you are cold, come in my house. If you are lost, turn to me and we'll talk. We are in this together.
Answer: If everyone else has $1, you are rich. If everyone else has $1,000, you are poor. and if everyone else has $95, you are well-off, but not rich.
Thus it is the Gap, between you and the rest — not your absolute wealth — that determines whether you are rich or poor. If there were no Gap, no one would be rich and no one would be poor, no matter how much money they had. “Gap Psychology“ is the name for the human desire to distance oneself from those below in any social ranking, and to near those above. "(an emotional aspect of the human psyhce)"
...
The Gap not only is widened by wealth, but by stigmatizing. As a justification for Gap Psychology, those in a different group often are stigmatized as being ignorant, immoral, lazy, or bereft of redeeming qualities. Gap Psychology is 100% selfish. It is a survival method. To members of a social species, there come individual Darwinian advantages from being associated with the fittest members.
...
Decency is the opposite of Gap Psychology. The decent person wishes to lift those below or outside the group, and does not find gratification in the downfall of the rich and powerful, or those outside the group.
...
All American Presidents exhibit strong symptoms of Gap Psychology, and all during my lifetime (since WWII) have had some measure of Decency — Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson were decent men. Nixon perhaps less so, but Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, and Obama were fundamentally Decent.
And then came Trump.
I suggest that Donald Trump, with his pathological urge for aggrandizement and credit, his compulsive lying, and his evading of all blame for everything, exhibits 100% Gap Psychology, and does not burden himself with Decency. He cares nothing for the poor and everything for his own image.
...
[W]e find the Republicans attempting to enact a half-dozen anti-poor, pro-rich laws to destroy Obamacare (ACA), and to widen the Gap with their many variations on tax “reform.” Trump’s repeated appointments of people to who have demonstrated antipathy to the missions of the agencies they lead, and his nominations to judgeships of people wholly unqualified to be judges, will have long-lasting, deleterious effects on America, particularly on the poor and middle classes.
In short, today’s Republican Party has tipped so far into Gap Psychology, it has lost even the semblance of decency. Like most of our past Presidents, Americans are fundamentally Decent. We root for the underdog. We are charitable. We despise unfairness. Trump is the opposite, as is today’s GOP. Thus, I believe, the GOP is out of step with America.
While Gap Psychology continues to exert a strong emotional pull on American voters, I suspect that our basic Decency will come to the fore, and that is very bad news for the GOP.
Rodger Malcolm Mitchell
https://mythfighter.com/2017/12/15/what-happens-when-gap-psychology-dominates-decency/
We are our brothers and sisters keepers. And you don't have to be Cain to know that.
If you are hungry I will feed you. If you are cold, come in my house. If you are lost, turn to me and we'll talk. We are in this together.
