A professor and sociologist with the username, Socdoc216, wrote an editorial on How the Media Normalized Trump's Mental Illness and put Democracy at Risk on Daily Kos’s blog. I find this title in and of itself ironic being that the more popular, left-leaning media floods social media and the news to demote President Trump by focusing on his irrational behavior. Socdos216's main concern in this excerpt is the likelihood of President Donald Trump leading America with a mental illness.
The article begins with defining the attributes in Donald Trump as closely related to those of a mental disease such as “his fondness for telling irrational but occasionally entertaining whoppers has also obscured…the extent to which Trump is mentally ill” (par. 2), meaning that Americans should associate ridiculous accusations with a mental illness. Trust me, I’m not the biggest fan of our new POTUS, but I most definitely do not agree with deeming him mentally ill nor incapable. Who are we to judge another’s actions to the extent of their mental fortitude? You would think, health professionals and physiatrists, right? But lo and behold, Socdoc216 contests these logical ideas with the argument that “one need not be a credentialed psychologist or psychiatrist to recognize…mental illness” (par. 4). Discussing mental diseases is very sensitive and easily offensive to far too many people, let alone accusing another of being mentally incapable of performing his duty BECAUSE of this mental illness is treading on thin ice.
Socdoc216 is a credible author and makes valid opinions of our president, but with large allegations such as these against President Trump, it is very easy to offend and stoop to low levels of proving a point. Even if professionals diagnosed the POTUS, there is nothing written in the constitution prohibiting anyone physically or mentally for being in office, we the people set the standards for our presidents, we have our own specifications to judge who should oversee America.
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