Donald Trump is incapable of complex thinking.

[MineralMan]

He appears to have no ability to consider a large amount of information and then come to a conclusion about it. That was clear in the debate and in his inability to focus on rehearsing for that debate.

Imagine a President who makes decisions based on hunches, intuition, biases and guesses. It boggles the mind.

Hillary, on the other hand, has great ability in doing exactly that and speaks only after considering all the information at hand.

Please carry this message out to those you know who are undecided.

[BSdetect]

1. Who can possibly be undecided at this point?

You are pushing a bag of tripe uphill with your face if you think the great "undecideds" are capable of rational thought after all this time.

The scales of reason tipped long ago toward sanity.

If they can't see that then they are best left alone.

[MineralMan]

5. Actually, many are undecided.

That's especially true with millennials and more moderate Republicans. There are also many people who have not even decided whether they will even vote. For me, the election isn't over until all the polls close on November 8. You might have a different opinion about that.

I do not simply look at things, shrug my shoulders and move on without hope. I'm sorry that you seem to be able to do that.

Please vote for Hillary Clinton and encourage the people you know to go and vote and to vote for her, as well. If you can convince just one, you have doubled your vote.

[Madam45for2923]

8. Before the debate maybe some had not gotten interested in the election!?

But now so many people did tune in for the debate which means that by now most of us are up to date. Hahahaha, wondering what 1st impressions 1st timers got of Trump? Hmmmm

[MoonRiver]

18. Do you agree with the OP that DT is incapable of complex thinking?

I do.

[Hortensis]

20. I think he can IF he puts his mind to it. However,

therein lies the problem. He has an extremely short attention span and seemingly seldom wants to take on that arduous task.

Also, since his inability to be interested in anything that he does not relate to his glorious self has resulted in an astonishing, childlike level of ignorance, the quality of his complex thinking is likely to be very poor. Truly empty-headed.

[PearliePoo2]

2. The millions of people that trump appeals to have the same inability.

Sadly, imo, there's NO fixing that.

[Plucketeer]

27. Sadly

they're enamored with him because they see their same, stupid selves in him - and HEY! He's SO successful! It's proof that not ALL folks were created "Equal". If they were, selecting a new president would be as simple as holding a nationwide lottery.

[Madam45for2923]

3. You could tell also in how hard he looked at Hillary when she was talking

Like it was hard for him to take it in. While for HRC it was natural to listen & get what Trump was saying, which was inane anyway but still listening & understanding is not hard for her but it looked like it was painfully hard for him.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. The problem is,

to his supporters Trump's loathsome personality and his inability to handle a concept more complex than can be written on a bumper sticker aren't bugs; they're features. They like it that he thinks with his gut - nosiree Bob, he's not one o' them fancy eggheads who knows all them facts an' shit.

[MineralMan]

7. I do not care about his supporters.

I won't waste a moment on them. I do care about people who are considering not voting, and people who are thinking about voting for a third party candidate. Those people can still be turned in this election.

I will not give up. I will not simply shrug. I will do what I can do.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

21. Good point. There's no hope for his supporters.

But I don't get the undecideds either. How can anybody be undecided at this point?

[WiffenPoof]

33. While I understand...

...what you are saying, we may not care about his supporters... But they will be around long after the election. We're going to have to deal with them at some point.

[nruthie]

11. Bingo.

Perfect.

[GetRidOfThem]

17. The Donald is yuuuge!

And he really really likes to win. He is a winner. Remember that in the "debate"? And people love him! Yeah, they really love him.

Oh, by the way did I tell you, he is really a winner? He really likes to win.

[I think he came off like a scratched record. Yes, I agree with the original poster: He is incapable of forming larger coherent thoughts, and processing complex His speech patterns are a reflection of this severe capacity limitation...]

[Coyotl]

6. That is a symptom of dementia onset, as in Alzheimer's.

At least we know someone else will soon be running the government if he gets elected ....

[AnotherMother4Peace]

13. He is easily confused, distracted, and loses track of the subject which showed itself in his

defensive response, posture, and demeanor. This accounts for his facial "scrunches" and blustering "butt-ins".

[lark]

31. Unfortunately, that person would be crazy coservative Mike Pence.

The one who's willing to lose tens of millions of dollars of income for his state so that it is legal to discriminate against LGBT people.

[Jade Fox]

9. There is something wrong with that guy.......

Seriously. He's got the worst case of ADD ever seen. In addition to his horrible personality.

[vlyons]

10. Monkey mind

We Buddhists have a common expression, "monkey mind," to describe the undisciplined, unfocused mind that jumps from idea to idea to idea with little if any connection between thoughts. Monkey mind has no filter to sort out inappropriate and distracting thoughts and emotions. People, who speak in "word salads" are indicative of such a mindset. I feel embarrassed to see a presidential candidate who exhibits such a monkey mind.

[MineralMan]

15. A good name for it, I think.

[Cosmocat]

12. Which makes him the same as, sadly, the majority of the people in this country

explaining in part where he is now ...

[MineralMan]

16. No, not the majority, I think.

A large minority, perhaps, of the voting population, but not the majority.

[Snarkoleptic]

14. Drumpfs mind runs on "The Gut" platform.

Described by Charlie Pierce-

“Idiot America is a strange, disordered place. Everything is on the wrong shelves. The truth of something is defined by how many people will attest to it, and facts are defined by those people’s fervency. Fiction and nonfiction are defined by how well they sell. The best sellers are on one shelf, cheek by jowl, whether what’s contained in them is true or not. People wander blindly, following the Gut into dark corners and aisles that lead nowhere, confusing possibilities with threats, jumping at shadows, stumbling around. They trip over piles of fiction left strewn around the floor of the nonfiction aisles. They fall down. They land on other people, and those other people can get hurt.”
― Charles P. Pierce, Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free

[world wide wally]

19. If you know a millennial who intends to vote for Gary Johnson, explain to them that he intends to

Eliminate public educations, do away with environmental laws, Social Security (so you will have to support your elderly parents), Medicare and Medicaid, food and drug inspections, and so on. America will be a corporate free for all in every aspect.
Then suggest they Google "Libertarian Party Platform" or do it for them.

If they are smart enough to vote, they will get it.

[Thinkingabout]

30. Good point, I will be with my neighbors on Saturday, not mellennials but will point out Johnson want

to do away with SS and Medicare, he isn't for America.

[Sunlei]

22. The entire Republican party is like that, especially after they're elected. single minded hive drags

the USA backwards decades.

[unitedwethrive]

23. I believe the actual problem is his lack of formal operational thought.

Going back to college psych class, Piaget discussed development in terms of states of processing and thinking about the world. Approximately 50% of adults never fully gain the ability to process complex, abstract concepts (formal operational thought), but remain in a stage where concrete thinking dominates their way of looking at the world. It is easier for these people to see things in 'black and white' because nuance often does not allow them to feel that they have a complete understanding.

I have often thought that many lower socio-economic repubs were concrete thinkers, because they are easily swayed by politicians who offer them a world in black and white (or good and bad). But, usually the candidates are not in this category, they just use these tactics to reach the large amount of people who are susceptible to it, while putting forth their more complex economic agendas to the wealthy party members who by themselves do not have the numbers to allow a party to be viable...and who have a very different agenda from what is publically presented.

The difference here is that Trump is one of the concrete thinkers. This is why so many of the party elites have rejected him, and why he can connect so well to the larger repub base.

And why he would be so dangerous in a job that requires complex, abstract thinking.

[lunatica]

26. His thinking is so concrete that it's just cement.

[WiffenPoof]

34. Excellent post...

Whenever I'm asked what the major difference is between the Left and the Right, I often refer to the fact that those on the Right tend to see the world in black and white.

[raccoon]

37. Well, in the USA, it's at least 50% of the people who are like that, possibly more.

Approximately 50% of adults never fully gain the ability to process complex, abstract concepts (formal operational thought), but remain in a stage where concrete thinking dominates their way of looking at the world.

[Blue Idaho]

24. Either by aptitude or by attitude

Trump is not a deep thinker. I suspect he has been a "skimmer" his entire life. He may have a learning disability or he may simply be lazy - the kind of lazy inflicted on those born with a silver spoon in their mouths. Either way, I doubt he can process the kind of nuance demanded by the job of President of the United States.

[lunatica]

25. his inability to finish a sentence is not a put on

The real Trump is turning out to be what we've witnessed all along. A person incapable of following a thought to it's natural conclusion. He evidently thinks in tweet. No more than 140 characters per thought. When he runs out of characters, even if in mid word that's OK because he just jumps to the next tweet regarding something else.

It fools people into believing he thinks so fast that he has to rush to get the words out after he's jumped to another thought. Not so though.

There are two kinds of low intelligence people. those who are intelligent enough that they know they aren't very smart, and those who don't have a clue about how dumb they are. Trump doesn't have a clue which is why he thinks he can just skip preparing for a debate, or learning anything new.

I'm definitely beginning to find him a repetitious, unimaginative bore with the most limited vocabulary of anyone I know.

[Peacetrain]

28. He is frighteningly disconnected

[apnu]

29. Nothing new for a Republican pick. Remember W?

That man could not string a coherent sentence together w/out a teleprompter. And even then it was dicey and he wandered off script all the time.

[certainot]

32. he's got major a major groganzola problem

he's been diverting most of his sex energy to the left side of the brain, the left mathematical logical side of the brain - but it's supposed to go to the right emotional creative orgasmic side

what happens? where the mathematics/numbers are done sex energy creates a desire for more, bigger, faster.... and that is greed.

logic is supposed to be patient and objective but sex energy just want quick easy answers, finality, conclusion, certainty. since there is no certainty and the world is complicated sex energy on the wrong side of the brain, groganzola, creates stress and fear.

our societies and religions have evolved to present quick easy answers and opportunities to judge the world in dualities of black and white, good and bad, pretty and ugly, etc., to ease that stress and fear.

trump learned at an early age to use the creative side of the brain to rationalize accepting those quick easy answers and for judging in black and white. and whenever he opens the gate to the right creative side some of that sex energy that he keeps locked up working overtime on the left side escapes to the pleasure centers to produce the orgasmic pleasure of certitude.

how does trump get that groganzola, that sex energy to the wrong side of the brain? he learned sex with the right hand, which is connected to the left side of the brain, and burned in long lasting neural highways that divert sex energy to the left side whenever he even just thinks about sex.

he's just got more than most, due to a variety of factors, but growing up a rich kid with lots of spare time and privacy probably didn't help.

[Blue Owl]

35. He's a knee jerk

n/t

[greatauntoftriplets]

36. Incapable, yes.

Also too intellectually lazy. He wants everyone around him to say "yes" to everything he wants. He's a spoiled, self-centered child.