It makes perfect sense if you have such a high opinion of yourself and your worth that you feel an injustice being committed that others aren't seeing the same thing. You feel you deserve better.
Overly high self esteem is a key part of narcissism. Like I've said a few times. Back in the 80s and 90s it was believed school bullies had low self esteem, that that was why they bullied people. For all the reasons people here have suggested. So there was a big movement to improve self esteem, the thinking being that by doing that, they wouldn't be so inclined to bully people.
But it was a big mistake. Most of the bully's didn't have low self esteem, their self esteem was already way too high and reinforcing that just made them feel even more deserving, it made things even worse.
Believe whatever you like. But I'm not remotely convinced trump or people like him have low self esteem.
So you disagree with the premise of the piece on the review article I posted (and the article)? I'm surprised. I felt it was compelling.
It's not so much that I disagree with it, more that I feel we are using the words a little differently.
Having overly high self esteem doesn't have to mean you are also narcissistic. But in practice I think most of the time the same underlying causes of the narcissistic personality also drive the excessive self worth. Basically I think it's all a part of the same phenomenon. And I think it's unusual for people to have that kind of an inflated self esteem to not also have narcissistic tendencies with it.
People with healthy self esteem don't feel better than other people. But someone with excessively inflated self esteem is going to notice more readily when others don't reinforce their feelings of themselves back to them. It's all very complicated cause the mind is very complicated. But the point here is that I do NOT believe people like this have low self esteem. I see no rational reason to think that, it goes against what my instincts tell me, it goes against everything I've read. I just don't see any reason to think that. It doesn't feel right, it doesn't match the evidence. The only justification I can see to believe it is this naive and largely discredited notion held by our culture that bullies secretly have low self esteem. That their behavior is a coping mechanism for their low self esteem, rather than the truth being that they really DO think they are better and more deserving to other people.
I believe what I believe cause it's what my instincts for people tell me, which I trust. And because it's what the evidence I've seen suggests.
, it's easiest to villify one person everyone knows. Ergo Trump??
