--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <no_re...@...> wrote: <snip> > Judy et al, I know it's tempting to say he's always been > this bad, but seriously, don't you think he's deteriorating?
Oh, my goodness, unquestionably. I've said so a number of times now. He used to be able to hold a conversation--there are lots of examples back on alt.m.t, and even some early on in his tenure here. His disagreements were never agreeable, but there was much, much less in the way of protracted, vicious personal attacks. His logic was always flawed, and--let's be charitable-- his memory for facts poor, but the quotient of barefaced lies was far lower. What's so worrying now is the number of huge bloopers he makes, such as--just for one of dozens of examples-- mistaking a right-wing man's blog for one by a liberal feminist woman. And I can't recall any outright misogyny until quite recently. The deterioration started slowly, after he moved to Paris. Each time he's found himself unsatisfied where he was and has moved somewhere else, the angle of descent has become steeper. He's become angrier, unhappier, less able to reason logically, more sunk in fantasy, more prone to blatant lying, and, as noted, much more likely to get things just plain wrong. He also has *much* more frequent meltdowns where he totally loses control. It's sad to watch. Whatever there was that was positive about his personality has just about completely disappeared.
