Psychologically, the more unconscious a person is the more suggestible they are. This means the less aware, the less mindful, the less conscious a person, the easier it is to sell them anything, especially a lie or a partial truth. We are all vulnerable to this phenomena, some more, some less. The Trump phenomenon is an example of a mass unconsciousness.
We hear many times a day of peoples’ exasperation and shock that such an emotionally wounded man as Trump could have so many people voting for him.
The Trump Phenomenon 
An unconscious emotional wound is shared by Trump and his followers. From a young age they were trained in denial and scapegoating others as an emotional coping strategy. They have not learned a certain degree of social and emotional intelligence which would include empathy and self reflection. Denial and scapegoating work in the short term but at huge costs in the long term.
We all have the potential for healthy denial, we do not say everything that pops into our mind. And we can develop healthy discrimination of individual differences. Cruel judgement is unnecessary and harmful. Hating on someone is usually a cover-up for fear and helplessness.
Suggestibility of His Followers and “Mass Psychosis”
“The greatest danger about unconsciousness is proneness to suggestion…….Hence the ever-widening split between conscious and unconscious increases the danger of psychic infection and mass psychosis.” C.G Jung, Collected Works
Definition of psychosis: disconnected from reality
The more one ignores his/her emotional life the easier it is to be manipulated.
We can stay emotionally young in adult bodies if we don’t do the work. The Trump phenomenon is a perfect example. It is crazy and dangerous.
Now more than ever we can see a spectrum of emotional intelligence and emotional primitivity in our country that has nothing to do with logic, rationality or common sense. It is emotional. That is why the truth does not begin to touch the problem. It is a problem of unconscious, undeveloped primitive emotions.
For example: “I will believe a lie because it temporarily saves me from feeling what I am actually feeling and from learning to think for myself. If someone tells me, “it is all their fault”, I can avoid feeling my fear and my responsibility to do anything about the problem. They did it!
Therefore, someone can come along and spin a lie that feeds unconscious fear and helplessness. “It will be alright because they caused the problem and we simply need to get rid of them.” That is a very naive, simplistic, and narrow point of view.
Empathy and self reflection can be taught even to young children. must see
“The more unconscious a man is, the more he will conform to the general canon of psychic behavior.” C.G. Jung, Collected Works
What can I do?
(1)Recognize and acknowledge that we have psychotic attitudes and behavior alive and well in our country.
One does not have to be in a mental hospital to have a major part of one’s personality ruled by psychotic perspectives.
Panic does not help. Understanding and accepting that many people are disconnected from reality does help. That is a part of reality. If we deny that fact we may get disconnected from reality.
Psychotic thinking reaches far beyond the mental hospital. And if we have a group of people with the same psychotic fantasies, that becomes the new “normal” for them. It becomes a type of imaginary reality.
For example: We have the tragic reality of gun violence in our country and a 
huge resistance against better gun laws. That is psychotic. It is not political. How many children have to die?
The resistance to gun laws is a symptom. It is a symptom of an unconscious emotional problem of psychotic proportion. It is a symptom of deep emotional fear that has not been faced. The self preservation fear from an imaginary bad man out weighs the reality of mass shootings. Psychotic, right?
Money and education do not make any difference. In fact, money and education can be another way to repress fear.
It is not rational. The mind is “split” as Jung describes.
Michael Moore: “Well, folks, this isn’t an accident. It is happening. And if you believe Hillary Clinton is going to beat Trump with facts and smarts and logic, then you obviously missed the past year of 56 primaries and caucuses where 16 Republican candidates tried that and every kitchen sink they could throw at Trump and nothing could stop his juggernaut………
And there is no doubt in my mind that if people could vote from their couch at home on their X-box or PlayStation, Hillary would win in a landslide.”
(2)Accept that logic and morality is a useless intervention to change someone that is so deeply hurt.
Psychotic problems need boundaries. That is why we have straight jackets, hospitals, medications and psychotherapy. This Trump phenomenon needs a vote for Hillary, no matter what we think of her politics. We can vote for Hillary, even though we would rather have Bernie or Michelle Obama for president.
Michael Moore has this suggestion: “You are responsible for getting 50 people to the polls November 8…….So many people have given up on our system and that’s because the system has given up on them. They know it’s all bullshit: politics, politicians, elections. The middle class in tatters, the American Dream a nightmare for the 47 million living in poverty. Get this straight: HALF of America is planning NOT to vote November 8. Hillary’s approval rating is at 36 percent. CNN said it last night: No one running for office with an approval rating of 36 percent has ever been elected president (Trump’s is at 30 percent).”
(3) We need a little more stability when we are with people in an aroused psychotic sort of frenzy. Psychologically and emotionally we need to relax and open our consciousness to what is coming up within ourselves and those around us.
Staying conscious of the rising and falling of the breath helps to stay grounded and conscious of what we are feeling and thinking.
As we relax and begin to feel our feet, literally, on the ground there is also an awareness that we feel afraid and helpless too, just like “them” only we are aware of it and consciously choosing to learn about it. Being empathetic with ourselves can go a long ways.
We now need to feel and work with something “they” are not capable of feeling and working with yet. We can acknowledge our fear and helplessness because it points the way to courage and how to help the present situation and ourselves to not get lost in all the craziness.
Somebody needs to drive the boat when others are too hurt and confused to even know that they are on a boat. As we hold this kind of awareness the craziness has a better chance of settling down and we all can learn something together about not “splitting” ourselves in half.
