Well, I think that it is blatantly obvious that Trump is seriously pathological. And it is quite fascinating and at the same time scary, to witness that even a lot of people on the alternative spectrum fall for the guy. And even more astounding is that, even here (of all places!), some seem to be taken in by him, in one way or the other. That doesn't bode well for the state of the world IMO, when even a lot of people who have the capacity and knowledge to know it better, fall for it. What kind of psycho Trump is, doesn't really matter, because the end result will be/is the same anyway. In the refugee crisis the same thing happens. Most of the alternative people are falling for the propaganda there also.
What makes the situation much worst today, then in the past, is the fact that so many people have a golden plate (aka. the internet and the connected world) in front of them that makes it so easy for them to find out the object truth (comared to other ages). And still most of them remain ignorant. That invites disaster on a big scale pretty quickly IMO.
Łobaczewski pretty much described the process that leads to that kind of cognitive dissonance in large portions of the population. Wheter or not Trump will become the president is another question. I don't think the polls are faked at this stage. It indeed looks like the majority is supporting trump, because he speaks openly and quite often "truthfully". People want finally someone who is honest and strait forward as president. Trump is indeed quite honest and strait forward, compared to the usual politicians. The difference is though, that he is honestly, strait forwardly and openly narcissistic/psychopathic... compared to the others. He just doesn't pretend that hard that he is a nice guy. That has nothing to do with real decency. But most people seem to think that is the case.
I'm not sure if the PTB really want him as president, because he might be just too open and not that well controllable compared to other psychos. A while ago, I read somewhere that Trump might be there to steer things up for somebody else like bush. Could very well be. I think this time it will most likely be a republican, because the overall tenor in the country seems to be, that the democrats have screwed up and Republicans need to fix it again. In order to preserve the illusion of free choice in America.
Sanders might be a wild card too, since he plays the Obama role form back then. Hope and all that.
But at this stage I wouldn't say it is impossible either that the PTB are crazy enough to actually put Trump out there as president. As for Putins stands on Trump, one should always remember that Putin is a masterful diplomat, statesman, spy, lawyer and strategist with a conscience who has a masterful team behind him as well. Everything he says and does has to be looked at from a broader perspective. We should know that by now. Part of that story might be, that Putin noticed that Trump pretends (which I think he knows, that he is pretending) that the US should be more friendly with russia and that people noticed his words about that in the US and the rest of the world. I think that is one of the reasons why he choose to say "nice" diplomatic things about Trump.
I remember when russia started to get involved in Syria: I literally started to cry, because I thought that finally things are going to change and the cards are starting to switch. Now it becomes clearer then ever, that there isn't much that will/can change the path humanity is taking. The fact that the world literally hangs in the hands of one man and his government, doesn't bode well either. What if Putin and staff wouldn't be there? The world literally hangs on a very thin thread, that can be cut any minute and in fact is well on the way towards destruction.
