Kamala Harris' social awkwardness is probably (mostly?) voluntary yet unconscious, not organic, ie, probably *not* pseudobulbar affect [CHAOS OVERLOAD, part3]

Context: In yesterday’s spontaneous video, I commented on the possibility that America’s Vice President and current Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris appears to evidence brain impairment per 1) her lack of intellect and 2) her notably abnormal laughing which could also be a manifestation of brain disease, specifically pseudobulbar affect, ie, emotional incontinence. Following a bit more review and consideration, I’m inclined to think that her unusual laughter is probably an extension of her social awkwardness and intellectual unawareness and is not at all or not entirely due to some possible brain disorder.

Pseudobulbar affect is a clinical syndrome characterized by the conscious inability to control inappropriate emotional responses, manifesting as uncontrollable laughing or crying discordant with the social setting.

• Sum: Pseudobulbar affect = 1) conscious 2) uncontrolled 3) inappropriate laughing/crying

  • “PBA results from damaged neurological circuitry in the brain; PBA is best classified as a neuropsychiatric syndrome. In other words, PBA is a brain condition accompanied by dysfunctional emotional expression.” my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/17928-pseudobulbar-affect-pba

• Cause: Pseudobulbar affect is caused by organic brain disease such as multiple sclerosis or brain injury from trauma; it can also occur slowly and progressively as a result of dementia.

  • "Pseudobulbar affect (PBA) may occur in association with a variety of neurological diseases, and so may be encountered in the setting of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, extrapyramidal and cerebellar disorders, multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, and brain tumors." Ther Clin Risk Manag. 2013; 9: 483–489

People with the condition are generally aware of their inappropriate responses: 1) they try to control the laughing/crying response, but 2) they cannot control it.

In contrast, the inappropriate and socially-awkward laughter commonly displayed by Kamala Harris is —per my best estimation— probably not purely organic. I am guessing that she uses it unconsciously for strategic reasons:

1. to buy herself some time while she is formulating a response to the moment, and

2. to give the appearance that she is comfortable and casual in various situations even when she is not — ie, she uses it as a shield and distraction,

3. rapport for defense strategy, ie, “let’s giggle-laugh-smile and please don’t ask me any hard questions.”

Her lack of social acumen/awareness is also displayed in her showings of her “blackness” in her discovery of “black music records” and “black southern food” especially collard greens.

To any reasonable adult functioning in high-level professional positions and high-level public-governmental roles, these topics would not be worthy of mention in spontaneous/genuine/unprovoked public discussion; she’s using these to try to appeal to the African-American market of voters.

Her bewilderingly absurd story about collard greens is actually listed on the website of the United States White House, as if we didn’t have better things to talk about:

And — and I was about to head out of town to meet my family and cook for Thanksgiving. I won’t mention where I was going, but where I was going, I knew I was not going to be able to find the kind of greens there that I could get here. (Laughter.) And so, yes, that was me, in my suit and heels, walking through Charleston International Airport, carrying two big plastic bags full of fresh South Carolina collard greens. (Laughs.) (Applause.) It’s a true story. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/06/10/remarks-by-vice-president-harris-at-the-south-carolina-democratic-party-blue-palmetto-dinner-2/

I am not trying to be unnecessarily critical of Kamala Harris, but we all have the right and the ability to evaluate and estimate the neurocognitive function of an American political candidate, especially at the national level. I am also not drawing any medical conclusions or making any diagnosis, other than the following social-personal observations:

1. Kamala Harris is consistently socially awkward, but/and I am inclined to think that this is mostly 1) voluntary, 2) strategic, and/or 3) unconscious, ie, not necessarily although possibly at least partly due to some type of real/organic brain insufficiency,

2. Kamala Harris’ comments that she repeats (ie, not accidental or spontaneous) are intellectually inadequate for someone at a high-level political position. This aspect of her behavior could have an organic component.

3. She repeatedly fails to demonstrate high-level of knowledge of anything that falls within her range of responsibilities.

A major problem in American politics is that we as American voters are forced to choose among the “lesser of available evils” including the “lesser of available brain-damaged and mentally impaired politicians.”

It’s all fraud. A nation of 350MILLION people has better candidates than the ones we are offered. The disappointing offer is itself demoralizing because we know our country can and should be better.

“What really makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other kind of dictatorship to rule is that the people are not informed,” “If everyone always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but that no one believes anything at all anymore — and rightly so, because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, to be ‘re-lied,’ so to speak.” A lying government pursuing shifting goals has to ceaselessly rewrite its own history, leaving people not only dispossessed of their ability to act, “but also of their capacity to think and to judge,” she declared. “And with such a people you can then do what you please.” THINKING WITHOUT A BANISTER, Essays in Understanding, 1953-1975, by Hannah Arendt

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