Credibility

We talk. We listen. We compute the inputs and integrate with our logic stream. In time – moments or months – our world view morphs a little more and represents what we believe. It is not static. It is dynamic. Sometimes we notice the changes but often we don’t, their changes are that subtle, maybe even subliminal.

When someone makes a statement that doesn’t fit with our world view we note the dissonance. We may react at the time but most often we don’t. We take the dissonance with us to another place and time in which we ponder what was encountered.

When the same person makes another statement that doesn’t fit with our world view we take more than notice; we work the dissonance long enough to determine if an error of fact has been made or if, in fact, the person is misleading intentionally or merely mistaken and uninformed.

Repeat all of the above several times in less than two months and patterns are not only recognized but they are examined and catalogued. We begin to understand the person in a broader context and are able to process his/her opinions appropriately.

Now slip into this situation that the person in question is the President of the United States of America. Ponder that for 5 minutes. Take more time if you need to.

In many ways let us provide adequate feedback to the person so he is now aware that we are aware of the dissonance and that we know that this dissonance is factual, not opinion. Observe what he does or doesn’t do.

How much time is needed to decide that the person is credible and reliable as a partner, officer of the nation, and worthy of his position. How long? Do we provide restorative assistance to him to improve on the situation, or do we conclude such will be impractical. Maybe it will prove to be impossible?

And then we face the decision: what to do?

What do you do with a President of the USA that is unreliable, maybe paranoid, and irrational?

Turning to the Constitution as contract with the people, we learn that impeachment is the remedy. The only question is when.

I think and feel it is soon. But I am not trained in these matters. Who is? Whose task is it to decide?

And is this instrumentation of governance currently operating?

I guess we shall see. Yes, we shall see.

March 23, 2017