Mouth-to-Mouth President Sanders

Psychologists call them Cluster B “fixers.” They are people who, for healthy and unhealthy reasons, have a need, a drive to jump instinctively into crises. Sometimes such folks do so because of deep personal needs or unhealthy psychopathic motivations; other times they do so because they fear that theirs is the leadership and direction needed immediately.

Couldn’t help think about this when I watched the news videos of Senator Sanders running off stage to help the nearby person who collapsed near him as he was speaking. Instinctively, he ran over and joined the immediate crowd to … what? … ensure that his leadership skills were available? Actually do the medical intervention? Or, as the late-night comics joked, to scream the guy back to life so he can vote?

A small, seemingly silly issue, perhaps, but merged with the ways in which candidate Sanders wants nations that deeply hate each other to just bring their arguments and fights together -- similar to his insistence that revolutionary changes be the defibrillator for shocking the financial sector into awareness -- and one begins to wonder: Does Senator Sanders need Cluster F#cks to be the president? Is our culture on life support and in desperate need of emergency intervention provided by a dynamic and reactionary leader?

Under normal circumstances, it’s safe to say that most thinking people wouldn’t want a national leader to run wantonly into a situation -- crisis, severe, or otherwise -- without some semblance of contemplation. Doing so opens the reactor (and thus our country as a whole) to all types of unexpected and unanticipated realities. Such tactics can even signal to ne'er do wells a vulnerable avenue of manipulation. They need only create or exaggerate a crisis and the president might well swoop in with rapid, emotive, and super-hero responsiveness while the real play goes on elsewhere.

We miss it when a person seems in need. It’s thus easy for us to see a wannabe President Sanders as being heroic, going so far as to offer mouth-to-mouth resuscitation the person in need rather than worry at all about what’s happening around him (or her). Yet we must not forget, this same need to be at the front to grab attention and be “the fixer” is exactly what motivates crazy, unleashed, possibly unhinged megalomaniacs with their own delusions of leadership, right Dr. Trump?

This country is coming face to face with a decision about what kind of person the future needs. More so than ever, the choices are edged with degrees of worry, concern, even critical urgency. Cluster f#cks can be expected. A measure of success has got to be what the final result is, not just who wildly runs into the fire first.  

Do hope the guy who passed out is well. Haven’t heard much about that in the limelight of Sander’s jump into this need for recovery. Nor has there been word as to whether the Secret Service were neglected as they had their own heart attacks.