Physician, heal thyself. - Luke 4:23

Ben Carson wrote an essay for Wapo. I read it. Then as I zoomed around the net, I saw another Carson essay and then another...! Ben Carson is running for POTUS in his own Ben Carson way.

There is something wrong with this Carson dude. Just wrong. And it creeps me out. Dude whispers and his eyes are all slanty shut. I do not know what the wrong is. I know this - I do not want an idiot savant to be anywhere near the proverbial button.

Blunted affect is a clinical term to define a lack of emotional reactivity (affect display) in an individual. It manifests as a failure to express feelings either verbally or non-verbally, especially when talking about issues that would normally be expected to engage the emotions. Expressive gestures are rare and there is little animation in facial expression or vocal inflection.[1] Blunted affect can be symptomatic of schizophrenia, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, depersonalization disorder,[2][3][4] or brain damage.[5] It may also be a side effect of certain medications (e.g., antipsychotics).[6] Individuals with blunted or flat affect show different regional brain activity when compared with healthy individuals.
Blunted affect is a lack of affect more severe than restricted or constricted affect, but less severe than flat or flattened affect. "The difference between flat and blunted affect is in degree. A person with flat affect has no or nearly no emotional expression. He or she may not react at all to circumstances that usually evoke strong emotions in others. A person with blunted affect, on the other hand, has a significantly reduced intensity in emotional expression".[7] = wikipedia

And the dude lies like a fuckingRepublican. He wants to defund Planned Parenthood because of fetal tissue collection. Does the dumbass fuckingRepublican not get it that he wrote a paper on an experiment he did with fetal tissue and some of us read? You can find his tortured explanation on tape if you look. No affect. I mean, blink Dude. Scratch your ear. Something. 

I am old enough to have known a man with the numbers tattooed on his arm, as well as you can know a ghost. Mr. Wollstein was not there. Never spoke. He was my playmate's Father. I have no words. 

“I think the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed,” Carson elaborated in the interview. “There’s a reason these dictatorial people take the guns first.”

The Anti-Defamation League, which monitors and responds to anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry, has long opposed the use of Nazi comparisons in the U.S. gun control debate. “The idea that supporters of gun control are doing something akin to what Hitler’s Germany did to strip citizens of guns in the run-up to the Second World War is historically inaccurate and offensive, especially to Holocaust survivors and their families,” Abraham Foxman, the ADL’s national director at the time, said in 2013.

Ben Carson says these things about the Shoah and Gay Folks with no affect. I take that back, with inappropriate affect. He is affable. He is higher than the Eagles. Lights are on but nobody is home. OMG GOP WTF?