You probably need sleep. IDK about fictional characters but when my insomnia is really bad I sometimes do not feel alone in my room when I know that I am. This may be something similar.
Definitely research schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder as well though
IQ is a stupid pattern recognition measurement made by a eugenicist and has been used to justify racism ever since. Don't take it too seriously, it does not measure intelligence.
None of what is available to us is good. I would prefer a Bernie over a Trump anyday sure but someone like Bernie would simply be killed if they tried to affect profits too much. Never let them convince you that electing the better guy is a solution to systemic issues. Things might get marginally better for US citizens with the slightly less bad guy but our elected representatives are beholden to the capitalists, not the other way around. Once that guy is gone it will continue to get worse because the people who have real power are the ones who control the economy.
Yes certainly but the general population are not morons and calling them that is defeatism. The rugged individualism bit sucks ass and you're damn right but that can be worked on. I take offense at diminishing the public to idiots is all.
If it was not Trump someone else would take the mantle because the system needs a person like him to preserve it. I could not name someone because Trump exists and took that position so that no one else had to.
It doesn't really matter imo, fascism is not something that necessarily gets voted in or out of power. Its a symptom of and reaction to systemic failures that attempts to preserve capitalism by whatever means necessary. It isn't something brought about by individuals or imposed upon the public.
A settler colonial state going back on its word?