I have nearly no evidence of that happening, and strokes changing personality is a well studied phenomenon. I could, of course, be wrong. Do you have any evidence to support this hypothesis?
The history of left wing leaders in the Americas and the plethora of chemicals that present as stroke like symptoms (sometimes by just, you know, causing strokes)
While strokes can impact memory and personality they usually don’t make a person with a campaign and aides forget the policy positions they’ve had for years. Or someone can remind them, and they can say “Oh, I’ve changed my mind” not “I’ve never said this easily verifiable thing and I don’t know why you’re calling me a progressive just for campaigning as a Democratic progressive”
I’m not aware of strokes - or stroke like symptoms - being particularly common among that set of people. I thought mostly the US funded military coups, funded guerillas and death squads, used financial warfare, that sort of thing. I know the CIA basically had a Wile E Coyote phase with Castro, but that never actually went anywhere that I’m aware of.
The way he changed, so quickly, suggests to me that the stroke might have caused some alterations to his personality.
Or the “stroke” was a warning and it was play ball or get another, far more violent one.
I have nearly no evidence of that happening, and strokes changing personality is a well studied phenomenon. I could, of course, be wrong. Do you have any evidence to support this hypothesis?
The history of left wing leaders in the Americas and the plethora of chemicals that present as stroke like symptoms (sometimes by just, you know, causing strokes)
While strokes can impact memory and personality they usually don’t make a person with a campaign and aides forget the policy positions they’ve had for years. Or someone can remind them, and they can say “Oh, I’ve changed my mind” not “I’ve never said this easily verifiable thing and I don’t know why you’re calling me a progressive just for campaigning as a Democratic progressive”
I’m not aware of strokes - or stroke like symptoms - being particularly common among that set of people. I thought mostly the US funded military coups, funded guerillas and death squads, used financial warfare, that sort of thing. I know the CIA basically had a Wile E Coyote phase with Castro, but that never actually went anywhere that I’m aware of.