annatar1914 wrote:I have been one of those people who vainly have tried to get these Liberals to understand President Trump and the people who voted for him and will do so again, but it's no use.
It may indeed be no use. How jimjam could offer up Chomsky to persuade me when Chomsky just barely misses the mark but otherwise is saying what I've been saying is a bit bewildering. If anything, Chomsky is pretty good at dissecting the media. He just tends to ignore his own "Manufacturing Consent" when it involves political views he extols. "Manufacturing dissent" is also possible--e.g., Occupy Wall Street, Antifa, etc.
annatar1914 wrote:They see this WWE style Neuro-linguistic programming combined with their own utter hubris and fecklessness (a function of their ideology), and they absolutely do not have a clue.
The NLP stuff used to work, but they are up against Donald Trump. NLP has close ties to hypnosis. It works in sort of passive ways. So it works against Romney and the Bushes who never step outside the box. It doesn't work against Trump, because he blows representations apart and creates new ones that are true and funny--e.g., Crooked Hillary.
Some of the arrogance is breeding--e.g., Harvard, Yale, prep schools, etc. I'm a product of private schooling, so I have a pretty good insight into that sort of privilege. I have to assume there is a lot of drug use too--particularly cocaine. When you are doing obviously stupid stuff, but think you are a genius, there's often some substance abuse involved. It seems like they have no fear that they are wrong, and consequently no sense of shame or guilt for absurdly wrong analysis.
annatar1914 wrote:And hey, that's fine by me, for my own particular reasons.
Understood. For the world to move forward, this political cabal needs its comeuppance. I think the corruption went deeper than Trump thought. I strongly suspected it was pretty deep, so Trump is confirming that for me.
Hindsite wrote:I don't think he has been able to eat much since Trump got elected President.
Really? He looks pretty well-fed to me.
Hong Wu wrote:The funny thing is that running an old white man, which seems a foregone conclusion at this point, will weaken their only argument against Trump.
It's an acknowledgement of sorts that their attacks on white people have put them in a political pickle. The problem is that I don't see AOC, Tlaib, et. al. rallying around Joe Biden. It's a strange sort of thing: Biden has had staying power, but his political prognostications have been almost universally wrong. A lot of Bernie supporters didn't show up for Hillary Clinton. Creepy Joe is likely to face similar problems with millennials. After years of brainwashing in colleges and no jobs to counteract the programming, they are still imbued with the ideas of socialism which is best exemplified by someone like AOC.
Hong Wu wrote:They really don't have anything besides Russiagate.
Well, I think they were planning on the country being further to the left and nobody has updated their planning docs. The abortion debate, for example, is kind of fascinating. I would expect states like Alabama to take a bite at the apple again. Yet, Missouri and Ohio did too. That tells me that the media depiction of the issue is probably totally wrong. I thought Hillary probably killed off a million votes with her response to Trump in the second debate in 2016 on partial birth abortion. Yet, the Democrats are now arguing for post-birth abortion in places like Virginia. They even did another phony exoneration investigation of governor Norquist, claiming he's innocent of what he admitted doing while continuing to side step the real scandal of the fact that he'd be okay with killing babies after birth if that's what the mother wanted. Their ethics are just so weird: dressing up in black face is bad and offensive to millions; but, killing a new born baby, because the mother wants you to do it is a-okay. They are some seriously disturbed people.
Hindsite wrote:They are too stupid to realize that Russiagate is over.
I think it is more a function of shocked disbelief rather than sheer stupidity. These are some pretty mendacious people, and they have gotten away with so much. So they cannot believe that they have failed to take Trump out by now, but they also cannot believe that a big faction of the American people see them as an enemy, not a rival legitimate political faction. It's not contained either. Brexit and all the right wing parties in ascendance in Europe is something they simply could not foresee. They still do not seem to understand the fundamentals of why it's happening and resort only to denigrating the masses--which obviously going to fail in democratic countries.
"We have put together the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics."
-- Joe Biden