I can't argue with any of the basic premises of this piece. We are in trouble and that's a fact.
One thing I want to stress is that people as an electorate have never been about rational policy based decisions. It's *always* been about the feels and warring cultures for the last several decades. People do not look at policy and go "That's…
I can't argue with any of the basic premises of this piece. We are in trouble and that's a fact.
One thing I want to stress is that people as an electorate have never been about rational policy based decisions. It's *always* been about the feels and warring cultures for the last several decades. People do not look at policy and go "That's one is right, I will support that party." They rationalize the choice that they have already made, backfilling to make it look on thew surface like it was analysis but it never was. My friend of 40 years that's going to vote GOP down the line and for Trump is doing it because the liberal want to take his guns. That's it. He won't admit that but it is the case. All that talk of 'rule of law' in the 90s was just rationalization to get rid of Clinton. Talk of debt only matters when a Democrat is in power. This is why the electorate built by the GOP since the 70s is so dangerous because they fed the cultural beast and lie to themselves that it was 'reason' and not feels that drove the part bus.
I am against just about everything I have heard TFG has been spouting off about for the past (pick a number) of months. I mean that whatever he says, I take as a "policy" decision about how to treat your opponents, or how to ignore the Constitution or how he would like to wear an exterminator hat (for all the vermin), and know that I oppose that, meaning I have a different position on that "policy". You either want what a candidate wants, or you do not. The rest is just words to "define" that "feeling".
According to authoritarian expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat, it takes prosecution and conviction to deflate personality cults. Italian PM Berlusconi’s personality cult did not deflate until he was convicted.
In fact, I have seen some polling that shows that if Trump is convicted, it affects the level of support he has.
I can't argue with any of the basic premises of this piece. We are in trouble and that's a fact.
One thing I want to stress is that people as an electorate have never been about rational policy based decisions. It's *always* been about the feels and warring cultures for the last several decades. People do not look at policy and go "That's one is right, I will support that party." They rationalize the choice that they have already made, backfilling to make it look on thew surface like it was analysis but it never was. My friend of 40 years that's going to vote GOP down the line and for Trump is doing it because the liberal want to take his guns. That's it. He won't admit that but it is the case. All that talk of 'rule of law' in the 90s was just rationalization to get rid of Clinton. Talk of debt only matters when a Democrat is in power. This is why the electorate built by the GOP since the 70s is so dangerous because they fed the cultural beast and lie to themselves that it was 'reason' and not feels that drove the part bus.
I am against just about everything I have heard TFG has been spouting off about for the past (pick a number) of months. I mean that whatever he says, I take as a "policy" decision about how to treat your opponents, or how to ignore the Constitution or how he would like to wear an exterminator hat (for all the vermin), and know that I oppose that, meaning I have a different position on that "policy". You either want what a candidate wants, or you do not. The rest is just words to "define" that "feeling".
Correct on all of this.
According to authoritarian expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat, it takes prosecution and conviction to deflate personality cults. Italian PM Berlusconi’s personality cult did not deflate until he was convicted.
In fact, I have seen some polling that shows that if Trump is convicted, it affects the level of support he has.