Look, I think that any successful, well adjusted person has racked up some failures and has indulged in wishful thinking. If you don't learn from those experiences, you stay stuck and you never grow. My point about Walker is he sounds like someone who is 100% certain that his views are correct, and if voters don't recognize that, somehow they're indoctrinated and need to be deprogrammed. Although I don't read him anymore, Andrew Sullivan spoke back in the Obama years about how the modern GOP has fused religious fundamentalist thinking with politics, which leads to a black and white view of the world. In Walker's mind, he can't possibly be wrong. He can't entertain that possibility because if he did, his entire worldview would likely fall apart.
Everyone should watch the Mortal Storm. It's an old black and white movie from the 40's with Jimmy Stewart. But it perfectly encapsulates the GOP of today. Once decent people drinking the Nazi Kool aid. Families broken. This is today's GOP. The Walkers of the world don't want free thought. They are trying to suffocate anything they don't like. It's going to ultimately cost them.
Just saying ... the formal medical term for what Walker and his adherents are experiencing is called Headupassness. There is no cure for it other than seeking and acquiring actual knowledge and experience.
Would you want to "introspect" given where you say his head (and eyes) are?
Rhetorical question? :)
Look, I think that any successful, well adjusted person has racked up some failures and has indulged in wishful thinking. If you don't learn from those experiences, you stay stuck and you never grow. My point about Walker is he sounds like someone who is 100% certain that his views are correct, and if voters don't recognize that, somehow they're indoctrinated and need to be deprogrammed. Although I don't read him anymore, Andrew Sullivan spoke back in the Obama years about how the modern GOP has fused religious fundamentalist thinking with politics, which leads to a black and white view of the world. In Walker's mind, he can't possibly be wrong. He can't entertain that possibility because if he did, his entire worldview would likely fall apart.
Everyone should watch the Mortal Storm. It's an old black and white movie from the 40's with Jimmy Stewart. But it perfectly encapsulates the GOP of today. Once decent people drinking the Nazi Kool aid. Families broken. This is today's GOP. The Walkers of the world don't want free thought. They are trying to suffocate anything they don't like. It's going to ultimately cost them.
Just saying ... the formal medical term for what Walker and his adherents are experiencing is called Headupassness. There is no cure for it other than seeking and acquiring actual knowledge and experience.
By losing elections and with them all that cushy power and wealth.
We always called it a "cranial-rectal inversion." It doesn't have to be chronic, but somehow usually is...
I've heard that if it continues in the same direction long enough, one begins to see the light again.
Once again...
Ideas are not conveyed in a vacuum. Ideas are wrapped in the manner by which they are conveyed.
You very well may have good ideas; but when you wrap them in such vulgar hostility, I stop hearing you through the noise of your manner of conveyance.
Just sayin'...