AS: I am going to leave a thought and questions about a worry that I have right here. I sure expect intelligent conversation too. This is a world issue...this is not about your 401K or your job or your stupid taxes...or the economy...or immigration. Why in the almighty world that we live in would Donald Trump be making plans to withdraw from an anti-nuclear pact, the Nuclear Forces Treaty that has been in place since 1987? Why in the world would anyone in any political party in the United States support that and continue to vote for people that support this? It negates any good that might ever have been done by Trump's time in office. ANY GOOD which are words that are a giant concession on my part. People, you need to open your eyes and stop caring about winning winning winning and worry about the people surrounding Trump that think this might be a good idea. Start thinking about your children and your grandchildren, and children still unborn that could possibly live in a world where nuclear power fights are a constant threat. The one with the biggest nuclear tipped missiles wins. There is an old man, yes...an OLD man sitting in the White House with a bunch of other old men planning how they are going to continue to gain powers that will make them go down in history books as the biggest and the greatest. All the money in the world is not going to matter when this world is a pile of ash. Re-evaluate what is important to you if you can take a minute to do that. I have lived through times of cold war and nuclear threat. Are we going back in time?
I would love to be proven wrong about every single reservation, every single dislike, every single bit of disgust I have for Trump. There is not one person out there than can show me what is wrong about what I think. It is always about "my taxes", "my 401K". (wonder if they are checking those over the last couple of days), illegals are going to come in and take my ????, and so on. A dingo is going to take my baby,
Alan: "True believers" want to be lied to.
They need to be lied to.
Often, lies (i.e., "fake news," "alternative facts," "unfounded innuendo," "unsubstantiated assertions" and "in-your-face falsehood") are the only way to keep fragile faith alive.
If "true believers" spent more time "living their faith" rather than "proclaiming it," their belief would be stronger, perhaps even self-evident.
Back in the sixties, NPR ran a series of interviews with self-educated longshoreman-philosopher, Eric Hoffer.
Although Hoffer is no longer in the limelight, his insight - particularly into "mass movements" and the "blind faith" that propels them - is as sound as ever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Believer
Another component of America's recent decline into "siloed tribalism" is the "inconvenient truth" that conservatives frighten more easily than liberals. In consequence, they are autonomically predisposed to follow fearmongers whose preachments validate their self-terrified worldview.
Goosestepping to Armageddon.
Thank you Jesus!
After Sunday's gig at Hotel Indigo, John mentioned the landmark study demonstrating that conservatives frighten more easily than liberals. Here is a summary of that research: https://cassandralaments.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-sky-is-falling-conservatives-are.html
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