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I do think he's pretty wrong in March of 2019, but he's also doing exactly what Trump does, repeating false or misleading statements until they become accepted.
After a while, some people get conditioned, not unlike a dog, to do what he wants, believe what he says.
But while other people may react negatively, scream about his lies and the danger that he and his loyalists represent, it still serves him, because he can rally his pack to fight them.
I know which kind of dog I am, but what I don't know is what happens when the Hyenas come for the entire pack's kill and we're fighting amongst ourselves.
Not am I sure why the leader seems to be so nice to hyenas and why he never seems quite as hungry as the rest of us after they run off with a carcass.
After a while, some people get conditioned, not unlike a dog, to do what he wants, believe what he says.
But while other people may react negatively, scream about his lies and the danger that he and his loyalists represent, it still serves him, because he can rally his pack to fight them.
I know which kind of dog I am, but what I don't know is what happens when the Hyenas come for the entire pack's kill and we're fighting amongst ourselves.
Not am I sure why the leader seems to be so nice to hyenas and why he never seems quite as hungry as the rest of us after they run off with a carcass.
windinhishair · 61-69, M
@MistyCee His Pavlovian loyalists accept his lies and do his bidding. It really is a conditioning process. I do have to give Trump credit for taking advantage of the conditioning that has been going on for almost 30 years with Fox/Limbaugh/Jones/Hannity, etc. No one has done a better job of converting them into tools for his use.
@windinhishair He really has taken what Gingrich started to a whole new level in terms of polarizing politics.
I just posted more about this in a comment somewhere else, but Trump has taken Gingrich style politics, added a good measure of authoritarian propaganda, pyschology, and his own personal touch and made a truly aromatic, pretty much toxic stew.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich
I just posted more about this in a comment somewhere else, but Trump has taken Gingrich style politics, added a good measure of authoritarian propaganda, pyschology, and his own personal touch and made a truly aromatic, pretty much toxic stew.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich
windinhishair · 61-69, M
@MistyCee I have to agree that much of this can be traced directly to Gingrich. Remember the Contract On America? The GOP Plan to create a White Utopia in the early 1990s. Gingrich and Pat Buchanan and others were involved in its creation. If you want to watch a chilling historical moment, watch Buchanan's speech at the 1992 GOP Convention. Conservatives were goose stepping and Sieg Heiling all over the country. And many of them haven't stopped to this day.
@windinhishair I was still in school in '92 and missed that one, but I'll look for it either on YouTube or maybe better on Netflix. Nixon is interesting, but I think too far removed from today's politics and the Trump/Nixon parallels people draw seem really overdone.
windinhishair · 61-69, M
@MistyCee Nixon was a criminal in the White House, and so is Trump, but they really aren't comparable in other ways. Nixon was the first president when many Americans realized that the government couldn't be trusted to tell the truth. Now we aren't so naive--we know Trump is lying when his lips move.
You'll see lots of similarities between Buchanan's 1992 speech and today's cultural divide, and it will remind you that what we see now isn't new--it has been there a long time and is getting worse.
You'll see lots of similarities between Buchanan's 1992 speech and today's cultural divide, and it will remind you that what we see now isn't new--it has been there a long time and is getting worse.
@windinhishair I will.