Trump Team Tries Harder And Harder To Hide What They Will Actually Do During Trump 2.0
Trump Team Tries Harder And Harder To Hide What They Will Actually Do During Trump 2.0
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Trump Team Tries Harder And Harder To Hide What They Will Actually Do During Trump 2.0
I am very curious to know whether this strategy will work on anyone
Like is there anyone who heard about Project 2025 and went “oh no!”, but then Trump said “oh we weren’t serious, we didn’t mean that, IDK even who these guys are” and then they said “oh phew okay back to not voting, I’m sure it’s fine”
It is hard for me to get inside the head of the average American voter so I won’t say that is impossible but it seems pretty unlikely
We're talking about people that believe Joe Biden has "open border" policies and that Democrats are performing abortions after birth.
I'd assume they believe every word.
Yeah, that’s a good point. I wasn’t even thinking in terms of conservatives because I sort of looked at them as a lost cause and who knows what they’re gonna do; I was looking at the contest as where things are going to shake out between “willing to vote” against “nah it’s not important enough to vote what’s the worst that could happen”. But yeah there probably is a contingent of Republican voters who think what Trump says about it is relevant and believable.
They don’t actually believe it, in the sense that people usually mean when they say that. The pathology that’s going on may sort of tickle some of the same pathways that provide the “what exists in reality” context for the rest of the brain to make decisions, but mostly what they mean when they’re saying it out loud to other people is simply that it it were true, it would help their team. If you watch the way they behave, it’s very clear that it’s the second thing and not the first.
The development of that pathway and feedback loop between the part of the brain that believes things, and the part of the brain that strategizes what would hurt the Democrats if it were true, is horrifyingly dangerous. It’s at the root of some of the worst and largest-scale atrocities of the 20th century. And now, there’s a whole network of conservative media in the US that can hook in with organized religion and they can work together to explicitly strengthen it, consistently and forcefully, every single day.
If they just “believed” in in the sense that they had objectively arrived at the conclusion that it were true, it wouldn’t be anywhere near as dangerous as the somewhat more subtle thing which is actually what’s going on.
I would think the sheer fact conservatives WROTE IT DOWN AND PUT IT ONLINE would be enough to solidify their intentions to people. But, I can’t imagine voting for a criminal or a rapist, so who knows what the truly brainwashed will do.
I'm still baffled how the creators of that site haven't been arrested. It's clearly conspiracy to commit treason or insurrection and they've taken steps to commit the crime.
20% of voters will vote for ANYTHING. You will always find at least 20% of people who will support literally any crazy shit you can think up.
Pretty cramped space, smells of rotten onions
Yes absolutely. There's a huge segment of the population that doesn't want a fascist dictator but wants to be convinced Trump is having to sidestep fringe groups that are fascist. These people want to buy into the fear culture and want their feeling of privilege restored (see: persecute minorities), but don't want to appear fascist so they don't lose their social connections like friends and family ever talking to them again.
But if Trump is elected they will shrug their shoulders while the rest of the country alternatingly rejoices and cries out in despair.
Fence-sitters, centrists, and others not publicly decrying Trump are just embarrassed Trump supporters.
A whole lot of dumbasses out there and a LOT of shills in the "liberal media". Remember how many times they waited breathlessly on how donnie was going to "pivot" to being a decent human being and a normal President?
Instead of sounding the alarm on this at every opportunity, they'll endlessly discuss how old Biden is.
I don't know if other people find this as chilling as I do, because it doesn't seem all that alarming on the surface. But I think this is an extremely accurate and frightening diagnosis of why so many people seem so weirdly uninterested in saying anything about Trump's incredibly major crimes.
They've mentally realized that he has no plans to change his behavior, and it's hard to take seriously the idea that anyone will hold him to account. So why bother saying anything against him? What difference would it make?
The more you think about it, the worse it gets.
Individuals can be smart. But, a large group is always mediocre, an average. Small groups are the sweet spot for greatness.
It's human nature to overestimate that which favors us. We each overestimate how smart we are and the how smart the group is. Much in human history is based on not caring about the odds. Even Hans Solo doesn't want to know.
In the situation you present, very shallow propaganda is quite effective if the target can be saturated with it. Another example, humans enjoy simplicity. A false dichotomy can be maintained for millennia: It's current governance or worst fears manifest.
I regurgitated four basic books and a movie reference. Read these ones:
In The Engineering of Consent, 1947, Bernays described the theory of modern propaganda developed and implemented primarily by Nazi Germany. In Manufacturing Consent, 1988, Herman and Chomsky describe how the principles have been implemented in US mass media for economic control.
Since 1988 we've had mass computing, the internet, and now applications of AI. The history and structure will give lived experiences roots and facilitate communication.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it."
Science educators continually tell us that distances of millions or billions of miles are incomprehensible by human minds. If that's true, then a nation of millions or billions of people is even more incomprehensible, and we need to reduce the size of our groups before things will start making sense again.
Extremely uniformed and goes off feeling of candidate.