▲ | anon291 3 days ago | |||||||
> People are surprised over Trump, because of what it applies[do you mean implies?] about conservative peoples hypocrisy. Technocrats talk about hypocrits. Lovers of the humanities talk about people. People don't operate on principles. They operate on human emotion, which is a very real force. It is no less real than facts, figure, logic, or rationality. Trump's shooting, his McDonald's stunt, his garbage vest/truck, and his ability to exude his brand are actual skills, and signs of a different kind of intelligence. Until people get that, they will be perpetually confused. A lot of pollsters around the issue of the economy for example threw their hands in the air this election. The numbers looked good, they said, so how come people feel that it's not working? They blamed 'the vibe'. But 'the vibe' is a very real force, that one must contend with when you study human behavior and emotion. The problem is that -- instead of studying literature, philosophy, religion, art, music, dance, etc, i.e., the real humanities -- the 'humanities' PhDs, the sociologists, the pollsters, etc, all studied statistics for human management essentially. We've lost so much by not focusing on the actual humanities > Moderate republicans cant admit it either to themselves. Moderate republicans -- if you mean the lincoln project crowd -- are the worst perpetrators of the problems addressed in the article > But, we want to believe in good of the massive amount of people. We do not want to believe that conservative Christians will do anything just to get control over women back. Or that they actually want to destroy the democracy. oof... read and believe too much of the Ivy League output I see. You know it's a grift for them too right? Just look at President Biden (a graduate of the Ivies if I'm not mistaken) being all smiles after the man he called Hitler came to the white house to take over. | ||||||||
▲ | MandieD 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
“President Biden (a graduate of the Ivies if I'm not mistaken)” You’re quite mistaken there: he did his undergrad at the very public University of Delaware, and went to law school at private but definitely not Ivy League Syracuse. | ||||||||
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▲ | watwut 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
Sure, but I read and listened A LOT about principles from christians, conservatives and republicans. And they mock everybody elses emotions, except their own which are super important. Yes emotions are real force. I am glad we are admiting it, because god, the conservatives LOVE to pretend they are being rational when they are ... not. | ||||||||
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