Who Can Beat Trump?

[David Horn]

(09-13-2018, 07:59 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: I use similar terms and similar tactics as the blues. I counter forms of intimidation with an equal but different form of intimidation. If a blue can be a dickhead, I can be an asshole and society for the most part isn't going to have much of a problem with it. The blues don't seem to understand that they act like a bunch of arrogant dickheads who have developed a false sense of security that's associated the cozy blue worlds and cozy blue segments of American that they've created for themselves and their ideology. Outside of their cozy world, the blues are viewed fair game and open to extreme criticism, the use of extreme language and extreme terms and treatment that isn't viewed by most as being nice.

Actually, this is fair, though self-defeating.  Are people with expertise arrogant and condescending?  Of course! Go to any medical specialist and you'll see the same attitudes, and average people have the same attitude about them.  It's easy to overwhelm people if you have specialized knowledge, but don't expect it to be received gladly.  Then, there are the lefties with the same bad characteristics as Trump, who get the same rah-rah treatment among their followers -- even though they know they are liars and cheats. It's easier to hate liars and cheats you personally disfavor than those with whom you agree.  That's human nature … but it's also wrongheaded.  

I don't have a fix for this either.  We have moved into the post-honesty world, where options matter most, and non-facts have as much or more validity as the truth.  We've produced attitude adjustments in the past by suffering through calamities we thought were impossible or ones we believed would trend in a different way.  So barring a new GD or ACW, this may go on indefinitely.