Generational Dynamics World View

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(06-03-2020, 01:26 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: Well, I'm really not familiar with Nixon's Southern Strategy, so I decided to check it out.  I ended up linking to:

*** The myth of Nixon’s ‘Southern Strategy’ - Dinesh D'Souza https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/402...n-strategy

However, I'm not particularly "enamored of" Dinesh D'Souza as you claim.  I'm actually just vaguely aware of him.  He's one of dozens or perhaps hundreds of analysts across the political spectrum whose views I hear all the time on Fox News, BBC, Al-Jazeera, CNN, MS-NBC, RFI, and others.  And if I recall correctly, the few times I've seen him on TV, I haven't always agreed with everything he says.  Generational Dynamics successfully analyzes historical and current events and is right pretty much 100% of the time, while ideological right-wingers and left-wingers are usually wrong around 50% of the time.  So D'Souza is not particularly special to me, and certainly not always right, although your child-like brain is pleased to think he is.

D'Sousa is in Trump's circle, somewhere to the right of the right.  I am glad to see you changed your opinion on D'Souza.

(06-03-2020, 01:26 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: The reason that I linked to that document is because of its content.  It described the history of Nixon's Southern Strategy, gave all the relevant facts, and responded to your "obvious" claim, which "obviously" was ridiculous, as I explained above.

Of course not.  It came from an ideological source.  It contrasted completely with the main line history of which you seem ignorant.  I suggest you research a number of non ideological histories.

(06-03-2020, 01:26 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: As I've noted a while ago when I described how Leon Festinger's Cognitive Dissonance was completely deranging your mind.

You completely misunderstand cognitive dissonance.  You are obviously no psychiatrist, nor willing to check a term before you misuse it.  Cognitive dissonance is when you act against your beliefs, for example if you believe smoking is harmful but smoke anyway.  Your use of the term was completely inapproriate.

(06-03-2020, 01:26 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: You're like CNN, rejecting any view that doesn't match the Democratic Party talking points.

I don't consider this unusual.  Everyone has a bias.  They tend to reject theories that are well outside their bias.  Humans do not independently evaluate every problem, but use their shortcut world view to get quickly towards a solution.  The question is whether they have a scientific world view, that they make a point of checking the problem against reality.  One alternative is a political world view, of distorting their image of reality to commit to a political ideology.  This is why I will give honor to a few valid red points, as many as possible in fact, while you are consistently red.

(06-03-2020, 01:26 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: A couple of days ago, I wanted to get further information on the history of the KKK, and I came across an SPLC document:

*** Ku Klux Klan - A History of Racism and Violence
https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/...Racism.pdf

Now if I were like you, then I would automatically reject this document completely, since the SPLC is a far left hate group, one of the worst.  But instead I took the time to read through it and learn from it, and decided that despite the left-wing bias and selection of topics, it contains a lot of interesting historical information that fills in a number of blanks.  I can use that information to compare against other sources, and develop a complete non-ideological picture.  I would treat the D'Souza article the same way.  So that's how I operate, completely the opposite of how you operate.

I scanned through the documents referenced, and was of course not surprised by any of it.  I had studied my history.  Oh, some dates and specifics were new, but it was quite in line with the main line history of which I was quite aware.  It was not a revelation as is seemed to be to you.

(06-03-2020, 01:26 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: So I'd like to take this one step further and address the personal attacks that you have directed at me, because I found them to be particularly interesting personal attacks.

LOL.  Idiot.  Has it occurred to you that I did not begin the personal attacks?  But when you are dealing with a political ideologue, it becomes almost required to get their attention.

It is not so amazing that you consider yourself perfect in making predictions if you limit what you acknowledge to things compatible to your world view.  If you miss things like the Japanese cultural reboot after World War II, or the Civil Rights Movement, or the behavior of the KKK over the years, or governments being careful in what messages are sent to each other, or two of the three reasons for war, you are using your worldview to predict your worldview.  Not difficult, but not meaningful.  I will continue to monitor your 'predictions', and correct what your ideology. and ignorance of main line history prevents you from seeing.