RolStoppable said:
I've been thinking about what makes Trump so resistent to the takedowns he would totally deserve. Why is it that such a life-long idiot can get away with so much grift time and time again.
The answer I came up with is a psychological human self-defense mechanism when it comes to getting fooled. It's not a pleasant feeling to get played, but there are variations of it. Suppose you are falling prey to a high-level scheme, for example let's imagine something along the lines of what you see in the Ocean's Eleven movies. If the trickery is sophisticated, you would be much more inclined to admit that you've been fooled because you can easily imagine that most humans would get fooled too. Heck, you might even feel some sense of admiration for the people who made a fool of you because it was so well-planned and so well-executed.
But what if you fall for a scheme that is so basic that the slightest bit of thinking should have made it clear to you that you are facing fraud? It's not easy for people to admit how stupid they are/were, so there's a chance that they pretend that there's no fraud or that the culprit is much smarter than he really is. That's why even in the face of the current stock market crash you will still find people who will say that Trump has a plan despite all evidence being to the contrary. These people have followed Trump every step along the way, every time choosing that they haven't been duped by a simpleton and that's how they got where they are now, to a place where wrong is right and vice versa.
I've seen Mitch McConnell's name repeatedly on the list of defectors during the past two months. He has chosen to break the cycle, but what he's doing now can't make up for what he has done to the USA. It was him who purposefully left the door open for Trump to run for public office again. Additionally, he's not going for re-election, so one can easily argue that he is as selfish as before because now it's about saving his legacy for him, about being remembered as someone who wasn't Trump's bitch. But it's too little to late.
I've been having trouble to bring this post to an end because I've been without sleep for too long. I hope it's coherent, because at times it felt like a sentence or two are missing in the progression of my explanations. |
I am catching with some of the YouTube channels and I was watching this video at the same time while catching up with comments here, what you said I think perfectly applies:
Watching what many still view as sensible voices like Joe Rogan and Konstantin Kisin dancing around the craziness of all these free speech violations instead of just admitting they were wrong, I am embarrassed on their behalf, barf.
