Being a democratic society isint so great as it relays on voters to blame for drastic changes by a newly elected. Administration then like idiot trump voids treaties that's better then none goes against stability in the middle east and even home I believe a small part of the unstable world threats there are now and of course they werent on the wish list of voters
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I saw a story today that stated Twitter locked Trump's campaign account today for election interference.
@TeamTrump has 2.2 million followers on Twitter.
Back in September of 2018, this speech was given at the University of Illinois;
A self-made millionaire giving back - Harris Rosen, in Florida, USA, "adopted" a local community, Tangelo Park, offering free pre-school care to all children and scholarships to all graduates. Crime in the area fell by 50% and high school graduation has gone up steadily from 25% to 100%.
I don't think charity is good for people, because when it is easier to accept it than to go out and find work, the result is nearly always a parasitic mindset. This one, though - parents are freed up to go back to being productive, and youngsters are offered a reason to work hard and try for a future.
Probably the very last thing he'd want is to go into politics but THIS is where countries should look for leaders, or leaders should look for advice - those who help people to help themselves. JMO.
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Tell the donkeys that if their food lasts a long time
Fail to catch horses in the fields
Donkeys remain donkeys even if you wear them
Gold or feed them honey
Because the dog smells them
The dogs bark a lot until the morning
Because horses have diminished in our world
Neighborhood donkeys hid in the horses' saddles
And if a donkey appears dressed as a horse
He revealed his command by braying
People come to believe things that serve them in one way or another, and often disregard contradictory information because it doesn't reinforce the ideas that make them less anxious and feel more empowered. Below is a good explanation of an effect of which one only becomes aware as their education reaches college levels of understanding and above. I'd noticed it in myself: the way my perceptions of the world shifted with more and more perspective and knowledge, but I'd never put it into words except to say, "I know that I do not know what I do not know. Being mindful of this, I know a little better." Some people regard a shatter illusion a "bad thing". Not me. Bring them on. If I've an illusion, let it be shattered. This is not the attitude of people who still support trump. THEIR behavior is more typical of schizoid people with tight delusional systems that make them hateful towards anyone who, no matter how kindly, tries to show them facts that do not mesh well with their delusions.
Regarding the virus, obviously trump has his ideas about how to respond to the virus, and he is motivated by a variety of factors, many of which are inappropriate and displacing the energy he puts into what should be his number 1 concern: Reducing fatalities by supporting medical personnel and the folks who are keeping food, utility and supplies available to weather this biological storm. But his followers are ignoring the medical experts, infectious disease experts, etc and what follows is an explanation for why they are prone to doing this. Basically, it's a lack of perspective in which to judge the competence of their own perceptions/ideas created by a lack of knowledge/data. Just like we can't know how deadly the 2019 Corona virus is until we test a huge random sample for antibodies, these people lack the data set that would give them insight. Couple that with an unwillingness to entertain data contrary to their own theories/delusions and you get a MAGA and/or KAGA. Without further delay, the Dunning Kruger Effect:
Copied from Quora where David Blackstone wrote:
"There’s a psychological phenomenon called the Dunning Kruger effect, which explains why the ignorant believe themselves to be smarter than they actually are.
Knowledgeable people, or experts who know more about a subject than anyone else, are more likely to be aware of what they don’t know. They know the extent of the knowledge that can be learned on a subject and consequently are more likely to know how much they know relative to how much there IS to know.
Ignorant people are the opposite. They don’t know how much there is to know because they don’t know much to begin with. So they assume that their knowledge is on par with or better than an experts, purely because they don’t understand how much there truly is to learn.
Because of this phenomenon, knowledgeable people are more likely to underestimate their knowledge while less knowledgeable people are more likely to overestimate their knowledge.
In sum, smart people know how much they don’t know. Ignorant people are unaware of how much they don’t know, so they think they know more than they do."
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As to where this will lead us, I'm put in mind of what my Dad would shrug and say in such a situation: "Them that cannot hear have to feel".
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in creepy, sniffy, real racist Joe Biden, just a few thoughts on Democrat Party strategery. I won't bore, or indeed confuse some with the details. I'll merely list a few key words and phrases. For your edification. And for your thoughts.
VP choice. Evolution of VP choice. Multiple VP choices in sequence. VP possibly assuming helm, after the drop out. Or the hospitalization collapse out. ?Die out? Faint out, during debates. CA or NY Governors possibly also assuming the helm. Creative thinking on how to NOT have debates. Same for basement sequester of Uncle Joe, until November 3rd.
Lots more. Tata, alt leftie Syndromic friends, all.
Should the UK adopt a no haunting policy, and impose a complete ban on ghosts.
I say yes, outlaw them, and reclaim the night!
From the Huffington Post today;
In response to:
Democrats Just Flipped A Kentucky State Senate Seat The GOP Held For 25 Years
Travis Waldron, Brooklyn Wayland
HuffPostJune 30, 2020, 2:09 PM EDT
Democrats won a special election to fill a vacant Kentucky state Senate seat this week, flipping a district Republicans held for decades and signaling that the suburban shift that helped create a blue wave in 2018’s midterm elections may continue in 2020.
Dr. Karen Berg defeated Republican candidate Bill Ferko by 14 points to win the race to replace longtime GOP state Sen. Ernie Harris, who retired in April after holding the seat in suburban Louisville for 25 years. Berg narrowly lost to Harris in the 2018 general election, but will now hold the seat until that term expires in 2022. The win marked the first time Kentucky Democrats have flipped a state Senate seat since 2010.
Berg’s victory, which was announced Tuesday after officials finished counting absentee ballots in the June 23 election is the latest sign of trouble for the GOP in the suburbs of Kentucky’s largest city and may foreshadow further problems for the party in November as its suburban base continues to erode under President Donald Trump.
“Nationwide, the Republicans are in great danger of losing the upper-status professionals who used to side with them,” said Stephen Voss, a University of Kentucky political scientist who specializes in voter behavior and election patterns. “If that realignment in those voters becomes permanent, then the Republican Party is in trouble.”
Democratic gains in the suburbs of Louisville, Lexington and Cincinnati have already helped the party maintain a foothold in the Bluegrass State, where suburban swings powered Gov. Andy Beshear’s (D) victory over former GOP Gov. Matt Bevin a year ago. Nationwide, rapid shifts in the suburban electorate helped Democrats win back majority control of Congress and cut into Republican state legislative majorities in 2018, especially as the party turned to first-time candidates like Berg to win over areas that have long favored the GOP.
Berg was drafted into the 2018 race by Emerge Kentucky, a chapter of a national organization that recruits and trains women to run for office. The group has helped elect three dozen women in Kentucky, including seven state legislators who won races in 2018 and Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman, a former teacher who ran alongside Beshear last year.
The suburbs have become an ever-larger source of success for Democrats, especially as women have abandoned the GOP during the Trump years. Hillary Clinton carried the inner suburbs of cities nationwide in 2016, even as Trump’s success in rural areas pushed him to victory. In 2018, 38 of the 41 seats Democrats flipped on their way to the House majority were in suburban districts. The party won in places like Orange County, California, and central Oklahoma, where Rep. Kendra Horn shocked observers by winning a House seat the GOP had held for 44 years.
Suburban victories have also powered Democrats at the state legislative level, where they picked up 300 seats in 2018 and last year won control of the Virginia state legislature for the first time in more than two decades.
That success and Berg’s close loss two years ago helped turn Harris’ seat into a Democratic target once the veteran lawmaker retired in April. Berg focused her campaign on her experience as a physician and professor at the University of Louisville’s school of medicine, arguing that “healthcare is a right” and that Kentucky needed to make investments to improve public education, two issues that have taken center stage in recent Kentucky elections....
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