I copied the above link for those who aren't familiar and might be interested. Schellenberger is an unfortunate example of a creep into the paranoid mindset, despite the fact that much of what he says is correct. But he has tumbled into a one-sided hysteria that doesn't even allow him to understand the basics of t…
I copied the above link for those who aren't familiar and might be interested. Schellenberger is an unfortunate example of a creep into the paranoid mindset, despite the fact that much of what he says is correct. But he has tumbled into a one-sided hysteria that doesn't even allow him to understand the basics of the theory he's about to publish a book about, as it applies to the totalitarianism of the American Right. Lobaczewski's concept of pathocracy describes how the totalitarian fish stinks from the top, starting with the psychopathy of the political leader, which is then replicated endlessly throughout the political organism at the lower levels. The principal threat we face is indeed this political expression of psychopathy, but mainly in the person of Donald Trump, his actual criminality, and his egregious lies, lies that have become gospel for perhaps a third of the population. Recall how one honest, competent conservative after another threw in the towel because they couldn't stand the psychopathy and how the incompetent and the psychopaths gradually replaced them, exactly as described by Lobaczewski. While it is true that woke ideology is based on lies, too, there is no honest equivalency between the two political phenomena. Trump means the actual, planned end of the rule of law. Schellenberger, in the midst of making one valid point after another, has nevertheless lost his marbles, and it is because, like most everyone else, he can't live without a tribe. But if he thinks people like Steve Pinker are members of that tribe, he's very much mistaken.
So, we have an essay about paranoia in American politics, and then, without any irony, we launch into a claim that "Trump means the actual, planned end of the rule of law". Somehow, he couldn't get it done in his first term?
And then we have the blatant censorship on the left? All in the name of stopping "Russian disinformation".
Joe McCarthy would be put to shame by the blacklisting (aka cancel culture) ability of the left.
Walk and chew gum. I'm on this forum partly because I know how insane the illiberal Left is. I don't need to be reminded of that. But the crimes and lies of Donald Trump are not a paranoid invention. They're crimes and lies. People like Liz Cheney, Steve Schmidt, John Bolton etc etc are not a bunch of paranoiacs. They're serious people who tell it like it is. But somehow you and 90% of Republicans prefer the orange Kool Aid, just like liberals need to call poor people people of color instead. Or stand with Hamas, or whatever the hell they do. Who gives a shit what they do? "It's not about who they are, it's about who we are". Remember who said that? John McCain, a true American patriot, that's the person on who's grave Trump likes to piss. How do you not understand the depravity that shows?
Remember how Kissinger talked about "serious people"? He was a fucking war criminal. Then again, there ARE serious people and then there's clowns and psychopaths. Cheney and Bolton are serious people. I disagree with them on things, but they do have principles. You and your gang don't.
Yes, we do. It's imperfect and it's being tampered with by leftists at the level of the ordinary criminal but those excesses are beginning to recede. At the level of state power, we certainly have problems but we don't yet have the type of autocracy in which the rule of law doesn't apply to the President and his cronies. I expect that to change when Trump gets elected.
Biden is an addled narcissist but not a psychopath with a lengthy record of financial and sexual crimes and an insurrection under his belt, and he won't be prosecuted for blowing up the Nordstream gas pipeline, which is the one crime he likely conspired to commit that I'm aware of, and you understand why not.
https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-american-politics/
I copied the above link for those who aren't familiar and might be interested. Schellenberger is an unfortunate example of a creep into the paranoid mindset, despite the fact that much of what he says is correct. But he has tumbled into a one-sided hysteria that doesn't even allow him to understand the basics of the theory he's about to publish a book about, as it applies to the totalitarianism of the American Right. Lobaczewski's concept of pathocracy describes how the totalitarian fish stinks from the top, starting with the psychopathy of the political leader, which is then replicated endlessly throughout the political organism at the lower levels. The principal threat we face is indeed this political expression of psychopathy, but mainly in the person of Donald Trump, his actual criminality, and his egregious lies, lies that have become gospel for perhaps a third of the population. Recall how one honest, competent conservative after another threw in the towel because they couldn't stand the psychopathy and how the incompetent and the psychopaths gradually replaced them, exactly as described by Lobaczewski. While it is true that woke ideology is based on lies, too, there is no honest equivalency between the two political phenomena. Trump means the actual, planned end of the rule of law. Schellenberger, in the midst of making one valid point after another, has nevertheless lost his marbles, and it is because, like most everyone else, he can't live without a tribe. But if he thinks people like Steve Pinker are members of that tribe, he's very much mistaken.
So, we have an essay about paranoia in American politics, and then, without any irony, we launch into a claim that "Trump means the actual, planned end of the rule of law". Somehow, he couldn't get it done in his first term?
And then we have the blatant censorship on the left? All in the name of stopping "Russian disinformation".
Joe McCarthy would be put to shame by the blacklisting (aka cancel culture) ability of the left.
Walk and chew gum. I'm on this forum partly because I know how insane the illiberal Left is. I don't need to be reminded of that. But the crimes and lies of Donald Trump are not a paranoid invention. They're crimes and lies. People like Liz Cheney, Steve Schmidt, John Bolton etc etc are not a bunch of paranoiacs. They're serious people who tell it like it is. But somehow you and 90% of Republicans prefer the orange Kool Aid, just like liberals need to call poor people people of color instead. Or stand with Hamas, or whatever the hell they do. Who gives a shit what they do? "It's not about who they are, it's about who we are". Remember who said that? John McCain, a true American patriot, that's the person on who's grave Trump likes to piss. How do you not understand the depravity that shows?
The fact you state Liz Cheney and John Bolton as 'good guys' is peak insanity! I'm sure you LOVED H Kissinger!
Remember how Kissinger talked about "serious people"? He was a fucking war criminal. Then again, there ARE serious people and then there's clowns and psychopaths. Cheney and Bolton are serious people. I disagree with them on things, but they do have principles. You and your gang don't.
What defines 'serious ppl'? The ones responsible for getting here?
If the path you have taken has led you to here...of what good is the path?
DJT, for all his flaws, at least APPEARS as something of an alternative. I dunno...
Spare me the TDS
Do we have the rule of law now?
No, we have Law by Rule.
Yes, we do. It's imperfect and it's being tampered with by leftists at the level of the ordinary criminal but those excesses are beginning to recede. At the level of state power, we certainly have problems but we don't yet have the type of autocracy in which the rule of law doesn't apply to the President and his cronies. I expect that to change when Trump gets elected.
Do you mean the rule of law is now applied even to our current President? Do you mean the rule of law was applied to Hillary Clinton?
Biden is an addled narcissist but not a psychopath with a lengthy record of financial and sexual crimes and an insurrection under his belt, and he won't be prosecuted for blowing up the Nordstream gas pipeline, which is the one crime he likely conspired to commit that I'm aware of, and you understand why not.
Ukraine, Romania, Kazakhstan, China and Hunter? Clinton foundation? Hillary Clinton cattle futures? Epstein clients?
And talking about the law: who was indicted with a charge of "insurrection"?