2016 Postmortem
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I forced myself to watch Donald Trumps acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, not because I am a masochist, but because I believe that you must confront and understand evil if you are to be successful in defeating it. I will admit that I had to turn the volume down a bit; I couldnt stand The Donald shouting at me as he robotically read his lines, and maybe I did a little multi-tasking. However, I did watch the entire hour and 15 minutes of the most dreary and depressing speech I have ever seen or heard. There were no rays of hope to break up the doom and gloom, no but we are Americans and we have overcome far worse. There on only the Trump pledge to fix everything that is wrong with this country, and that inspired no hope what so ever.
Hopefully those suffering from severe depression had enough sense to not watch the speech; apparently they didnt because I heard nothing of the suicide rate spiking Thursday night. Or perhaps, like me, they couldnt reconcile what is happening in their lives with the situation that Donald Trump was describing.
As Trump droned on indeterminately with statistic after depressing statistic I started recognizing familiar topics, subjects I knew something about. I found myself mumbling under my breath again and again, Wait a minute, that cant be right And then, That SOB is lying to the American public while giving the most important speech of his life. However, looking back, given the way he has handled his entire campaign, I dont know why I should have been the least bit surprised.
After the speech I started researching public records for the points from Trumps speech that I could remember. I found that while some his statements might have been technically true, if you closed one eye and held your mouth just right, they were misleading a hell. They were based on information cherry picked to present the data in the most damning light possible. The Trump campaign staff members who wrote that speech made those in the Bush administration who distorted the facts to convince the country to go to war in Iraq look like amateurs.
To me this is the worst kind of lie. For instance, to manufacture that kind of lie you have to sort through reams of data which indicates that violent crime in this country has been decreasing for many years in order to find that kernel of information which, when taken out of context, seems to indicate that violent crime is instead increasing, and that we should be very afraid.
In another misrepresentation of the facts, Trump tried to convince us ......
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etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/07/trump-and-sociopathy/491966/
This week, the co-author of Donald Trumps autobiography said in The New Yorker that if he were writing The Art of the Deal today, it would be a very different book with a very different title: The Sociopath.
To title a persons life story with that label is a serious accusation, and one worth considering. The stakes are high. Tony Schwartz, the writer of the best-selling book, said that he genuinely believe[s] that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes, there is an excellent possibility it will lead to the end of civilization. In that light, Schwartz said he feels deep remorse at having put lipstick on a pig.
duncang
(1,907 posts)Just a hint at what he would do with real power.
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)The President did a fantastic job of smacking down all of his false crime statistics yesterday. I look forward to a lot more of that next week.
Her Sister
(6,444 posts)Jared Yates Sexton
?@JYSexton
If you think this snake can't win or wouldn't be dangerous because he's a joke you need to sit down and look at this thing in its face.
https://twitter.com/JYSexton/status/756327191353389056
Her Sister
(6,444 posts)We need to keep doing that!
CajunBlazer
(5,648 posts)He is a con man personified.