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Trump’s Favorability - (part of my Trump Persuasion series)

Posted December 2nd, 2015 @ 8:15am in #Trump

Business Insider reports that Trump’s favorability rating among Republican voters was 23% before he announced his candidacy.

In July it had climbed to 59%.

Today it is 69%. That means it tripled this year.

As the article notes, this is surprising because Trump has been a known quantity for decades, and people generally don’t change their minds about known quantities to such a degree.

In other words, something Trump is doing or saying – and the public are not quite sure what – is changing people’s minds.

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That Time the United States Government Was Replaced and No One Noticed

Posted December 1st, 2015 @ 8:48am in #Trump

Do you remember the time when the government of the United States was replaced with a different system and no one even noticed?

Probably not. I didn’t notice until yesterday.

Anyway, the old Constitution is gone, and in its place we have social media. The so-called “government” still has budgets and politicians and processes. But at this point in history they just do what social media tells them. They have to. Doing otherwise means failure and job loss.

When the Constitution was designed, communication among citizens was limited. We needed to elect smart leaders who would ride their horses to Washington DC and vote for our interests. The system was brilliant, and served the country well.

But now we have the Internet. Today, social media decides what is “right” and politicians follow their lead. That seems to be working. Don’t believe me?

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Measuring the Disenfranchised

Posted November 30th, 2015 @ 5:39pm

There are still some things I don’t know how to Google. For example, I’d like to know which political groups are getting the LEAST of what they are demanding.

Obviously poor people get screwed under every scenario. But what about Latinos, African-Americans, LGBT folks, seniors, white males, and women? How are each of those groups doing in terms of getting what their majority wants in the political realm?

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How Trump Can Solve Immigration

Posted November 29th, 2015 @ 9:57am in #trump

Donald Trump is in hot water lately for treating a writer with a joint disease the same way he treats everyone else. Most people, including me, felt Trump’s behavior was appalling. If Trump shakes off that controversy and goes on to win the presidency, he has some big campaign promises to keep about immigration. 

Let’s talk about that.

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Trump Trouble Report

Posted November 26th, 2015 @ 11:39am in #Trump

According to the press, Donald Trump had a bad week. If the game we are playing is two-dimensional politics, they are 100% right.

But what if the game is three-dimensional politics? The third dimension is emotion and persuasion, not reason. Let’s see how Trump did in the third dimension.

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Worst Social Justice Organizer Ever

Posted November 26th, 2015 @ 10:15am

If you plan to organize an online protest, maybe you should not include proof you are wrong about everything in your opening message. 

Don’t we usually call the person who initiates the insults the fight-picker? Or does it work differently in other parts of the country?

Is the United States a Patriarchy or a Matriarchy? (Part 2)

Posted November 25th, 2015 @ 11:26am in #gender

Read Part 1, a prior post, before reading this.

The claim we explored yesterday is that there are substantially more women voters than men, and therefore women have more political power – in that limited sense – than men. (We’ll discuss the other forms of power later.)

Many of you had objections to the preliminary verdict. I will address your objections here and render an updated verdict. (All verdicts in the Rationality Engine are subject to change. Keep that in mind.)

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Is the United States a Patriarchy or a Matriarchy? (Part 1)

Posted November 24th, 2015 @ 8:23am in #gender #politics #voting

Today we start the Rationality Engine (invented in this blog) to see if the process can settle for us the question of whether the United States is a patriarchy or a matriarchy. 

Here we stipulate that the country has been a patriarchy from its founding until modern times. The claim we are testing is that the country has recently transformed from a patriarchy to a matriarchy.

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Now that I have your attention…

Posted November 23rd, 2015 @ 11:51am

As expected, I got all the bottom-feeder traffic from Gawker and the rest of the Outragist sewer system streaming over to this blog today. So I think we’re ready for tomorrow’s topic, which will be the start of the Rationality Engine process to explore whether the United States is still a patriarchy or whether it has morphed into a matriarchy that pretends to be a patriarchy.

I’ve been asked to explain my views. And so I will, with your help.

And you thought Thanksgiving would be boring.

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How to Beat ISIS with a Hoax

Posted November 23rd, 2015 @ 8:25am in #isis #psyops #cia #hypnosis #influence

How do you kill the ideas that motivate ISIS?

You can’t do it with reason. You can’t do it with force alone. But you might be able to do it with a hoax. I’ll explain.

In a prior post I explained why ridiculous rumors travel faster than truth, and the more ridiculous, the better. The simple explanation is that truth is usually boring. If you want people to be interested, you need a big lie. You need something so wrong that people think it must be right. The wrongness – the thing that makes the rumor clearly untrue – is the same thing that drives its telling and retelling. We are drawn to the wrongness of it.

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