Wednesday, January 13, 2021

"American Conservatism And Aggressive Ignorance"

 

The Guardian: "John Oliver's Viral Video Is The Best Global Warming Debate You'll Ever See"

The Daily Show Interviews Republican Official Who Spills Beans On Deliberate Voter Suppression 
Masquerading As Prevention Of Voter Fraud
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/10/jon-stewart-asif-mandvi-investigates.html


The American Party: Know Nothing Nativism And Opposition To Catholic Immigration
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-american-party-no-nothing-nativism.html
Like the Pharisees, the Know Nothings are always with us.

Donald "Pus Gargle" Trump Blows Chunks. Just Makes S___ Up. Crowds Cheer

"There Are Two Ways Of Lying..." Denis De Rougemont And Donald Trump

Devious Donald And The Normalization Of Mendacity: "We're Going To Win The Latino Vote"



Aggressive Ignorance: America's National Pastime

Alan: American conservatives are not just ignorant but aggressively ignorant.

Proudly ignorant.


Boastfully ignorant. 


Evangelically ignorant


If God is conceived as Truth, the permanent posture of American conservatives is squatting over "his" face, shitting in his mouth, shouting "Down Truth! Down!"



Donald Trump has become the face of American "conservatism" and the ignorance that informs it.
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Updated Compendium Of Pax Posts About Donald Trump



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Isaac Asimov Explains Trump's Victory

Alan: From lack of intelligence, lack of learning, lack of insight, or plain ol' malice-malevolence, Trump and his cultists do not understand that the erosion of trust in constitutionally-mandated political institutions contributes mightily to the degradation -- if not the collapse -- of Democracy itself. 

20th century intellectual titan, Hannah Arendt -- who attended the Nuremberg Trials and coined the phrase "the banality of evil" -- has a lock-tight grip on this corrosive political process.

Here's how it unfolds...

Earlier Today, I Heard A Trump Supporter Say: "You Don't Know What To Believe." Once Trump Gets You To Throw Up Your Hands, You Won't Be Able To Determine What's True. Instead, You'll Be More Willing To Accept Lies As Truth. This Is Why Trump Lies So Much And Says "Who Knows? We'll See" So Often. Hannah Arendt Has The Details

How Trump Trashes The Underpinnings Of Truth-And-Faith-In-Shared-Values So That The Resulting Chaos Creates Cultists Conditioned To Believe Falsehood Over Truth: 20th Century Intellectual Titan, Hannah Arendt, Analyzes This Corrosive Mechanism



Carl Sagan Details The Big Bamboozle (With A Little Help From His Friends)

Compendium Of Best Pax Posts On Aggressive Ignorance: Proud, Boastful, Evangelical







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