Alan: Here is where American conservatives ran off the rails.
"There are two ways of lying, as there are two ways of deceiving customers. If the scale registers 15 ounces, you can say: 'It's a pound.' Your lie will remain relative to an invariable measure of the true. If customers check it, they can see that they are being robbed, and you know by how much you are robbing them: a truth remains as a judge between you. But if the demon induces you to tamper with the scale itself, it is the criterion of the true which is denatured, there is no longer any possible control. And little by little you will forget that you are cheating."
Denis de Rougemont
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-
"The New (Ab)Normal: Flood Every Media Platform With A Fire Hose Of Falsehood... And The Need For A New Journalistic Method"
Journalists Should Be In "Emergency" Mode: Journalistic Method Needs To Be Redefined To Deal With Trump's Re-Definition Of Bullshit As Normalcy
"On The Media"
https://www.wnycstudios.org/
https://www.wnycstudios.org/
"The Decisive Distinction Between People Who Can Think And Those Who Can't"
The Death Of Epistemology: Update
How Do We Know What We Think We Know? "Sound Thinking Is An Acquired Skill, Seldom Possessed By Trump Followers"
(Trump Followers Confuse Opinionization With Thinking. In Fact, They Are Too Stupid To Know They're Stupid.)
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Pat Buchanan, The Republican Presidential Candidate And Living American Who Has Served Longest As Senior White House Official, Says Republicans Are In It For "Power Only" And "To Hell With Principles"
"Daniel Webster Prompts A Review Of Conspiracism And Its Destructive Role In American Politics"
"Whom The Gods Would Destroy, They First Make Mad"
"Truth Infuriates People Whose Lives Are Lie"
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"Unless Truth Is Richly Contextualized, It Is Likely That Uneducated, Ideologically-Driven People (Who Never Learned How To Think In Context), Will Use Fragmented Shards Of Truths To Tell Colossal Lies"
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"How Conservatives Use Decontextualized Shards Of Truth To Tell BIG Lies"
At bedrock, "Christian" "conservatives" (who are neither) are commited to the exclusion of all n'er-do-wells, especially "the undeserving poor."
How Piety And Devotion-To-God Distract People From The Necessary Work Of Kindness
"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice. The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization. We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal. Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good. The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”
"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton
Pat Buchanan, The Republican Presidential Candidate And Living American Who Has Served Longest As Senior White House Official, Says Republicans Are In It For "Power Only" And "To Hell With Principles"
"Trump Is A Traitor By Virtue Of Normalizing Falsehood And Teaching Americans To Do The Same"
"Trump Lies Shamelessly, Compulsively, Continuously... And His Followers Suck The Sludge"
"Truth Infuriates People Whose Lives Are Lie"
"Unless Truth Is Richly Contextualized, It Is Likely That Uneducated, Ideologically-Driven People (Who Never Learned How To Think In Context), Will Use Fragmented Shards Of Truths To Tell Colossal Lies"
"How Conservatives Use Decontextualized Shards Of Truth To Tell BIG Lies"
"Donald Trump's Identity Revealed"
"Compendium: Trump And His Minions Lie-And-Mislead More Easily Than They Metabolize, With A Special Guest Appearance By Master Bull-Shitter, Kayleigh McEnany"
"Pardon Him, Theodotus; He Is A Barbarian And Thinks That The Customs Of His Tribe And Island Are The Laws Of Nature." George Bernard Shaw On The Nature Of Personal Stupidity And Social Stupefaction
Compendium Of Trump Videos That Reveal His Arrogance, Inhumanity, Stupidity And Cruelty
"Family Separation And The Satanic Cruelty Of Most Republicans"
"The Hard, Central Truth Of Contemporary Conservatism"
Why "Absolutists" Prefer To See "Relativists" Dead... Whereas "Relativists" Prefer That "Absolutists" Just Mind Their Own Business
The Insuperable Stupidity-Perversity-Ignorance Of Diehard Trump Supporters
It Has Come To This. How Do We Tell The Truth To 40% Of Americans?
A God's Eye View Of Donald Trump
Seriously.
The guy is a shit-head.
20th Century Intellectual Titan, Hannah Arendt
(who coined the phrase, "The Banality Of Evil".
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 vise-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-
Bill Maher Describes Addlepated Trumpism As It Is. Hannah Arendt Explains "How" Trumpism Came Into Being
Compendium Of Best Hannah Arendt Posts
Alan: During my 1950s' childhood, any weirdo-relative living in an in-law apartment would have become a candidate for "insane asylum committal" as soon as s/he started spewing the kind of lunatic ideation that consumes Trump Cult, a coven of crazies who subscribe to QAnon, a new secular religion with its own messiah (i.e., Donald Trump) and its own resurrection (i.e., John Kennedy Jr. is not dead).
And that's just the beginning.
Tom Hanks, Oprah Winfrey and Hillary Clinton are members of a vast Hollywood (and Democratic Party) cabal that operates a massive sex slave trade which also kills children, cannibalizing them in Satanic blood rituals.
If you've got the stomach, you can learn more about this epochal normalization-of-insanity at:
QAnon and Fox News are "Un-Reality TV"
"There Is Neither Nobility, Nor Kindness, Nor Uplift In Trump's America"
https://newsfrombarbaria.
https://newsfrombarbaria.
Compendium Of Trump Videos That Reveal His Arrogance, Inhumanity, Stupidity And Cruelty
"Cruelty Is The Point": An Update On Donald Trump And His White "Christian" Base
https://newsfrombarbaria.
https://newsfrombarbaria.
Cruelty And Retaliation: Who Comes To Mind?
https://newsfrombarbaria.
https://newsfrombarbaria.
Compendium Of Best "Pax-Barbaria" Posts About Trump-Cult Cruelty
https://newsfrombarbaria.
https://newsfrombarbaria.
"The Cruelty Was The Point: The Trump Administration's Cruel Treatment Of Migrant Families Was Intentional And Calculated," Washington Post
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https://newsfrombarbaria.
"Compendium Of Best Pax Posts On Trump, Toxic Christianity And Cruelty As A Moral Obligation"
Lies As The Newly-Fabricated Gold Standard For "Truth"
https://newsfrombarbaria.
Lies As The Newly-Fabricated Gold Standard For "Truth"
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"The Thinking Housewife", A Traditionalist Catholic: "We Can Be Pretty Sure That Many Good People Are Roasting In Hell" - "Liberalism Is Satanic Rebellion Against God?"
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