tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448048397545596969.post6605487522389004986..comments2023-10-02T07:36:44.813-07:00Comments on Reading Bumps and Entrails: Human Irrationality 102: The Trump PhenomenonStewart Hasehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09321532593663984156noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448048397545596969.post-38223983161060425292016-04-13T05:35:09.292-07:002016-04-13T05:35:09.292-07:00Hope you read some of his comments re his term as ...Hope you read some of his comments re his term as Cilician governor. <br /><br />I couldn't believe it when I read some of it, everything but nothing has changed in at least two thousand years.<br /><br />PW.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448048397545596969.post-35064112051025349512016-04-13T03:55:53.090-07:002016-04-13T03:55:53.090-07:00Thanks Paul. I've just finished reading a tril...Thanks Paul. I've just finished reading a trilogy of books by Robert Harris on the life of Cicero and Rome when the 'democratic' republic was gradually torn apart by Caeser and others such as Pompey. There are remarkable similarities. The unrestrained power of oligarchs. Stewart Hasehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09321532593663984156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448048397545596969.post-59091318678612946902016-04-12T12:28:03.960-07:002016-04-12T12:28:03.960-07:00Phew!! For a moment I thought you would be anti Do...Phew!! For a moment I thought you would be anti Donald, one of the scowly bleeding hearts who stalk about the place muttering about personality disorders when it comes to the Donald.<br /><br /> You can see by the road-kill stoat-pelt he wears on his head that he is as sane as this writer, Woooohooo!!!!!<br /> <br />Actually, it is good piece and predicted with unerring accuracy the stumbles that have had his campaign threatening to run off the rails since its writing.<br /><br /> In some ways the most pitiful statesiders are the Tea Party types from the interior agricultural states- hayseeds- with their militias and megachurches.<br /><br /> They are exploited and well, brainwashed. They are like our Hansonists, deeply alienated and in denial as to (need for) change internal and external and their adjustment to it. <br /><br />I sympathise with their victims and also sympathise with them, change can be difficult and they are truly commodified victims as well; well ill-equipped by the system to cope with change and resemble the Plebs of Rome, dupes who served a purpose in legitimising tha toligarchy.<br /><br />They need the truth, even a bit of reassurance. <br /><br />They don't need the non-stop urgings and cognitive massagings and manipulations of scum like Rush Limbaugh and neolib Murdoch or demented idiots like Ted Robertson, Michele Bachman and Sarah Palin, who ignore issues like the consequences of grubby market economics in a de-industrialising society.<br /><br /> But they are a menace to everyone, including themselves and the Confederacy ideology seems so entrenched as to defy removal in this "mediated" era.<br /><br /> It's confronting to think that the future of the 'States and the world is in the hands of these stressed, angry, irrational, poorly educated and ill informed people. US friends of my acquaintance abhor this politics.<br /><br />Paul Walter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448048397545596969.post-14748669784893274362016-04-09T00:03:44.613-07:002016-04-09T00:03:44.613-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Herry Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06336899634205525690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448048397545596969.post-22842811856415903682016-04-02T13:03:08.736-07:002016-04-02T13:03:08.736-07:00Thanks Steve. I am hoping that the US citizenry wi...Thanks Steve. I am hoping that the US citizenry will come to its senses but then again.............Stewart Hasehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09321532593663984156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6448048397545596969.post-28100971207501212412016-04-02T05:35:22.301-07:002016-04-02T05:35:22.301-07:00Excellent article Stew. Nailed a very broad range ...Excellent article Stew. Nailed a very broad range of contributing factors (and layers). <br />Working with a lot of USA folks last year, there did seem to be a few with similar (collective) perspectives; a disdain for Obama, liked Trump, liked guns, didn't believe in climate change, dedicated to their religion etc. These particular individuals seemed to harbor a lot of the traits you mentioned in your article. To be fair, and to not offend our US friends, these were a small bunch...<br /><br />As I mentioned to someone a few days ago; "Im not a religious man but the ani-christ may have indeed arrived"Steve Thomasnoreply@blogger.com