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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrumpy's fanboys are flailing for a fascist dictatorship. But it doesn't matter to them.
They want Trumpy to lead them to WHITENESS, unfettered by any Constitution or law. They see Trumpy as the strong leader who can crash through the Constitution and all of the laws supporting it. They see a revolution driven by rage.
"Facts matter"? Not so much. What matters to them is white America, where caucasians of a distinct variety dominate the cultural and economic landscape. The ugly side of their dream is that their definition of nonwhite America means that Semites (who are, by definition, caucasian), Hispanics (mostly of caucasian stock), and, of course, African Americans are objects of ridicule and hatred.
What they don't see is everything else. They've been told that any resistance to Trumpy is a conspiracy to pour water on their dreams, a conspiracy by ANYONE who can fit their need to alienate and vilify.
Notice that by most observations, Trumpy's base is driven by emotions: fear and rage. This is by design, as we now know from disclosures recently exposed regarding Cambridge Analytica. CA targeted voters who are driven by emotion, not by issues or by reasoning ability. These voters generally have fewer intellectual resources to effectively use critical thinking skills: an ability that is anathema to CA's microtargeting tactics. And let's be honest. Half of the nation's citizens have BELOW AVERAGE INTELLIGENCE, and those citizens generally rely on emotional charges to make decisions (such as who they favor in elections) because they have, by definition, fewer internal resources to rationally discriminate. They are the low hanging fruit being picked by Cambridge Analytica.
So, the entire Trumpy movement is driven by big-money data miners (the Kochs, the Mercers, etc.) who duped and manipulated a "white" population generally occupying the lower end of the intellectual spectrum.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)poboy2
(2,078 posts)CA is saying nothing new though. Emotions, not facts often win elections. This may be truer than most will admit.
They were exploiting fear, anger and hate. All those were already there, they stoked, nurtured and grew it.
We just put information into the bloodstream to the internet and then watch it grow, give it a little push every now and again over time to watch it take shape. And so this stuff infiltrates the online community and expands but with no branding so its unattributable, untrackable.
It would be a mistake to think that only Trumpanzees are susceptible.
We ALL are in different ways over different triggers.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,440 posts)CA just found a way to utilize algorithms on a stolen database. They provide a good illustration of how neutral science can be used for evil purposes.