Why Is It Cons Love Hateful Rhetoric Enough To Elect An Idiot?

[Grassy Knoll]

Do They Honesty Believe This Is The Way To Make America Great?
I Don't Get This Shit At All, Their Humor Is Not Funny, And Dryer
Than A Camel Fart in 130 degree Desert Storm.

[elleng]

1. This:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017423499

[Grassy Knoll]

2. Thanks elleng

[elleng]

3. You're welcome, Grassy Knoll.

It's getting rough around here, eh?

[Grassy Knoll]

4. I'm Now Looking For A Hat That Sez:

"Make America knowledgeable Again", But The Correct Spelling
Will Confuse Half The Country.

[Trust Buster]

5. The hateful hyperbole from Right wing media has convinced 50% of the country that they have

experienced the worst standard of living instead of the greatest standard of living humanity has ever known.

[Maru Kitteh]

6. The lizard brain

Basic ‘lizard brain’ psychology can explain the rise of Donald Trump

Call it what you will — the "Authoritarian Dynamic," basic Freudianism, fear, insecurity, tribalism or even the rise of the "lizard brain" — but Donald Trump's rise follows a well-documented psychological path.

"When a population is feeling insecure, it favors authoritarian figures who promise to solve their problems and defeat their enemies," said Dr. William J. Doherty, professor of Family Social Science at University of Minnesota and author of the Citizen Therapists for Democracy manifesto, now signed by 3,800 mental health professionals.

Doherty, a student of history as well as the mind, reminds us that humanity's current organizing principle — liberal, pluralistic democracy — is largely a recent development. For most of human history, of course, civilization existed because "warriors and warrior-leaders" defeated their tribe's enemies.

"We are programmed for embracing hierarchy, starting with children clinging to parents, and the more threatened we are, the more we hope that a 'strongman' can save us," Doherty told me. "We have become so tribal that many of us would vote for the devil if he wore our colors."
www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/basic-lizard-brain-psychology-explain-rise-trump-article-1.2960261

Lizard Brain:
Lizard brain" refers to the oldest part of the brain, the brain stem, responsible for primitive survival instincts such as aggression and fear

[canetoad]

7. It's not entirely the rhetoric

In the 90s a Melbourne psychologist wrote a book called Dangerous Persuaders.

Her main premise was that people with no qualifications and less business to be doing so, were fucking with heads by lowering critical thinking skills and encouraging a need for group acceptance.

Basically, a state of hypnosis can be reached, not only in deep relaxation but also in a state of hyper-stimulation. When barriers are loosend and critical thinking becomes dull (think chanting cheering at rallies, speaking in tongues) the audience is ripe for suggestion.

The author's conclusion was that unauthorised and unqualified charlatans were using powerful mind altering techniques that a mental health professional would be sued over, if misused.