glatt wrote:
Henry, is there any number of infections or deaths that would cause you to believe that this pandemic is serious?
On 8 May, American death toll from Covid-19 exceeded American deaths in the entire Vietnam war. But that is not serious. Because, as David Brooks so accurately noted, extremists cannot see facts. Futile is to argue facts with extremists. Since they know everything only from that part of the brain that makes decisions from emotions.
At that same time, Washington had never seen so many peaceful demonstrators since the 1960s anti-Vietnam and Civil Rights marches. So what did Trump do only 17 days later? He had peaceful demonstrators attacked with riot chemicals and baton swinging police. Then three hours later, a helicopter flying only 45 feet about the street creating human harmful debris to further attack peaceful demonstrators. He then denied demonstrators were peaceful. So that he could stand in from the St Johns church holding a Bible.
How ironic. He is not religious. He openly lies (Thou shalt not bear false witness against they neighbor). He cheats on every wife (Thou shalt not commit adultery). But again, extremists (even evangelicals) ignore facts. Since facts contradict their emotions.
That same day, Minneapolis police murdered George Floyd. Trump's own words
We are now in the process of defeating the radical left, the Marxists, the anarchists, the agitators, the looters.
When confronted by a question that there are no Marxists left, then Trump replied
Black Lives Matter, what they do is they literally have it in their website that they're Marxists.
Later said
I have done more for the Black community than any other president other than Abraham Lincoln.
Obviously he is lying. Somehow he has done more for the Black Lives Matter movement? Just like he denies the death numbers from Covid. Extremist believe it for only one reason. It agrees with their emotions.
The pre-frontal cortex does not operate in extremists. Asking any extremist here or in the White House to use facts and numbers is impossible. Which explains why extremists here routinely post insults and cheapshots at moderates when confronted by facts. The emotional know that acting like a bully is somehow factual proof. It has seriously increased in the past four years.
More Americans were killed by Covid-19 than all Americans in Vietnam. That happened over seven months ago. Only two months after a president acknowledged this Covid problem (while remaining in denial of its severity - publicly).
Because he said that, then an extremist knows he is not harming the Constitutional Rights of all others. Because he feels - emotionally - that he is not asymptomatic. He knows because the brain of a child (also called the reptilian brain) says so. No fact will change that mentality.
A same brain that Timothy McVeigh used to justify mass murder. That is the problem. Too many adults think like children. Adults who will never be officer material. Same type adults who knew Hilary Clinton was running a pedophile ring in the basement of a pizza shop. That communist were running the State Department and US Army. That Saddam had WMDs. And that Jews had conspired to destroy Germany. They just knew it must be true. Their emotions (the source of so many insults and other disparaging remarks) prove it.
Futile is to try arguing using facts. As Henry Quirk demonstrates but again. Facts cannot be heard by an adult who is thinking like a child.
Notice what follows. Violence. Since that is what Timothy McVeigh types use for proof.
Last edited by tw (12/14/2020 7:08 pm)
