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Facebook post by Micaela (my daughter) on the day after the election

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Hopalong:
Hi Doc G--
You and Micaela may enjoy the film The Brainwashing of My Dad (available on Amazon) if you haven't already.

Smart analysis.

Sadly,
Hops

mudpuppy:
Fox News is accused of using Goebbel's tactics to brainwash people and the gal consults noted centrist Noam Chomsky (centrist in this case meaning a radical revolutionary anarchist) to help explain her father's radicalism.

I was concerned for a short time that the Democrat party might throw off the shackles of the New Left that has captured it and it might return to a sensible JFK/Harry Truman center-left philosophy to put a halt to its long march to the political wilderness.
I guess my concern was misplaced. Carry on

BTW, the left consoles itself that Hillary won the popular vote but that is deceptive. A substantial majority of the population lives in uncompetitive states like CA and NY leading to millions of Rep  voters who stay home,  more so than Dems who stay home in so called red states. A better measure is the national congressional vote which when adjusted for non competitive races shows a Rep vote advantage of around 3 million votes. And the fact Reps now control about 2/3 of state governments confirms fewer and fewer people are following the increasingly leftist Dem pied piper. Now, the typical response to this is that the numbers don't matter because being "correct" is all that counts and that the people will eventually see the error of their ways and will catch up.
That's an interesting theory that I guess we'll get to test.

What's more interesting to me is how a political ideology, as opposed to a political philosophy,  is so dependent on self affirmation and confirmation bias while being nearly impervious to external criticism or even external data. If an ideology is defined  as a rigid system of thought that seeks to conform the world to its vision rather than a philosophy that seeks to adapt itself to certain unalterable aspects of the world, it's remarkable how closely ideologies match the us vs them of the networks Ns surround themselves with, even to the point of labeling those outside the network as not merely wrong or mistaken but insane and evil.
What's equally analogous is how blithely the most vile accusations are flung at those outside the network as though their insanity and evil compared to the network's probity, truths and morality is so self evident that no rational person could fail to come to the same conclusion.
Which leads to the rich irony of those reacting emotionally and most impervious to opposing views or data points looking for, and not surprisingly finding in great abundance exactly those traits in those outside the network.
The world is a very odd place.

Mud

Hopalong:
I didn't think you would enjoy the film, Mud.
I thought others might.

Peace,
Hops

mudpuppy:
On the contrary Hops,  I enjoyed it immensely under the "never interrupt your adversary when he's making a mistake"  maxim. :)

Mud

Hopalong:
Last word to you, Mud.

Not your adversary,
Hops

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