“I Know I Am but What Are You?” 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Jeremy Sherman dissects the Republican Party’s electoral strategy–repetitive fact-free discourse. A snippet:
(snip)
“This guy doesn’t think. He just automatically says whatever makes him sound infallible.”
“That’s not true.”
“See, he did it again.”
“No, you’re the one who makes stuff up.”
“There he goes, like a robot turning every challenge back on the challenger.”
“I’m not doing that. You are.”
“There it is again. See that, folks?”
“Well, you do it too.”
“Always defensive.”
“I am not!”
“See that? He’s proving my point.”The no-growth formula is their MO, their only trick, their one-size-tricks-all, wall to wall formula.
He goes on to argue that, against such thinking, facts are useless, which, I suppose, has been borne out by events. For example. (Regrettably, he does not suggest an effective approach beyond “wait it out.”)
