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The Last Man in America to Change His Mind About Trump
(www.theatlantic.com)
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I'll save you a few minutes: this "never Trumper" Republican flipped to pro-Trump because he thinks his positive reinforcement might temper some of Trump's bad behavior. I wish I was kidding.
Translated grifterspeak: "fanatical mentally ill people give me more money when I attach Trumps name"
Btw this is the same thing they said about mussolini... hes gonna shift to center right if we just have a good infuence on him
Totally. You can't appease narcissists into not being narcissists. I wish we'd learn that as a species.
--Tangentially related rant (I promise I'm not high) alert--
Now that I'm thinking about it, at least in the United States, the educational system is bizarre. We teach our children information that's useful for making them into workers, but not necessarily functional, fulfilled people. Why don't we teach them methods for handling social situations? How to deal with narcissists, compulsive liars, and manipulators? For some reason that's left for the parents to do, and as a whole they've been doing a piss poor job for decades.
It's a feature not a bug.
As the other reply said its a feature not a bug. Take hungary where i spent the majority of my life and studies and they teach you extreme amounts but when it comes to critical thinking, maybe the top 10 schools are competent. Its designed this way. The bar to become a teacher has been lowered and the pay is shit so a lot of teachers do managment jobs instead(literally tesco and stuff like that) and the ones left cant teach properly. If the generation grows up there wont be any intelectuals to oppose the growing faschism and then you can fill in the rest...