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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (2772)

12/18/2016 11:51:53 PM

From: koan

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I don't think it's something specific that a person can identify with regard to the Trump supporters ideology, or Trump's ideology. I am of the school of thought that everyone generally speaking exists and thinks according to the scientific idea of knowledge directed perception. What that means is simply that you cannot see what you don't understand.

So I think when one looks at a Trump supporter, generally speaking, they are looking at people who simply do not see what Trump is about. They can't see that far. They simply don't have enough information. All they know is that he is talking to them. So when defending him they grab at right wing talking points they see on Fox News, Breitbart or the National Enquirer and then just sew them together.

But this is true all over the world, in every culture. The problem one runs into when trying to address it, is that to even put it forth as an idea seems elitist, or ethnocentric. But science had nothing specific in mind when it made that assertion. The general idea is that the more you learn about the world, the wider and more comprehensive your perception of the world becomes.

And history seems to confirm this. For example, Ayaan Hersi Ali, who wrote the book infidel. She was born and raised in a very conservative Somali village and for the first 15 or so years of her life knew nothing except that deep conservative Muslim culture.

But she learned English and when her father was transferred to Kenya they had a library and Nancy Drew books. After reading Nancy Drew books, she realized that women could do all sorts of things. That story is repeated all over the world, all the time. The Internet is doing great things providing people chained to primitive dogma a new way of looking at things. But Trump supporters don't seem to avail themselves of good information preferring to stick with stuff that confirms their reality.

For 18 months I watched reporters interview the Trump supporters, and it was easy to see they didn't really understand what he was about. I felt most of them would have trouble naming the seven continents. That is not meant as a dig, but a unit of measurement.

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Which is why I didn't elaborate. Indeed. She is closer to it. Better angle. I'm feeling rather like the blind man with the elephant...