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

To: Lane3 who wrote (11598)	2/20/2017 3:39:05 AM
From: one_less	Respond to of 362974

I stand corrected... again.

To: Lane3 who wrote (11598)	2/20/2017 4:29:19 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362974

Occam’s Razor and Trump Andrew Sullivan’s post is far better than this one; read his instead: nymag.com As far as I can tell: 1. About 100% of liberal pundits think Trump’s a buffoon 2. About 100% of moderate pundits think Trump’s a buffoon 3. About 50% of conservative pundits (and more of the elite ones) think Trump’s a buffoon 4. Some conservative pundits think Trump’s being unfairly maligned. I’m not opposed to contrarian positions; I’ve taken them myself (as in my view of the Fed’s role in the Great Recession.) But monetary policy is a highly specialized field, and popularity contests aren’t of much use when evaluating the truth of propositions related to the liquidity trap, or the many worlds interpretation of QM. But while most people are not well informed on arcane economic issues, they are hard wired to be pretty good at reading their fellow human beings. You didn’t need a PhD in psych to notice that Jimmy Carter was more honest than Richard Nixon. Many of my commenters are ignoring Occam’s Razor, and are making a highly improbable claim. They seem to think that the small number of conservative pundits who respect Trump are the only ones not blinded by ideology. Liberals are blinded by bias and moderates are blinded by bias and me and George Will and Jonah Goldberg and all the other right of center people who see Trump for what his is are simply “hallucinating”. That’s certainly possible; people who hallucinate don’t know they are hallucinating. But think about what your claim means. If it’s possible for me to hallucinate and not know it, then it’s equally possible for you to do so. I’ll go with the simpler explanation; the few pundits who don’t see Trump for what his is are the one’s with a “bias” problem. After all, did 100% of conservative pundits and 100% of moderate pundit and 50% of liberal pundits think Obama was a buffoon? I didn’t like the guy’s economic policies, but he seemed no worse than the run of the mill politician in almost any given human attribute, and better in some (like ability to speak). So I’ll go with the simplest and most logical explanation for why so many pundits think Trump is a buffoon, until I see evidence to the contrary. more here themoneyillusion.com

To: Lane3 who wrote (11598)	2/20/2017 10:10:22 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 362974

If that deist is who I think it was, he actually asked me once, "Why would anyone be good and not murder people if they didn't believe in a higher power?" I was so shocked by the naivete and weirdness of that question, I've remembered it for years (along with the idea that life would be a giant sucking void without a God- another of his ideas.) So he did credit his good behavior to a deity- at least inferentially, by suggesting people without one wouldn't have good behavior.