National Review’s The Week contained this bit: “Amid mounting shock and horror on Election Night, liberals reached for a security blanket of an explanation: White voters had chosen Trump as part of a racial backlash against the rising non-white population of the country. While Trump is no innocent in racial controversies, that’s a reach. Upon finding out that a portion of Trump voters large enough to be decisive had previously voted for President Obama, even twice, the explainers set about devising convoluted explanations of how this fact did not in any way bear on the validity of their theory. Ezra Klein asserted as indisputable truth that the 2016 campaign had placed race at the forefront of voters’ minds, unlike [say,] elections featuring the first black major-party nominee and president. If you believe that, you’ll believe anything — or at least anything you want to believe.”
And that is where we find ourselves on all sides. Gullibility on parade.
We seem to find ourselves in an environment in which few, in any part of the political spectrum, want to look at patterns of behavior and evidence to form sound opinions.
The brainwashed on climate change will accept almost any claim about the environment, no matter how preposterous or without evidence. And also of the Left, many believe that simply being born white makes one a racist which is a fundamentally racist belief itself.
On the Right many stand ready to believe almost any conspiracy theory about the machinations of the Left no matter how worn out, recycled or without evidence such claim is.
And at present, we have national talk show hosts of the Right spending time every day on why we shouldn’t necessarily pay attention to what the President-elect of our country actually says or types.
We seem to find ourselves in an environment in which few, in any part of the political spectrum, want to look at patterns of behavior and evidence to form sound opinions. In fact, doing gets pilloried with negative labels.
This serves no one well and now that the big election is out of the way it’s time to take off our rose colored glasses and observe with clarity what people are doing with the power we gave them.
Election aren’t weddings, there are no honeymoons
Robert Pratt
National Review’s The Week contained this bit: “Amid mounting shock and horror on Election Night, liberals reached for a security blanket of an explanation: White voters had chosen Trump as part of a racial backlash against the rising non-white population of the country. While Trump is no innocent in racial controversies, that’s a reach. Upon finding out that a portion of Trump voters large enough to be decisive had previously voted for President Obama, even twice, the explainers set about devising convoluted explanations of how this fact did not in any way bear on the validity of their theory. Ezra Klein asserted as indisputable truth that the 2016 campaign had placed race at the forefront of voters’ minds, unlike [say,] elections featuring the first black major-party nominee and president. If you believe that, you’ll believe anything — or at least anything you want to believe.”
And that is where we find ourselves on all sides. Gullibility on parade.
We seem to find ourselves in an environment in which few, in any part of the political spectrum, want to look at patterns of behavior and evidence to form sound opinions.
The brainwashed on climate change will accept almost any claim about the environment, no matter how preposterous or without evidence. And also of the Left, many believe that simply being born white makes one a racist which is a fundamentally racist belief itself.
On the Right many stand ready to believe almost any conspiracy theory about the machinations of the Left no matter how worn out, recycled or without evidence such claim is.
And at present, we have national talk show hosts of the Right spending time every day on why we shouldn’t necessarily pay attention to what the President-elect of our country actually says or types.
We seem to find ourselves in an environment in which few, in any part of the political spectrum, want to look at patterns of behavior and evidence to form sound opinions. In fact, doing gets pilloried with negative labels.
This serves no one well and now that the big election is out of the way it’s time to take off our rose colored glasses and observe with clarity what people are doing with the power we gave them.