And Who Would Be The Donald's Real "Losers" and "Suckers"? - Brian Lambert
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https://www.wrywingpolitics.com/and-who-would-be-the-donalds-real-losers-and-suckers/
A good read with some interesting ideas.
Even before we got to the losers and suckers phase of The Donald Trump Experience we already knew this election was set in cement. Nothing is going to stop 39% of the American voting age population from idolizing a narcissistic reality TV performer. That 39% can almost be described as genetic, certainly figuratively and quite possibly literally.
To be specific, about the likelihood that the 39% is an evolutionary standard, possibly millions of years old. There have been studies of the psychological manifestations of an overactive, which is say, differently wired amygdala, the brains physical center for controlling emotions. A bit more active than normal and the fight-or flight mechanism is more hair-trigger and less reflective.
As scientists have said, ruefully in many cases, its an open question whether in evolutionary terms this 39% represents the portion of the species that survives what comes next and therefore passes on its DNA, or whether it fades away, an unadaptive anachronism, like wooly mammoths, dodo birds and our prehensile tails.
The immediate problem of course is what damage this highly instinctive, highly reactive, all but completely unreflective allegiance to the biggest apes constant false alarms does to the tribe in general.