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erronis

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Mon Sep 7, 2020, 02:45 PM Sep 2020

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 brain’s 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, it’s 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 ape’s constant false alarms does to the tribe in general.
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And Who Would Be The Donald's Real "Losers" and "Suckers"? - Brian Lambert (Original Post) erronis Sep 2020 OP
Interesting Article leftieNanner Sep 2020 #1
Thank you - corrected. erronis Sep 2020 #2
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