I may have gotten someone to take the red pill with this idea. It's a gentle one, but I think future confirmation bias might open doors.
I may have gotten someone to take the red pill with this idea. It's a gentle one, but I think future confirmation bias might open doors.
Drives me crazy when people try to equate "I like/don't like what he says" to "he's a good/bad president". If that was true, all you'd have to do is hire a speech writer who appeals to the most people and it doesn't matter what the words are. Just read the script, like an actor.
Case & point: Obama. He was an actor. He thought he was a rockstar. When I had a Facebook during previous elections, I had friends say "I'd much rather hang out with and have a beer with Obama than McCain! So I'm voting for him!" My response was always "I'd rather hang out with and have a beer with my friends than my proctologist, but that doesn't mean I want my buddies sticking their fingers up my ass".
This was before I knew NoName was a neocon rino, so in the long run it didn't matter. My point still stands.
I know what you are saying. In my head, my story is simply that. I don't always like what he says, but I like a lot of what he's done and is doing. I didn't vote for him in 2016, but allowed myself to be persuaded by his performance.
It's like having the one honest friend in a group of yes-men. What you're hearing might not give you warm and fuzzy feelings, but it's something you need to hear. That's what Trump is. Which is a breath of fresh air in politics.