I've been reading a book (Jonathan Haidts: The Righteous Mind) and stumbled upon a concept that aptly explains leftist think in the Trump era.
There is a concept called Cognitive Modules. Cognitive modules give us a hyper sensitivity towards perception. For example, we see faces in clouds but we don't see clouds in faces. We see animals in clouds but we don't see clouds in animals. This hypersensitivity is hardwired into our brains.
A key trait of cognitive modules is that it makes all of the mistakes in ONE direction (faces in clouds not vice versa). Leftists today have an anti-Trump cognitive module. It causes them to see everything Trump does in a negative light.
While I support Trump, I have made mistakes in the past that caused me to see Trump behavior to be falsely negative. For example, I fell for the fine people hoax and the grab her by the pussy hoax before doing more research.
The problem with leftists is that they make 100% of their mistakes in one direction. They see anything that Trump does in a negative light. Where you can ideologically checkmate your leftist friend is by asking them to give you an example of a mistake that they made where they viewed something that Trump did as good (that was actually bad). Obviously they won't be able to do this.
At this point you can explain to them that they have something called a cognitive module that causes them to view everything through a negative lens. This is a psychological fallacy.
Be ready to respond to their next retort (will that's because Trump never does anything positive!) with a few positive Trump achievements. Prison reform, record black and female unemployment, $2,000 stimulus, and Middle East relations should be effective for this type of person.
By using the #science™ of psychology, you will get your leftist cog friend to gut-check themself.
(cleaned up for typos) Person a: just accept the election results, ya'll are being sore losers. Certify!
Person b: have you seen the volumes of fraud? Here is a compilation of statistical anomalies, here is a report of all of the people who voted out of state in Pennsylvania and in Georgia, here is a report of all the dead people that voted, here is a report of thousands of votes that were flipped by the software in the system, here is hundreds of affidavits by poll workers alleging fraud, here is a list of all the people who couldn't vote on the day of election because a ballot had already been cast in their name, here's a list of people who did not vote but had a ballot cast in their name, here is an article explaining how Pennsylvania violated its constitution in allowing votes after election day, here is a list of counties that had 150%, 200%, 250% turnout of their registered voters, here is a long list of voters whose birthday is January 1st 1900, here is a Dominion contractor explaining how the voting machines were abused.
Person a: yeah I'm not going to waste my time on any of your propaganda. You should stop being a sore loser and accept the election.
Person b: if I showed you enough fraud to overturn the actual election results, would it change your mind?
Person a: no, move on
The moral of the story is that some people don't want the truth, they just want to be right, regardless of truth. Words won't work with these people. Where words fail, action must prevail.
Was having a discussion with a few OG t_d fans and we found an old starship troopers clip that had been made into a meme. it was the liberal establishment names (cnn, msnbc, don lemon) fighting against conservative figures. It was made by a guy who made a bunch of great video memes for r/the_donald.
DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THAT MEME LORD'S NAME?
Trying to find him like a kid on a milk carton
The top nine States with the lowest unemployment have Republican governors. The bottom nine States with the highest unemployment have Democrat governors. Don't know if I can link bureau of labor statistics data but look it up ("unemployment by state") and tell your friends to vote red.
Styx had a good point at the end of one of his recent videos.
We are all going to be talking to a lot of people over the next two months. Some of them will be independent. Talk to them about how Trump will make their lives better in ways the average person can understand. Strong families, strong economy means strong job security, strong national security means low fear of harm.
Don't get into conspiracy land because this will cause independents to tune you out. Talking with someone who has little political knowledge about the new world order is going to push them towards Biden.
Be reasonable, concise, go vote, and convince others to do the same thing.
