Michael Hardner

Do such videos work ? I don't remember anything like this having a big impact vs ones of the candidates themselves, gaffes and so on...

Well, yes. Do you think that people who espouse views left of yours are unreasonable maniacs? I don't. So.. When people start out a post demonizing an entire block of their countrymen they're saying that they don't believe in politics, in effect. And I block them because it isn't worth my time. You discuss things, presumably because you are looking for some good points in your opponent's posts.

And in a world where hedonism is the overarching value, who would want children?

Arguing semantics is the least interesting activity on a forum. They are not starving. They can probably afford drugs, drink, some things. Is that sufficient now? They have their freedom to live In urban squalor, so our national project is therefore complete?

Believe it or not they took that into account.

It's almost like you didn't read my last post... Reply, reply, reply, zzzzzzz... He's a weak man, and a fake intellectual.

Also... why do I have to listen to someone who I have already heard enough from to know what he's about? Do you listen to every Nancy Pelosi speech, just in case she started coming up with some good ideas?

Last thing I listened to was his thunderously stupid diatribe on Climate Change. From a guy who rants about accountability and such, he speaks at length on a topic he knows zero about. He's a charlatan. And if he wasn't active in the culture war he'd be insignificant. As it is, fellow tribesmen love his hectoring tone so they support him.

This is a feature of advertising and the consumer Society... Making people feel ok about taking the easy way...

And nobody in the family is intervening to fix this situation?

We need more Democratization not less. We need the public to understand things, not just choose based on their tastes. Advertising has created a culture of narcissists where every dumb choice is sacrosanct.

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Of course it's a problem with other Nations, but the article is about Russia.

I don't know anything for sure, because I don't live there. So I can only assume it's working based on the persistence of use, and the polling. And I am very disappointed.

I know it is. I stopped reading because I saw where it was going. It's not that interesting to read rants about how 1/2 the country is crazy

I'm two seconds in and I stopped reading. Culture Warriors, please do me a favour and stop posting about the Culture War as if you're not fighting in it

That's right. Now you're being called "weird", and it's sticking. How do you like the Culture War? I don't.

You, perhaps above all posters, hit the nail on the head consistently here. The hatred of Trump is blinding a lot of people to the fact that the Democrats have switched over to his style of electioneering, albeit with modifications. The public is gone, replaced by a mass of consumers following influencers. This means that substantive responses to problems will be replaced by popular ones. There will never be a leader who can tell people what they don't want to hear. And now that the Democrats have joined this new style of politicking, it's just a matter of time before A crisis arrives that will only be handled by denial. I would say the best hope is that politically centrist intellectual leaders with common touch rise up to set the agenda for political leaders. I'm thinking like ... Jordan Peterson except with a brain and heart.

Then declare war. Ban the Democratic Party. Reject politics.

They are right about one thing. Narcissism and self-centeredness has risen to the point where they can't coexist with our idea of a Nation. If you're not willing to do anything at all to help your countrymen, there's no point. If you're not willing to engage in politics because you reject values that aren't identical to yours, then there's no point. The idea that the Democrats own narcissism is a culture war talking point. To me, such values come on the back of the Public Sphere. In this case, I would blame Advertising and it's century-long tradition of flattery for creating a mass of superego consumers and destroying the concept of citizenry. We don't think about other people anymore.

Dissolve NATO just as Russia is escalating, its aggression in Europe? Preposterous.

Except weaponized DOJ is a conspiracy theory. The Dossier was found out and ended up hurting the Democrat Party. Trump's insults haven't really hurt him yet. You might as well say... Trump's insults pale in comparison with the Democratic Party goal of destroying America. It's a nice Culture Warrior type tagline. And again I ask the Culture Warriors out there: why not just campaign to BAN the Democratic Party? Clearly they're illegal and bent on destroying America....

FOX is MSM. As for the rest, they can now insult ago personal with impunity. To answer my last question, it's Trump's playbook they stole.

Where did they steal that strategy from? And the insults?

My old stats professor was an expert, and did seasonal adjustments for Stats Canada. Not a conspiracy theory type guy at all. There's no conspiracy in that. Just computer programs.