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Posted on 07/12/2016 8:06:59 PM PDT by Ellendra
Some of you watched with amusement as I endorsed Hillary Clinton for my personal safety. What you might not know is that I was completely serious. I was getting a lot of direct and indirect death threats for writing about Trump’s powers of persuasion, and I made all of that go away by endorsing Clinton. People don’t care why I am on their side. They only care that I am.
You might have found it funny that I endorsed Clinton for my personal safety. But it was only funny by coincidence. I did it for personal safety, and apparently it is working. Where I live, in California, it is not safe to be seen as supportive of anything Trump says or does. So I fixed that.
Again, I’m completely serious about the safety issue. Writing about Trump ended my speaking career, and has already reduced my income by about 40%, as far as I can tell. But I’m in less physical danger than I was.
If you didn’t believe me that I endorsed Clinton for my safety, perhaps the recent shooting of police officers changed your mind. That’s the sort of tragedy you expect to happen when Team Clinton frames the national debate as a race war.
Let me give you an example of how Clinton and her supporters in the media have pushed us to the brink of a race war. This article in the Washington Post tells us that although cops kill more whites than African-Americans, we still have a police racism problem because blacks are killed in greater proportion to their relative population. That’s all true, as far as I can tell.
But what got left out?
Well, for one thing, it doesn’t address the fact that most police shootings happen in high-crime areas (I assume). And high crime areas in the United States often have high concentrations of African-American citizens. If the police accidentally shoot someone in my neighborhood, the victim will almost certainly be white, Asian, or Indian, because that’s who lives here. But if police accidentally shoot someone in a predominantly African-American neighborhood with a high crime rate, the odds are high that it will be an African-American victim. Does that tell us anything about racism?
To be clear, racism exists. What we don’t know is how it plays out in every scenario. Cherry-picked data doesn’t tell us anything useful. But it probably does get cops killed.
You also have to ask yourself how the environment influences the amount of resistance one shows to a police officer. If you grow up in a tough neighborhood, where you’ve learned to use aggression to resist all forms of bullying and abuse, you might not surrender to police as passively as people raised in a less violent world. Statistics don’t capture that sort of difference, if there is any.
The backdrop to all of this racial tension is that Trump was winning the persuasion war by making citizens afraid of external threats from illegal immigrants and terrorists. That was a strong formula because people respond to fear.
But Clinton’s team – including social media and the liberal-leaning mainstream media – responded by defining Trump as a literal Hitler. A Hitler-like leader in your own country is even scarier than external threats. Persuasion-wise, it is a winning formula for Team Clinton, even though the case is built on confirmation bias, not fact. (Trump has never mentioned race in a negative way.)
So now we have a situation in which Team Clinton has scared citizens into thinking the threat to their lives is mostly domestic, coming from Trump, Trump supporters, and anyone who looks like them. People who are scared will act. And we see those actions now in terms of violence against police, violence against Trump supporters, and death threats to bloggers such as me. And we already have one attempted Trump assassination.
So far, Trump has showed a willingness to annihilate any professional politician that gets in the way. And he’s annihilated professional reporters and news organizations that got in his way. And he’s tough on non-citizens. But Trump hasn’t tried to turn American citizens against each other. Clinton has, and successfully so.
You can blame Trump for Trump University, and for his uncivil language. You can blame Trump for lots of stuff. But the police shootings and the recent uptick in domestic racial violence are mostly Clinton’s doings to win the election. And it is working. Unless Trump finds a way to counter Clinton’s racial persuasion, he will lose in November.
I expect Trump to go full-attack after the conventions. It would take the world’s greatest persuader to redefine Trump in a way that he can win the election. But as it turns out, Trump is probably the world’s greatest persuader. That’s why I predict he will win in a landslide. Unless someone kills him first.
With that in mind, I think he makes some interesting points.
I wonder how many assassinations Hillary and Obama have between them compared to Trump?.../s
I just commented last night how much I enjoy his unique writing style.
It is interesting to Google deaths associated with the Clintons. There are whole websites dedicated to them.
“Someone”? WHO?
As does Obama. Anyone that knows about his gay lifestyle or birth certificate seems to disappear.
Here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3448363/posts
I know, titles are not identical.
Article is.
People call me on the phone -I’m trying to avoid
Well do the people on TV see me or am I just paranoid?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY
I am cutting edge in what I post. ;)
No doubt. :O)
bttt
I live in Orange County, CA.
I have had my new “TRUMP 45” Vanity License Plates on my Car for about a Month.
So far, mostly positive Comments. Outside of a friendly Thumbs Down and a couple of dirty looks, no problem.
When I ventured South to Escondido, I encountered another Driver who was obviously upset at my choice of a Presidential Candidate.
A wonderful Latin looking fellow driving an old hot rodded (if that’s even possible) Honda Civic decided to pull alongside me on the 78 Freeway and flip me off.
My Passenger responded in kind before I even realized what happened. He said he couldn’t make out what the guy was yelling out his window.
While I suspected that daring to have a Trump anything on my Car could be an issue, I am getting the feeling that nothing is beyond the imagination of what an upset Leftist is capable of.
Needless to say, the Car is never out of sight. If I need to go somewhere where it isn’t secure, I’ll take the Wife’s Kia.
I could take the easy route and get rid of the Plates, but it has become a matter of principle to me. WTH has happened to this Country that you have to fear having an opinion?
I remember seeing F**k Bush Bumper Stickers on Cars, even in supposedly Conservative Orange County. I would never think of doing anything more than looking at the Driver and shaking my head, even though I could not understand how anyone can drive around with the “F” word on their Car.
I felt for the Mothers driving their Children around pulling behind one of those Morons and having to explain what that was about.
The point is, back in 2000 things were bad. Now things are a whole lot worse. The Civil Society is no more, at least in any Urban or Semi-Urban / Suburban areas.
I don’t doubt for a second that Mr. Adams felt threatened.
I am thinking of putting up Jill Stein signs.
>>>I am thinking of putting up Jill Stein signs<<<
You’ll just confuse them. #;^)
Didn’t Rosie O’Dounuts announce she was running for it last time? Or was it some other loudmouth layabout like Whuppee Goldbrick or Jesse Jackhole?
Of course, you could always post the old “Monica Lewinsky’s ex-boyfriend’s Wife for Precedent!”
Or “Big Giant Meteor 2016”. :)
I know! Try “Jillian Michaels for President”! Because the fit!
He also predicted Trump winning the Republican primary in fall 2015. Back when the field was more than a dozen candidates.
bttt
Pictures are a must !
Too bad she plays for the other team.
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