Posted on 03/24/2016 12:40:13 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Scott Adams remembers just how the game turned. He was young and improving at chess, but the masterful kid across the board would outmaneuver Adams till the game seemed a runaway. Now, this kid didn't want to just beat Adams; he wanted to embarrass him.
"So after he'd picked away three-fourths of my pieces and I was discouraged," Adams recounts, "he would offer to turn the board around and play with my pieces." And then effectively "win" again.
On those occasions, Adams, the creator of "Dilbert," got insight into the type of personality that loves not only the challenge of game strategy, but also the thrill of overwhelming the competition. It is the sport of meticulously plotted domination.
And that is part of why Adams believes Donald Trump will win the presidency. In a landslide.
Adams, in other words, believes that Trump himself has turned the campaign game around. On the stump, the real-estate mogul is not running on the knowledge of his numbers or the dissection of the data. He is running on our emotions, Adams says, and sly appeals to our own human irrationality.
Since last August, in fact, when many were calling Trump's entry a clown candidacy, the "Dilbert" cartoonist was already declaring The Donald a master in the powers of persuasion who would undoubtedly rise in the polls. And last week, Adams began blogging about how Trump can rhetorically dismantle Clinton's candidacy next....
(Excerpt) Read more at sunherald.com ...
Here’s a thought:
Utah- NOT a border state. Cruz wins.
Arizona- Mexican BORDER state. Trump wins.
Which state SEES the danger?
(Yes, I acknowledge that I may be seriously over-simplifying the argument. Texas is a border state as well, but voted Cruz...but that’s his home.
I think that, on June 7th, both New Mexico AND California are going Trump. Why? Mexican Border states. Just my opinion, YMMV.)
And Ted is a yappy purse dog: “The dogs bark but the caravan moves on”.
Ted will get savaged by the Clinton/democrat machine.
Or one could say that Utah voters mindlessly followed their religious leaders, whereas Arizona voters actually thought for themselves.
I like Scott and as a Trump supporter I’ll take the flattering parts of his argument; that Trump is skilled at the “game” of winning in politics.
The unflattering implication; that Trump’s appeal is 100% emotional and zero percent rational - I beg to differ. First of all, the “game” analogy (chess) is not 100% appropriate. There is winning the presidency and there is being a good president once elected. Two different things. With chess winning is the whole point, and after you win there is nothing except maybe starting another match.
While there may be some supporters of various candidates who care more about their ‘team’ winning, Hoorah!, and not much about the fate of the country under that leadership, I trust the vast majority of people are not of that ilk.
People want their candidate to win not for the sake of winning, but because they believe they would make a better president. Certainly, Trump supporters are proud of their candidate’s skill at winning, but let’s give them a tiny bit of credit here: they also look forward to being proud of their candidate’s skill at being president, once elected.
Also, feeling strongly (an emotion) about issues such as open borders, rip off trade deals, weakness against ISIS, corruption and incompetence in DC - does not preclude rational thought about those issues. Just because one ‘feels’ angry and frustrated, does not mean one is irrational.
Cult leader issues cult orders and you call that immune to Trump's charms. I totally agree.
| ...Cruz isn't learning, he's echoing. He thinks he can rely on data collection and a team of psychologists to manipulate the voters... There's great wisdom in what you've said, Rasputin. You've set it up nicely -- a team of data collecting psychologists vs. a smart guy who understands his customers. And isn't that what has occurred in the last 15 years? The big data collectors like Google and Amazon and Microsoft are out there to invade our privacy and to subtly influence our thinking -- turn us into obedient servants of their advertising and propaganda campaigns. Every person becomes a number, an "individual unit of consumption" to be controlled. Do they really care about the health of the society that produces those "consumption units"? So a guy like Cruz is the tool of the data manipulators. He's a guy who is never held a non-lawyer, non-government job of any consequence in his life. So even the basic value-creating knowledge that your average American gains from 20 years of work life is quite foreign to Cruz. And closing that knowledge gap requires Cruz to hug close to his data collectors. So he's beholden to them. And he shamelessly spams us with his email pleas for money, and his team is best at caucus campaigning where influence can be brought to bear on a relatively small number of people. And then there's Trump who has grown his $10 billion consumer business as you say with "empathy in practice". I have read three of Trump's books and in each one of them you're given valuable knowledge. You get what you pay for with Trump because he understands what his customers really want and he gives it to them. In fact, let me quote from a paragraph in Art of the Deal where Trump explains why he is not a fan of mechanized data collection:
|
Great! You made some a number of very fine points here! Nice enumerating :- )
Once Trump wins the election and Graham, Bush, Romney, et al get on board with him, will that mean that Trump has gone over to the Dark Side?
Excellent comment and summary of why - and HOW - Trump is in this, to win this.
Funny side note....James Woods, who is a cRuz supporter, recently tweeted about receiving phishing emails. Someone should tell him that if he’s donated to untrusTED, then his contact info has been ran through every metadata system out there. LOL.
Perhaps Sen Ted should consider changing the vocation. There is always room for another detective should politics not work out for them.
Phishing can be productive if one uses those ‘little grey cells’ and they do it wisely. There is dirty politics, but there is also the matter of our Constitution; and how it must be followed no matter how you read it. That we do is showing ourselves to be True Americans.
:-))
James Woods will always be remembered for that movie “Videodrome” made perhaps a decade ago. He plays something of a detective. Strange movie; strange times.
Our Maker has seen fit to equip us with a sixth sense. This cannot be explained; only accepted, or not. Donald uses his and has fine tuned the ability by doing so. If we take everything at ‘face value’ knowing there are doubts in the particular assumption, we only deceive ourselves.
And so it goes, the five books already in the stack to read next will be further down in the stack under Trump.
So much to read, so little time.
Regards
That’s great. Enjoy reading. When we elect Trump, we’re getting a helluva lot of smarts in our President.
“Once Trump wins the election and Graham, Bush, Romney, et al get on board with him, will that mean that Trump has gone over to the Dark Side?”
No, because as you note, THEY will have gotten on board with HIM. HE won’t have gotten on board with THEM. The post-election groveling will be a beautiful sight to behold, with all the mea culpas and ever so convenient selective amnesia. Watched it with RWR and look forward to it happening again.
Republicans have forgotten how to:
1. Sell
2. Appeal to the voters
3. Look attractive
3. Deal with the media
4. Craft a message
5. Many other things
I think Rush said something VERY profound the other day, that nobody else has mentioned.
The current Republican party is not organized for or has the goal of winning elections.
Think about that for a while.
If that is the case, and I think it is, then it explains a LOT of the events of the last 20+ years.
That will never happen. Trump will win the election without Graham, Bush and Romney and they will just fade into the sunset. I don’t know where Beck will go , maybe to the nut house.
He eviscerated her by bringing up the peccadilloes of her husband and her part in it. Two paragraphs, one tweet. The Clintons melted.
Not a Trump fan
But I loved that.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.