Posted on 09/03/2016 6:31:30 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
There is a widespread belief that a Hillary Clinton presidency is a done deal.
Hillary Clinton supporters and a large portion of the mainstream news media have been convinced for months that Clinton simply cannot lose to Donald Trump under any circumstances. As a result, they see every twist and turn in this election as more proof that Clinton is succeeding and Trump is failing.
Here's a little World War II reminder of why that's a very dangerous mentality: In the weeks leading up to December 16, 1944, intelligence had been picking up evidence that the German army was planning a major counteroffensive in the Ardennes Forest. But the top generals in the Pentagon and in London dismissed the hard evidence right in front of them. You see, they had already determined and convinced themselves months before that Hitler's military machine didn't have any lethal attacks left in it. No amount of contradictory data were going to convince them otherwise. The result was what became known in the history books as "The Battle of the Bulge," a massive German offensive that caught the Allies by surprise and left 19,000 American troops dead and 56,000 more injured. It's also probably the most deadly example of confirmation bias in American history.
That groupthink mentality is also what led to the 2008 financial crisis that the U.S. economy is still struggling to dig out of. There was a widespread belief on Wall Street leading up to the housing market's collapse that subprime borrowers (i.e., people who might have trouble paying their mortgages) were a bottomless pit of growth and potential profits.
You and I now know how that turned out.
That sort of groupthink mentality about the inevitability of a Hillary Clinton presidency is in full force today....
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> There is a widespread belief that a Hillary Clinton presidency is a done deal.
Even if you’re a weatherman, you should stick our head out the window once in a while. Hillary can barely fill half a room. Trump fills stadiums.
Yeah. When obama got 100% of the vote in precincts with 130% turn-out, it was crickets all around.
Trump has a “serious chance” of winning? Yes, I would say so since he has taken the lead in today’s polls. Where do these people who write these idiot columns come from??
Exactly! Trump support is flying under their radar. Most of us won’t express it for fear of recrimination.
What bugs me about this most is the insistent belief that Hillary has always had this sewn up. Even the title alludes to that sentiment. I see it as psychological warfare from the Left.
Trump has been in this - strongly - from the very beginning, and the Left / mainstream media know it.
Is that a non-Sequitur?
Is that a non-Sequitur?
The author surely wanted to subliminally inoculate his unsuspecting readers. (Trump ...nazi /Campaign ...Kampf)
from under a rock ... most of'em
“.......they see every twist and turn in this election as more proof that Clinton is succeeding and Trump is failing.”.........
If they are “seeing” that, they are blind as a bat. More media hype attempting to suggest Clinton will win.
That stuff rolls off my back, frankly. I made my choice of who I am going to support and vote for and there will be no change to that. Trump all the way
Ya think?
pretty much so
“There is a serious chance that Clinton will have a physical or mental break down, or even die, before election day.”........
And more than likely NOT by her own choosing.
In all the time Mr. Trump has been in the public eye, ~40 years, not one person, of any color, ever accused Mr. Trump of being a racist. In fact the opposite is true: anyone in a position to know says Mr. Trump is colorblind and ethnicity-neutral. His company has never had any issues with EEOC.
So Donald Trump announces his candidacy and instantly, miraculously, he’s transformed from an average Joe on race relations into a raging cross between Hitler and Bull Connor. Yes, the democrat media is slimy.
And the kicker is, there are Republicans upon whom this works and some of them throw in with the NeverTrump Democrats. Yeah, crazy, I know.
State funded preschools, State funded kindergartens, State funded elementary schools, State funded middle schools, State funded high schools, and State funded universities.
This author’s propoganda doesn’t even need to roll off. He deserves nothing but ridicule and scorn.
If Hillary wins the US will be the Tax Slush fund for the World Government
This is ironic. Hillary’s boss, George Soros, is actually a real Nazi, confiscated Jewish property during the Holocaust and never felt any guilt over it!
Hillary’s mentor was none other than Senator Robert Byrd was a former Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan!
Got anything else that smears Trump but really implicates Hillary’s conniving, lying and highlights her evil alliances?
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