Posted on 08/07/2018 5:16:02 PM PDT by WXRGina
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They’re deranged because they’ve set themselves up in opposition to reality.
They’ve been almost completely protected in an alternate reality cocoon built for them by the MSM and the academic world. Everyone played along, even supposed “Republicans” like the Bushes.
Now they’ve got to deal with a President who has the bully pulpit, knows how to use it, and doesn’t give two excrements about their alternate reality.
That situation would derange anyone. It’s like The Truman Show, or Pleasantville, with them as the victims.
“As with all of his pictures, you’ll applaud at the end.”
I’m sorry, but unless some cast and crew are present, applauding a movie seems to me unutterably stupid.
HAHAHAHA!!! I take it you've never been to one of his pictures in a theater.
Well-said, Tom.
Hear, hear!
“I take it you’ve never been to one of his pictures in a theater.”
I wouldn’t applaud a film of the Last Supper with the Original Cast, unless they were present.
If asked to say something negative about it, my response would be that there was nothing new.
Since my youth, I have been a fanatical student of history and will state on my own authority that every fact presented in the movie was not only accurate, but Dinesh was rather cautious and may have actually pulled his punches; I would have gone much further on several points.
For instance, he stated that some SA members (Nazi Brown-shirts) were homosexuals. In reality, the SA was a gay army where it was practically impossible to be promoted without practicing sodomy.
You're right that the movie won't convince Democrats. At this stage of my life, I couldn't care less.
“They’re deranged because they’ve set themselves up in opposition to reality.”
I see it as 180 degrees off from that. They are set up in opposition to reality *because* they’re deranged.
This is why I am sick to death of those who keep demanding we just win by debate or whatever other known loser tactic/strategy.
These people are in an entirely different mind-world. Heck, even the meaning of words used in discussions aren’t the same between their delusional world and our real world.
I think maybe the truly mentally-ill members of the Left is less than a majority; maybe one-quarter, maybe one-third.
Of course, it's hard to tell because the definition of mental illness is constantly changing and subdividing. People with schizoaffective disorder, people on the Asperger's spectrum, people who suffer from clinical depression, mostly identify as "liberals" to the extent that they have any political interest, I have no doubt.
Imo, the entire leftist ideology demands mental dysfunction as an initiator.
There is no relation of cause to effect anywhere in that ideology.
Yes, I pretty much caught your cynicism in your first comment.
You are spot on.
the slurs of racist, homophobe, etc. are meant to shut down debate.
PC is meant to shut down debate.
the social media censorship is to shut down debate.
in a debate, the LEFT loses.
debating the LEFT is like playing chess with a pigeon.
Can we force them into a debate?
I believe we can if there is more competition in the media market. To help that happen, the first step is to stop funding LEFT. Unplug from the LEFT MEDIA CARTEL.
It is that simple and a free market solution. It is not about boycotting, it is about freedom.
Its a free country, aint it? Use to be a rhetorical question, now, not so much.
Imo, honest debate is not only not possible, it’s counter productive.
You’ll never get a leftist to stick to actual true facts. Therefore there’s never going to be any common ground from which to debate.
It’s counter productive because it’s not only a waste of time, it leads in all instances to defeat by argument fatigue for the non-left.
There is no “coming together” possible with the left.
“cynicism”
Declining to applaud people who can’t hear it is not cynicism; it is an intelligence test.
These people are in an entirely different mind-world. Heck, even the meaning of words used in discussions aren’t the same between their delusional world and our real world.
They change the meaning of words at will in an attempt to change reality.
The applauding in a theater is not for the performers.
It is an affirmation of response by the audience. It is for and by the audience.
Worse even than I thought.
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