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Jordan Peterson Clashes w/ Maher Panel About Political Divide:
Mediaite ^ | Joseph A. Wulfsohn |

Posted on 04/23/2018 6:01:02 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe

“It looks to me, from an outsider’s perspective, your country is polarizing in a way that’s not good and that, you know, people are going after Trump and I understand that,” Peterson elaborated, “but there’s all these people that elected him and identify with him and they’re not taking this well… You might not think they’re very bright and all of that… but you know, you need to have respect for the rest of your citizens and if your country is going to pull itself apart and as you really see this happening from an outsider’s perspective.”

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billmaher; jordanpeterson; mediawingofthednc; michaelavenatti; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; stephanieclifford; stormydaniels
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I saw this clip on Fox this morning. Petersin makes a lot of sense. Although the other panelists did acknowledge Peterson's point, on Fox and Friends this morning Peterson stated that they avoided the issue. That's because, IMHO, at the heart of it Trump is a proxy for the disdain those people have for a sizeable part of the peoplr of the United States
1 posted on 04/23/2018 6:01:02 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: Tench_Coxe

The Media Elite is very out of touch.

Peterson is well worth a listen.


2 posted on 04/23/2018 6:04:00 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Tench_Coxe

So True....

“at the heart of it, Trump is a proxy for the disdain those people have for a sizeable part of the people of the United States.”


3 posted on 04/23/2018 6:04:58 AM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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To: Tench_Coxe

“If we can’t protect a false view of reality, we’ll lose credibility.”

This actually makes sense to the MSM-Democrats.


4 posted on 04/23/2018 6:06:59 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Tench_Coxe

Wearing a Hillary Pin and having a Hillary bumper sticker does not increase your IQ to a genius level. Neither does a Trump pin or bumper sticker make you an imbecile. When you sulk about an election, and don’t move on, is it not a sign of immaturity? 2016, the year of the vintage whine!


5 posted on 04/23/2018 6:08:17 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Damn Tag line, fouled up again, thanks cursor.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Darn, that should have been “project.” Autocorrect strikes again.


6 posted on 04/23/2018 6:08:38 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Tench_Coxe

Could there be anything with more gravitas and sincerity than a panel assembled by Bill Maher?


7 posted on 04/23/2018 6:10:26 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

The interview was ruined by having an @sshole politician and two left wing media talking heads along with Peterson

Peterson was making fairy complex, logical points, and the others were simply spewing cliches.


8 posted on 04/23/2018 6:17:35 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Beautiful_Gracious_Skies

Maher knows that the 63 million supporters of Pres. Trump will not stand for his assassination, whether political or physical, as Prof. Petersen implied. The rest of the panel was clueless. When the civil war would erupt, they would be shocked and defenseless.


9 posted on 04/23/2018 6:18:20 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: ClearCase_guy; Tench_Coxe; All

>>Peterson is well worth a listen.

Peterson is well worth hours of listening, and has an appropriate YouTube library for that. And his new book is very worthwhile as well.

Postmodernism and Cultural Marxism (a favorite to get you started on JBP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLoG9zBvvLQ

Jordan B Peterson YouTube main page
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL_f53ZEJxp8TtlOkHwMV9Q

Jordan B Peterson web site
https://jordanbpeterson.com/


10 posted on 04/23/2018 6:30:55 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: PGR88

I’m a regular viewer of Peterson on Youtube, and will admit that he’s probably the one intellectual guy who take a very complex mess, and explain it in less than 3 minutes. I would strongly recommend twenty minutes a week of his lectures or discussions.

On this Maher group (I watched the whole talk), he put them to the problem of what happens when they finally impeach Trump and assume that Trump voters won’t react. I would suggest that you’d see an entire decade of ‘bridge-burning’ by the Trump voters, with about half of the GOP in the House/Senate readily dismissed, and impeachment demanded upon the next Democratic President. It would be a very unwise thing to turn this group into a revengeful situation.


11 posted on 04/23/2018 6:37:43 AM PDT by pepsionice
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This clip was both sad and infuriating to me. It makes it entirely clear that the left is brainwashed, hateful, and not open to reason. They spout groupthink phrases that are inflammatory and wrong, but do it with such confidence in their superiority and possession of the facts that they sound like they're citing mathematical proofs.

Maher calls Trump a wannabe dictator, when in reality it was Obama who used executive privilege like a dictator, and who uttered the phrases ‘we won’, and ‘Republicans can come along for the ride - but they're going to have to sit in the back of the bus’. They ignore Hillary having FBI files on political adversaries, threatening women who might derail her husbands political success - and thus hers, and all the other deceitful, unethical, and illegal escapades about which most here are aware.

It sickens me. In the end, this is driven by a narrative sold to people by the academic establishment in the US - which has been entirely co-opted. That narrative is that the groupthink that people are indoctrinated with under the guise of higher education is the only truth, and that those who don't ascribe to this groupthink are stupid, or uneducated, or bigoted, or ‘deplorables’. There is no room for those who don't embrace the groupthink, no room for those who would vote differently than the groupthink approves of, and definitely no room for those who speak with a different voice.

12 posted on 04/23/2018 6:42:04 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Tench_Coxe

The Maher panel in that video exemplifies how the left lives in a separate, hermetically-sealed, propagandist universe.


13 posted on 04/23/2018 6:50:47 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

A recent liberal post read:
Don’t think that we’ll forgive you for Trump!


14 posted on 04/23/2018 6:52:09 AM PDT by griswold3 (Just another unlicensed nonconformist in am dangerous Liberal world.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Reality 101:
Leftists continue believing in their religious cult of Marxism...despite the history leftism always fails economically, moprally & culturally.

By Einstein’s definition, that is insane stupidity.

CONCLUSION: Leftists are insanely stupid.


15 posted on 04/23/2018 6:55:21 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: neverevergiveup

Makes Obama’s statements more poignant.

“If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, ‘We’re gonna punish our enemies, and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us’ -’

And ‘Voting is the best revenge’

You don’t have to be a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows.


16 posted on 04/23/2018 7:04:11 AM PDT by griswold3 (Just another unlicensed nonconformist in am dangerous Liberal world.)
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To: FreedomPoster

Thank you for posting those links.


17 posted on 04/23/2018 7:11:13 AM PDT by Dartoid
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To: Tench_Coxe

take away homosexuality in all it’s derivatives, abortion, immigration and redistributing producers income to non producers and we would all love each other..............

.......we are POLARIZED permanently. This problem (these differences of fundamental beliefs) cannot be fixed.


18 posted on 04/23/2018 7:12:22 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: Tench_Coxe

Well I have tremendous respect for Jordan Peterson, but I thought he was rather weak when surrounded by all the leftists on the panel. He made absolutely no strong case to convert anyone’s thinking. Instead he probably strengthened their resolve that they are correct.


19 posted on 04/23/2018 7:13:46 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: newfreep
The Ancient Greeks had a saying:
Those whom the Gods wish to destroy, they first make crazy."
20 posted on 04/23/2018 7:19:43 AM PDT by expat2
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