Kathy Shaidle writes: “I’ve started reading Luke Ford again, which is probably a mistake, but still. (He seems to be courting Steve Sailer now the way he used to court Denis Prager…)
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This isn’t precisely a ‘psychology’ related blog. Then again, it kinda is. The main thing is we can’t keep clogging the same two folders with Trump threads.
I can’t keep the “Luke Ford” thing straight in my head. Are there two of them? Or two Luke Ford sites? Anyway, one gained notoriety as the blog of a Midwestern Jewish-convert porn-movie reporter, but then suddenly he’d renounced smut and had this other, completely non-porn blog, while somebody else kept his old site running as by that time “Luke Ford” was practically an acronym for porn movies.
All irrelevant preamble; this rambles a bit, as most blogs do, but his summation of Why Trump via the example of Japan is simple, brilliant and as on-point as you’ll find anywhere.
Rubio reminds me of a tiny gay dog, yipping and yapping.
Posted on February 25, 2016 by Luke Ford
If Trump wins, the Republican elites (and the non-Republican elites) lose. They’re exposed.
* “Do you realize that If Bernie Sanders wins, it will be the first time that a Jewish family moved into public housing that was left vacant by a black family?”
* There is genuine vitriol in this race.
In earlier races, there were some cons who supported McCain, some who supported Romney, some who supported Perry, some who supported etc, etc, etc.
But there was no conviction, no fire, thus no real animus. Just polite going through the motions.
Romney supporters didn’t hate McCain supporters and vice versa.
Santorum supporters didn’t hate Huckabee supporters and vice versa.
But there is genuine hatred among the various factions.
Trump supporters really hate the other camps and vice versa.
But I don’t think it’s really populism vs populism, e.g. masses who support Trump vs masses who support Rubio.
While there are masses who support Rubio or others, they do so without passion.
In contrast, there is mass passion for Trump.
The real passion is between masses for Trump and ELITES for Rubio (and others).
Masses for Trump really hate the GOP elites, the elites who support Rubio(and others) really hate Trump masses.
I think the GOP elites fear Trump for professional reasons(as for other ones).
If Trump ignores all their advice and still wins, it will mean that all the experts have been phony and useless quacks who’ve been raking it in and holding power for no good reason at all.
* I live in Asia and when an Asian asks me about why Trump is popular, this is a way I use to explain it.
If you really want to understand Trump’s appeal, just look at the fact that 45% of US citizens don’t pay taxes because they don’t make enough due to jobs increasingly being low-level service work with many of the higher level jobs being taken by H1B.
Then combine it with this scenario – imagine the head of Japan announces:
1. Japan is opening its borders and plans to make the majority of the country Chinese and Muslims
2. Japanese privilege classes will begin in all schools to combat Japanese racism and the country will begin eliminating Japanese cultural events as non-inclusive
3. Japanese will pay more taxes to subsidize these workers who for the most part won’t be pay taxes
4. Crime and terrorism will go up but that is unavoidable and Xenophobic to mention
5. When any business employs a majority of Japanese ethnics, there will be a discussion of the “Japanese problem”
6. Preferences will be given in hiring to the newcomers
7. Any negative comments about what is going on will be clamped down on because if you don’t like this cultural cleansing you are Hitler.
Now, honestly ask yourself how the Japanese would react to this plan? Add those two together and it gives you an idea of why people are backing Trump.
After that, they all say they understand his appeal and would never let that type of scenario develop in their own country.
