Empiricism is something I bank on

Posted on: August 19, 2024 at 10:07:01 CT

And day after day after day on this board I see all these dubious Musky claims. Trump's goal is - as Bannon put it - to "flood the zone", i.e. to put out so much bullsht disinformation that the consumer eventually does not know who to trust and begins thus to distrust everything. It's the Totalitarian rule book. This includes undermining long-established institutions like the judiciary system, the courts, the media. When the public doesn't know who or what to trust, it becomes susceptible to 'the strong man authoritarian". Trump with Bannon's assist is following the playbook. UNFORTUNATE FOR HIM is as historian Heather Cox Richardson points out in her recent work "Democracy Rising", Americans are pretty found of their Democratic Republic and when push comes to shove as it has before, the good guys - those favoring our Constitution and democratic republic show up. As is happening today.