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A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence. --Richard Dawkins I'm urging all my millennial peers and the young people coming up behind us to look for signs and symptoms of them being in a Democrat-induced delusion. Don't confuse the dream state of the socialists with any sort of reality. If you spot any signs of this politically terminal affliction within yourself, please seek help. --Charlie Kirk There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves. --David Hume
Why are so many people today lured into delusion? If we study the political scene, for one, we hear people who believe that Joe Biden is sometimes subject to stuttering, not that he is in the throes of dementia. That he and Donald Trump are about the same age, so age is irrelevant. That at least Joe Biden is trying to defend democracy, whereas Donald Trump is going to create an authoritarian regime. That Jill Biden will attest to Joe Biden’s hard work and condemn Donald Trump’s lack of character.
The Left continues to support Joe Biden for president in some polls, yet they criticize the lack of an immigration policy. They are suffering from the poor economy and inflation, and yet somehow, they see Joe Biden as separate from these situations. How is that possible?
Part of the explanation is that they are more afraid of Donald Trump than they are of Joe Biden. The media and the Left have done an excellent job of ramping up the propaganda for Biden and against Trump. Despite the damage that Biden has wreaked on this country, they fear that a Trump presidency will be worse. Although Trump showed no evidence of being a dictator in his first term and enacted many policies that benefited the economy, foreign relations, business, and manufacturing, people have been propagandized into fearing him.
My concern is that, even though the public has criticized Biden and his policies in the polls, they will still vote for him on November 5. If you ask them why, they’ll give you a simple answer.
Trump.
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I know that Richard Dawkins believes that there is no G-d, but it's interesting to see the many different ways that people can use the word, "delusion."
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Richard Dawkins believes inanimate matter reconfigured itself by an unknown process to become self-replicating. He's never seen that happen. Nobody else has either. He has no evidence of it happening. Clearly he is delusional.
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Because propaganda campaigns can be somewhat effective. 'Nothing to do with the actual issues.
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Arthur Koestler ('Darkness at Noon'), himself a former Communist, wrote about ideologically closed systems and the difficulty of escaping their gravitational pull. Link
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Also, a post I wrote 9 years ago: What Are The Fundamental Axioms of 'Progressivism? (I used that term because 'wokeness' was not yet in general use) Lots of responses in the comments.
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