How The Dems May Get Trumped By Reptile Brains
The Beatles sang “all you need is love.” Not if you want to win elections.
In politics, hate sells much better than love.
President Trump is in office because he is a masterful entertainer. He knows it’s all about attracting attention for the show, and a great way to do that is by creating a common enemy.
A boogie man gives a marketer an enormous advantage–– it generates fear. No one plays the ginning fear game better than Donald J. Trump.
It’s ironic that a man notorious for having problems with empathy understands humanity well enough to know that fear moves people like nothing else.
From the get-go, Trump was all about appealing to our reptile brains, the fight or flight instinct hard-wired in every human. It’s why we survived and are at the top of the food chain dining on all beneath us.
Trump is a master at creating fear––identifying enemies, stoking the flames of paranoia and instilling a sense of impending doom and victimhood. In some cases he’s right.
China certainly needs to be reigned in, but a trade war was extreme, especially when taxpayers must pay to subsidize those Americans who suffer because of his decision.
Be on the lookout soon for higher prices on consumer goods. Your wallet will be a casualty in this trade war.
But in most cases, Trump’s fearful histrionics are just hyperbole.
The Trump brand was built on lying, or, as he poetically calls it “truthful hyperbole.”
He claimed the Central American “caravan” contains Middle Eastern terrorists. Although this mob of misery escaping their dangerous homes is 1,000 miles away from the U.S., Trump is going to dispatch 800 American troops to the border for our protection.
FEAR!
But when a terrorist sends live pipe bombs through the U.S. postal system to two former presidents and ten other people who Trump regularly derides in speeches and tweets, he shows decisive action. He retweets Mike Pence, says we’ll find the person responsible, and blames the “fake news mainstream media” for dividing us.
Why he even toned down his bombastic dictatorial rhetoric at a political rally in Wisconsin! Give the well-behaved boy a cookie and sticker!
Back to the REAL CRISIS–– Trump dispatched the head of Homeland Security to the Mexican border for the slow-moving existential threat to us.
After all, the dangerous caravan may get here by Thanksgiving.
Speaking of Homeland Security, Americans are still removing our shoes at airport security because a guy once attempted to blow up a plane with a shoe bomb.
Oh, the irony!
Over the years, The Republican-led United States House of Representatives has considered 100 resolutions to repeal, deauthorize, defund, or otherwise destroy Obamacare.
But now, suddenly GOP candidates want to protect pre-existing conditions. Why?
They fear losing support because they oppose something their voters like. It’s the top issue in midterm polls.
Trump paints Democrats as angry mobs, luny radicals out to destroy democracy with open borders, unfettered tax increases, confiscating all guns, legalizing wacky tobacky, declaring war on Christmas, legislating for 24-hour drive-thru late-term abortions, and so on.
Democrats are the enemy.
The con man now openly attests to being a “nationalist.” Hmm, where have we heard that before?
Throughout all this cynical hypocrisy, the Democratic party seems hopelessly lost. Rudderless. Democrats bring throw pillows to a knife fight.
Republicans have talking points. Democrats speak in nuanced political correctness.
Republicans fall in line, always. Democrats inevitably splinter into factions of political philosophy.
The Republican world is always black and white, good versus evil. The Democratic world is a million shades of gray.
Republicans speak in simple, powerful language. Democrats get lost in rational reason, intellectual exploration, and verbose wonkiness.
In short, Republicans understand marketing. They adhere to the KISS formula. The GOP creates enemies, activating reptile brains, and promote salvation from the impending danger looming.
And because Trump is so masterful with his bullshit, people are afraid to call him out on it. He has been playing the refs since day one with his claim of 1.5 million people in his inaugural crowd, despite photos to the contrary.
He deems any criticism of his presidency “fake news,” and he has his state TV (Fox) cheering him on and amplifying his fear-inducing rants and lies.
We live in a dangerous time. People are selecting their reality. Play the game of switching from MSNBC to Fox News; you will wonder if we are living the same existence. The left also plays to high drama.
The fact is, the media loves Trump. This reality TV president is great for ratings and advertisers. As the shamed ex-chairman and CEO of CBS Les Moonves famously said about a Trump presidency, “It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.”
Trump never backs down; he only doubles down. He will never acknowledge he was born on third base, hell, born on the third base side of home plate. How many Americans became millionaires at age eight thanks to their daddy?
Vote on November 6. Support the GOP if you like and support Trump, feel great about his leadership style and are counting the money you made from his tax cut that added $1.6 trillion to our deficit. (Remember when the GOP was the party of fiscal responsibility?)
If you’re still waiting for your tax cut money to come trickling down from the fat cats, no worries–– now Donald promises a 10% middle-class tax cut!
We’ll pay for it later when we reign in wasteful entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security.
But if you believe America works best with checks and balances, vote for the D-team. They are inept marketers, political keystone kops, but they are our only safeguards in these troubling times.
For the record, I am an Independent. An independent who fears the damage Trump is doing to our nation. VOTE!
PS: Should I meet my demise at the business end of a bone saw, it’s been nice knowing you.