Has Trump retrained Americans to think everything is true till proven false?

[UnseenParticipant]

To me, this seems to be the case. It certainly seems to be the way HE thinks, which allows him to buy in to wild and crazy conspiracy theories.

[.Spectator]

I think for one people are terrified to challenge him.

Two: people who do challenge him “pay” for it.

Three: He’s figured out how to manipulate under the facade that he “supports” the insistent, callously rotten agenda Republicans have been SO desperate to enforce – particularly Roe v Wade…when the truth is his sole goal in becoming President was to make himself wealthier. He could give a rip about anything else. He just knows how to bully people into “loyalty” (i.e. Lie for him).

[JadeBlackOliveParticipant]

That poor excuse for a human being is an arrogant, narcissistic, blowhard, who buys everything including loyalty, or to make things ”go away”.

Its pretty bad when most of our Canadian news is about him!

It would be good if he’d come to BC & fight our wildfires for 3 months, & still say global warming is fake!!!

46000 of us are evacuated, with 9000 in the city where we’re staying.

He knows nothing about real life!

 

[Reg the Fronkey FarmerModerator]

Hi Unseen, good to err….see you again.  A black cat moved into my house a few years back and I “christened” it “You’re one of them” to freak out my neighbors at night when I call it in. You can’t trust those people. I am sure they are have my house wire tapped.  There is no evidence for this but they gotta be up to something, right?

I sent the cat “over the wall” to check them out but I think they are bribing it with food scraps so now it just sleeps all day. I have now changed its name to “Thought and Prayers” because it does absolutely nothing useful. I don’t trust it no more but someday it may be great again.

 

Hey JadeBlackOlive, were you taking photos in my house? You avatar looks suspiciously familiar.

[physeterParticipant]

“Has Trump retrained Americans to think everything is true till proven false?”

What a silly question. Trump has been in politics for what, 10 years or less? FAITH has been attacking reason and teaching people to twist their logic in knots in order to believe what they want to believe for at least 2,000 years.

How many apologetics arguments do you know that require Americans (or anyone) to think something is true unless it can be proven false? How many faith arguments have you heard where the preacher insists because there’s the slight chance that something might be possible, we must accept it as fact until it’s PROVEN false? How many people in this once-great nation of America have been trained since they were children to don’t think too hard, don’t question what they’re told? Trained since children that no matter what the “scientists” say, WE know better and it’s okay to just disbelieve all those pesky facts?

You think it’s a coincidence that the faith-based people are the ones who put Trump over the top to win the votes?

Americans have been trained by faith for the last 200 years to accept truths based on what they want to be true, not on what real life is telling them. Trump came along and played right into that blind spot.

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