On Groupthink and how only socialism could bankrupt one of the world's wealthiest nations!2/22/2018 Hungry Venezuelan Workers Are Collapsing On the Job Progressives will say something about the problem being the "wrong people." Sure, it's always the wrong people. There is an adage, if every day you leave your house, and everyone you meet is an A-hole, you're the A-hole. Same applies to socialist experiments if, socialism always fails due to the "wrong people," it's not the wrong people it's the socialism. What we see in American right now, from the Sorors funded anti-gun rally, to the shrieking over transgenders and LGBTQIH8TU-BS, to the screams that the Russians are coming, the Russians are coming, all root in the fact that the fascist progressives feel their 50+ years of dominance slipping away. The Groupthink has become rigid and is beginning to delaminate the Democratic Party (as well as the establishment Republican Party). What is happening is Americans are deciding on the new direction that the nation will take for the next 80-100 years. Neither party is comfortable with the direction because it so undoubtedly will be away from the collectivist progressive model and the graft and corruption the political parties are addicted to. This was always going to be the case. The pendulum has swung far in the collectivist direction and will now begin to turn back to more individual liberty and personal responsibility driven classical liberalism. Yes, there are no guarantees but if we fail the entire American experiment is likely to founder, and perhaps even fail. I wrote a bit about the Democratic Party's Groupthink here: Global Warming Alarmism is Malignant Groupthink! I should elaborate more on the subject. More below. Symptoms of Groupthink
1. Illusion of invulnerability –Creates excessive optimism that encourages taking extreme risks. 2. Collective rationalization – Members discount warnings and do not reconsider their assumptions. 3. Belief in inherent morality – Members believe in the rightness of their cause and therefore ignore the ethical or moral consequences of their decisions. 4. Stereotyped views of out-groups – Negative views of “enemy” make effective responses to conflict seem unnecessary. 5. Direct pressure on dissenters – Members are under pressure not to express arguments against any of the group’s views. 6. Self-censorship – Doubts and deviations from the perceived group consensus are not expressed. 7. Illusion of unanimity – The majority view and judgments are assumed to be unanimous. 8. Self-appointed ‘mindguards’ – Members protect the group and the leader from information that is problematic or contradictory to the group’s cohesiveness, view, and/or decisions. Groupthink 1. The illusion of invulnerability - The Hillary ascension to the Presidency was so assured pollsters were giving it a 90-95 % chance during the last few weeks of the election cycle. Hillary was the invulnerable candidate, and the "I'm with Her" brigade was all in on the illusion of her invulnerability. The man who predicted 49 out of 50 states in 2012 has said who will win on Tuesday This was not unique. HuffPost Forecasts Hillary Clinton Will Win With 323 Electoral Votes 2. Collective rationalization - Warnings came from various sources including pollsters. The last two election cycles had proven the Democratic pollsters were incapable of accurately calling the races but any and all such warnings were discounted, and the adherents to Hillary would not reconsider their assumptions. Are Hillary Clinton’s Strong Poll Numbers Misleading? 3. The Belief in inherent morality - This can be seen on campus better than anywhere else. The moral smugness with which the violent, thugs on the left believe they have the right violently to shut down speech they disagree with is breathtaking. These thugs are to a person know-nothings who shout down any, and all who they have been told oppose them. These physical attacks and violence have been treated weakly by the universities. Steven Crowder and Ben Shapiro Infiltrate 'Antifa' Group, Capture Members Planning Political Violence Middlebury College was a particularly sad episode. A Violent Attack on Free Speech at Middlebury Similar events happened during the campaign with myriad attacks by Democratic Party thugs on people merely attending Trump rallies. Police seldom acted to control, stop, or arrest these violent criminals. Ugly, bloody scenes in San Jose as protesters attack Trump supporters outside rally 4. Stereotyped views of the out-groups - Trump supporters are called Nazis, fascists, and Brownshirts. When a gun crime occurs, they are smeared with pejoratives like "bloody murderer." Plays, movies, and books are appear demanding the murder of Republicans, the President and other out-group members like Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, and others. Yes, Donald Trump is a fascist. If he is, he is the only fascist ever to reduce regulations, reduce taxes, reduce government reach, and increase individual liberty. But the Groupthinkers never let reality intrude on their cultish beliefs. Even the Guardian can see this is idiotic! Trump is no fascist. He is a champion for the forgotten millions | John Daniel Davidson What makes this all so indefensible is that it is Antifa which is appearing in public with their faces covered, wearing black shirts, and militantly marching like the Nazi and Fascists of the 1920s-1940s. These behaviors do not occur in the out-groups. No, the alt-right is not right, it is just another left side fascist group, one which is the mirror image of the progressive left. They've lost Andrew Sullivan by becoming a troglodyte lefty hate tribe?!?! This video is instructive: What Is the Alt-Right? 5. Direct pressure on dissenters - The point of the nighttime "comedy" shows, the daytime talk shows like The View, Hollywood celebrities, and most of the news media reporting is to keep heavy pressure on any potential dissenters. These groups directly and aggressively attack both the out-group members and any of the Groupthink members showing signs of dissent. This was very apparent in the attempted lynching of Linsay Shepherd at Wilfred Laurier University. Lindsay Shepherd LIVE: Free Speech Battle with Laurier University and this video goes into great detail on what happened and the attempt by Laurier to pressure dissenter Linsay Shepherd. Deconstruction: The Lindsay Shepherd Affair 6. Self-Censorship - see the above videos about this issue as well. But it was the James Damore memo at Google which displays this issue so brilliantly. Survey: Widespread Fear Amongst Conservatives at Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple... James is a mild-mannered young man, more on him and the memo here: 5 Things to Know About James Damore's Google Manifesto Here is a lengthy interview with James by Dave Rubin. Fired Google Engineer James Damore (Live Interview) 7. Illusion of Unanimity - I noticed over the last four election cycles a change in the Democratic Party. Back in the days when Kerry and Gore were running for President, they both acted like the average man. Kerry went windsurfing, duck hunting, and engaged in "manly things." He was targeting the Average Joe for his votes. Kerry on Hunting Photo-Op to Help Image What a prat. While Obama did not act this way, he was not antagonistic to the Average Joe in public. His antagonism only came out in private donor soirees where he would call Republicans and the average guy, "bitter clingers" and worse. Obama angers midwest voters with guns and religion remark Obama was an odious man and a worse President. Still, the antagonism was only out in private. Hillary finally moved the Democratic Party out of the rubric that the Democrats needed the average American voter, going all in on the wealthiest of the upper-middle class, the upper class, the poverty class, and the identity groups. Hillary pulled no punches and called half of middle Americans, a "'basket of deplorable". Speaking at a fundraiser, she said they were "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic - you name it.'" 8. The mindguards - Again we need to point to the news media, pollsters, Hollywood, the nighttime comics, and daytime talk shows, plus we should add in the sycophants that Hillary et al. gird themselves with like Donna Brazille, and her coterie. Hillary’s coterie of anti-Semites This is ugly but not new. Hillary Clinton's coterie of 'attack dog' aides has Obama's team worried And still, Hillary has a cult surrounding her. The Cult of Hillary Clinton and the Zombies who Continue to Keep Her Alive… These are the consequences of Groupthink: a) incomplete survey of alternatives b) incomplete survey of objectives c) failure to examine risks of preferred choice d) failure to reappraise initially rejected alternatives e) poor information search f) selective bias in processing information at hand g) failure to work out contingency plans h) low probability of successful outcome Groupthink It is unsurprising that Hillary lost, badly. What is surprising is that the Democratic Party has done nothing to alter the Groupthink. Yes, it will focus on different people, but it will be the same. The world is changing around us very quickly; the Democrats don't seem to be able to process that change or show any willingness to engage it. The same can be said for the establishment Republicans. I could have prepared a similar analysis for them, but they are Dead-Enders so, why bother?!!! America needs a vibrant two party system. But that is not available now. The progressives need to get their house in order and understand that America is moving in a new direction which is permanently away from progressivism. If the progressive left wants to participate, it will need to begin to seriously change its collectivist ways and start to find a new more centrist path to follow. If it does not, it will be unlikely to participate in the shift to the new political direction.
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