After two or three years of Fake News, what are journalists?
"News," particularly video news, is entertainment not informational. Watching progressive sheeple get shorn by these simpleton grifters is shocking. But the grifted sheep seem to want nothing more than to be shorn. The reason simpleton grifters like Rachel Maddow are so oft wrong is that they are clueless that intelligence is a trap. Maddow is undoubtedly a highly intelligent person, but her experience stack is so tiny that her intelligence runs roughshod over everything else. She is intelligent and, so, clever. That cleverness allows her to create mental arguments so tight she can believe idiotic things like Trump colluded with the Russians. Others like Jim Acosta are less intelligent but highly ignorant. I will save Acosta and his ilk for another day. We have seen this for years, perhaps the person who most personifies this is Paul Krugman. He has gone from an economist grounded in reality to a political pundit grounded in progressive dogma. His dogmatic beliefs overpower the simple economic axioms resulting in Krugman saying things which are not just wrong but idiotically wrong. So it is with Maddow. It is almost as if these people have a huge V-12 high-performance engine for, but it has been dropped into a soapbox racer. No amount of tweaking will permit this engine to push this wood and lawnmower wheeled crate to "amazing" speeds. The soapbox racer will disintegrate after reaching a few tens of miles per hour. Yet they persist. Maddow's/Krugman's dogmatic beliefs are so important they overpower their tiny experience stack to allow the creation of clever if idiotic arguments with which they confuse themselves into false belief. I am no great shakes but I was able to pass college, and then law school without any trouble and had no trouble passing two state bars on the first try each. But I chose a different route than these pundits. I worked heavy industrial work first as a paper mill hand, then later as a demolition labor crew chief. These jobs create personal common sense by making existential danger commonplace. One only walks away with all of one's fingers, toes, ears, and eyes if one subordinates the intelligence to experience. One must subordinate the intelligent, clever mind to the experiential mind or bad things will happen. Once that happens, personal common sense flowers. One can then look at situations and realize the hidden dangers or the potential for hidden dangers whether that situation is physical, or metaphysical. It is this personal common sense which people like Maddow and Krugman lack and which drives them to say and believe the idiotic. Again, I am no great shakes, but sufficient to get by without being ensnared by every false story or meme. I find those like Maddow and Krugman incomprehensible.
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