Posted on 09/03/2016 6:31:30 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
There is a widespread belief that a Hillary Clinton presidency is a done deal.
Hillary Clinton supporters and a large portion of the mainstream news media have been convinced for months that Clinton simply cannot lose to Donald Trump under any circumstances. As a result, they see every twist and turn in this election as more proof that Clinton is succeeding and Trump is failing.
Here's a little World War II reminder of why that's a very dangerous mentality: In the weeks leading up to December 16, 1944, intelligence had been picking up evidence that the German army was planning a major counteroffensive in the Ardennes Forest. But the top generals in the Pentagon and in London dismissed the hard evidence right in front of them. You see, they had already determined and convinced themselves months before that Hitler's military machine didn't have any lethal attacks left in it. No amount of contradictory data were going to convince them otherwise. The result was what became known in the history books as "The Battle of the Bulge," a massive German offensive that caught the Allies by surprise and left 19,000 American troops dead and 56,000 more injured. It's also probably the most deadly example of confirmation bias in American history.
That groupthink mentality is also what led to the 2008 financial crisis that the U.S. economy is still struggling to dig out of. There was a widespread belief on Wall Street leading up to the housing market's collapse that subprime borrowers (i.e., people who might have trouble paying their mortgages) were a bottomless pit of growth and potential profits.
You and I now know how that turned out.
That sort of groupthink mentality about the inevitability of a Hillary Clinton presidency is in full force today....
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There’s a real good chance Hillary is languishing in her sickbed this morning, too.
I see - Trump is on party with the Nazis.
No other better examples?
Like the muslim ottomans losing at Vienna when all pointed to islam conquering the west?
In psychological circles that’s known as “cop-out thinking.”
B/C if they really believed the evidence at hand, they’d have to do s-o-m-e-t-h-i-n-g.
> Hillary Clinton supporters and a large portion of the mainstream news media
“And”? They are the same people.
Most of the men in the German Army were never Nazi Party members.
Whistling past the graveyard is what the Clinton folks are doing. Clinton is tied to the railroad tracks and the Trump express is bearing down. Will she escape in time? God willing the train will run over her and shred her legacy down a mile of bloody tracks.
And in May 1945 there wasn’t a single Nazi in Germany and everybody in France was in “The Resistance! Vive La France!”
Great analogy. Love it!
“I see - Trump is on party with the Nazis.”
The subtlety of the author’s analogy is overwhelming.
Based on that logic, the last pope was a Nazi.
Yep..... mos def! :0)
There is a serious chance that Clinton will have a physical or mental break down, or even die, before election day.
did he mean “parity?”
The media and the DC political class have no clue how angry the American electorate is
Hee hee. Liberal paranoia seeps in at every turn.
It might not be just a flesh wound after all.
Well when (seems 99% sure to me) Donald does walk away with America’s votes, Hillary and the Rats can then pull out the sick excuse (pun intended). Saying that if only Hillary had been a bit more hale and hearty, she’d have surely trounced that dastardly Donald.
How about Reagan Carter?
Oh yeah can’t do that
The FBI documents dump, which paint her and her staff as totally clueless and unconcerned about communications security. These documents also raise the issue of Clinton’s health. It is part of the “death by a thousand cuts” which she might be going thru. Wikileaks has said that it has much more damaging info, which will be released sometime prior to the first debate.
For all the good that did the allies....they still fought
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