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When A Society Lacks Conviction
American Thinker ^ | 1 Oct, 2024 | Allan J. Feifer

Posted on 10/01/2024 4:44:14 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Tyranny results, and there are too many indicators out there of a totalitarian police state in our midst.

It's an unfortunate reality that millions of Americans lack convictions founded in logic, reason, and history, instead relying on feelings as their primary touchstone.

They seek out misinformation sources that aligns with their emotional needs, codifying deep divisions in their political leanings.

The Kamaa Harris campaign's minimal information tactic reveals another divide we have glossed over too much: how to make sense of the information available. The Harris campaign is mining a vein they call 'joy,' which I call disinformation, curated especially for low-information, low-attention, and high-emotion voters.

Millions believe in moral relativism, and that thinking happy thoughts is somehow superior to critical thinking.

God help us survive these people.

When Harris is asked about the economy, various tested revolving messages would have you imagine yellow school buses and happy middle-class children blissfully walking towards a sun-filled tomorrow with Harris leading the parade.

SNIP

Sometimes, events overtake even our best-laid plans, and this was one of those days. Earlier that day, three events were reported that caused me to rethink my remarks:

- The new Labour government in Great Britain cracked down on supposed hate speech by anti-immigrant protesters, which saw over 400 Brits arrested for…" pushing harmful and hateful beliefs." The government is ramping up arrests of those with "extremist ideologies" in the latest wave of arrests. The crackdown includes those accused of misogynist views.

- At that exact moment, the newly installed Palestinian representative to the UN sponsored a non-binding resolution passed overwhelmingly 124-14 to strip Israel of the right to self-defense in Gaza and the West Bank, giving Israel a year to retreat to its pre-1967 borders.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: culture; freespeech; leftism; moralrelativism; policestate

1 posted on 10/01/2024 4:44:14 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

When the government schools have indoctrinated all of the children.


2 posted on 10/01/2024 4:44:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

With judicial reform, we will have more convictions.


3 posted on 10/01/2024 4:47:04 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (My decisions about people are based almost entirely on skin color. I learned this from Democrats.)
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


4 posted on 10/01/2024 4:59:16 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: MtnClimber
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

-Yeats

5 posted on 10/01/2024 5:00:37 AM PDT by caddie
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To: caddie

When Harris is asked about the economy, various tested revolving messages would have you imagine yellow school buses and happy middle-class children blissfully walking towards a sun-filled tomorrow with Harris leading the parade.

“Seventy six trombones led the big parade
With a hundred and ten cornets close at hand.
They were followed by rows and rows of the finest virtuosos,
the cream of ev’ry famous band.

“Seventy six trombones caught the morning sun,
With a hundred and ten cornets right behind.
There were more than a thousand reeds springing up like weeds,
there were horns of ev’ry shape and kind.

“There were copper bottom tympani in horse platoons,
thundering, thundering, all along the way.
Double bell euphoniums and big bassoons,
each bassoon having his big fat say.
There were fifty mounted cannon in the battery,
Thundering, thundering, louder than before.
Clarinets of eve’ry size and trumpeters who’d improvise
a full octave higher than the score.”


6 posted on 10/01/2024 5:14:10 AM PDT by alloysteel (God favors the side with the heaviest artillery.)
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To: MtnClimber

Good article with evidence of tyrannical representatives here and abroad, past and present. Thanks for posting. Against all tyrannical representatives foreign and domestic.


7 posted on 10/01/2024 5:23:31 AM PDT by PGalt ( Past Peak Civilization?)
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As religion and reason get ditched, millions now believe in “moral relativism”.......
and that “thinking happy thoughts” is somehow superior to critical thinking.

Harris’ minimal information tactic is another divide we have glossed over:
how to make sense of the information she makes available.

Harris is mining a vein they call ‘joy,’ curated especially
for low-information, low-attention, and high-emotion voters.


8 posted on 10/01/2024 5:25:16 AM PDT by Liz (Faith is believing what you cannot see; its reward is to see what you believe. St Augustine)
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“It’s an unfortunate reality that millions of Americans lack convictions founded in logic, reason, and history, instead relying on feelings as their primary touchstone.”

Well, I must confess. I’ve been relying on a feeling that has only increased, dramatically, over the past fifteen years. That feeling is anger. Anger at the godless cretins that have been busily working to destroy us from within.... ie the Democrats.


9 posted on 10/01/2024 5:36:57 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: MtnClimber

btt


10 posted on 10/01/2024 8:18:48 AM PDT by GailA (kamalaczar and herr waltz want to turn America into a commie country. Vote Trump.)
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