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Delusional or Deliberate? The great leftist disconnect from reality
American Thinker ^ | Andrea Widberg

Posted on 02/17/2021 5:18:23 AM PST by RoosterRedux

America's Democrat party leftists are disconnected from reality. All leftists believe the fantasy that the government can manage the economy. However, America’s leftists also believe, to name three big examples, that sexes can magically switch places, that ending our criminal justice system reduces crime, and that a country can simultaneously sustain an open border and a welfare state. On a smaller delusional scale, Press Secretary Jen Psaki revealed her disconnect from small business concerns, and the New York Times was horrified by “unfettered conversations.”

Jen Psaki, who serves as Joe Biden’s Press Secretary, is an excellent choice in many ways. She’s comfortable appearing uninformed and unintelligent before the media. She knows that they won’t call her out and apparently doesn’t care what the American people think. On Tuesday, she offered a perfect example of that latter point.

Psaki is hosting weekly video briefings during which she answers questions people have submitted via Twitter. At one minute and 21 seconds into the video below, Psaki reads out the question: “What is President Biden doing for my small business?”

By September 2020, nearly 100,000 small businesses had permanently closed across America. By November, just in New York and New Jersey, nearly one-third of all small businesses were gone. The lockdowns have decimated businesses in every Democrat-run state. Considering how important small businesses are to the economy, this is a deeply serious issue.

So what’s Psaki’s choice for the most important thing – the “first and foremost” thing – that Biden has done for small businesses? “He nominated a woman to lead the Small Business Administration”:

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; freespeech; itisreality; purge
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1 posted on 02/17/2021 5:18:23 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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Delusional or deliberate?

They are not mutually exclusive. The Left is the U.S. is both delusional and deliberate.

It is clear that they are intensely brainwashed...certainly by the media and academia. But, given the downright craziness of their views of reality, is there something more at work here?

Is there something in the water that affects only the Left? Have they been drugged into thinking they are in a parallel dimension?

High strangeness to say the least.

2 posted on 02/17/2021 5:25:10 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

Wow.

I’ll definitely forward this.


3 posted on 02/17/2021 5:26:44 AM PST by sauropod (#ImpeachMcConnell. #Resist. #NotMyPresident.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Beginnings of the coming strong delusion


4 posted on 02/17/2021 5:30:07 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: RoosterRedux

ßkmrk


5 posted on 02/17/2021 5:32:42 AM PST by ßuddaßudd ((>> M A G A << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: RoosterRedux
Incompetent or

intentional?

6 posted on 02/17/2021 5:42:21 AM PST by conservativeimage (I’d rather die a free spirit than enter into heaven without a soul.)
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Jen Psaki, Biden’s Press Secy, is an excellent choice in many ways:
<><> she's another Biden nitwit (probably a Biden cousin three times removed)
<><> cashing several govt paychecks, enrolled in several govt pension plans, filing reimbursement vouchers up the kazoo.
<><> Psaki’s comfortable appearing uninformed and unintelligent at her briefings WRT the Alleged President.
<><> She knows the obeisant media won’t call her out,
<><> She apparently doesn’t give a fig what the American people think.

CASE IN POINT: she offered a perfect example on video answering questions submitted via Twitter.
<><> Psaki reads out the question: “What is President Biden doing for my small business?”
<><> Psaki’s dimwitted response choice for the most important thing Biden has done for small businesses?

Drum roll please......“He nominated a woman to lead the Small Business Administration.”

Cue hysterical laughter here.

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REFERENCE By September 2020, nearly 100,000 small businesses had permanently closed across America. By November, just in New York and New Jersey, nearly one-third of all small businesses were gone. The lockdowns have decimated businesses in every Democrat-run state. Considering how important small businesses are to the economy, this is a deeply serious issue.

7 posted on 02/17/2021 5:51:16 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: RoosterRedux
It won't be long before this is tested in court.

Imagine a parent who disinherits a child he/she had previously been close to merely because they now perceived that child is evil due to his/her conservative political positions. They now believe the child is racist and hate-filled because he/she isn't Woke.

8 posted on 02/17/2021 5:52:59 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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Both

They look for delusionED people to promote delusional legislation on purpose

9 posted on 02/17/2021 5:56:18 AM PST by knarf (The Constitution protects the right to peaceably assemble, not to protest)
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To: RoosterRedux

I think free speech both creates and is a remedy to the problem in our country.

Lefties that I know are getting sucked down into a fundamentally bad place where they hit an emotional overload that is brought on by unvetted assumptions sold under the guise of being what intelligent and successful people believe. There does not appear to be much examination of these “facts” so much as there is a rush to jump on the bandwagon. Reasoning gets short circuited when some sort of emotional critical mass is achieved and these guys end up a hissing spitting incoherent mess. Insults and loaded language end up being what passes for discourse, and their fuse gets shorter and shorter. I think some sort of branding from hell is involved. It may be that they derive some part of their identity from associating themselves with fashionable ideas, so that any attack on the ideas is an attack on themselves personally.

There is a sense that agreeing with what they say is the only thing that matters at all. There is no nuance, just all or nothing. That doesn’t come from a respect for other people, that comes from somewhere else that I suspect to be tied up with ego. Its like a brand, buy into this idea and you will be intelligent/hip/sexy/virtuous. Ask too many questions and you risk shattering the illusion of being intelligent/hip/sexy/virtuous for buying into the “right” ideas.

I think the thing that can save us is a shift to the middle and for both polarized factions to lose the platforms they have been monopolizing for far too long. That might sound like using distraction instead of confronting the problem, but is it distraction for the driver of a car to pay attention to the road instead of bickering passengers? No it is not, and that is where I believe we are.


10 posted on 02/17/2021 6:13:13 AM PST by BlackAdderess (IMO Congress is a symptom whereas K Street is the problem)
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To: knarf; MinuteGal

Liberalism is a mental disease.


11 posted on 02/17/2021 6:53:10 AM PST by flaglady47 (Donald J.Trump, President in 2024, Leader of the new America First Party)
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To: RoosterRedux
Leftism is delusional and America cannot survive long on a trajectory so divorced from reality.

Lefturd loons are unable to or choose to not think. What is left is haze, daze, drift, ignorance, delusions, groupthink, emotionalism, whim worship, worship of big government, fantasies, mistakes, foolishness, evasion of reality, subjectivism, concrete-bound mentality, which leads to parasitism (looting & mooching)

12 posted on 02/17/2021 6:55:55 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Liz

Even worse, there are aid programs targeting some small businesses based on the owner’s race and/or gender.

In reality, they are simply replacing one middle class with another of their choosing. Those closed businesses often represent foreclosed homes and a decline in birthrate - getting younger people accustomed to the ideas that they will never own a private home or start a family.


13 posted on 02/17/2021 6:57:55 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: RoosterRedux

The Democrat Party is an organized crime syndicate.

Understand that, and everything makes sense.


14 posted on 02/17/2021 7:30:47 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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Not really.

I have a lot of good friends who have been brainwashed. They aren't part of this crime syndicate.

15 posted on 02/17/2021 8:22:31 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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A lot of gangsters wives told themselves that the money was clean, too.


16 posted on 02/17/2021 8:25:25 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: SaveFerris
That does appear to be the case.

And it has created a vast leadership vacuum of the sort that only someone like the AntiChrist can fill.

17 posted on 02/17/2021 8:29:34 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: blueunicorn6
Very true, but many of the Woke derive no financial benefit from it. Students for example.

That said, there is enormous pressure now in academia, business, and elsewhere to appear "woke" or risk losing employment.

18 posted on 02/17/2021 8:36:14 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

So, students support the Democrat Party because they want to pull turnips with their comrades at Turnip Commune #34?


19 posted on 02/17/2021 8:43:57 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: kearnyirish2

DEMS FAVORITE SPORT——picking winners and losers.


20 posted on 02/17/2021 8:54:04 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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