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Re: coldjoint (Post 6980615) The man you speak of is entitled to his opinion.

There are a lot of people who think God is fed up with man's bullshit.

Key to Trump’s popularity has been a rhetorical strategy identified in 1951 by political philosopher Eric Hoffer in a book called The True Believer. Hoffer noted that demagogues needed a disaffected population whose members felt they had lost the power they previously held, that they had been displaced either religiously, economically, culturally, or politically. Such people were willing to follow a leader who promised to return them to their former positions of prominence and thus to make the nation great again. But to cement their loyalty, the leader had to give them someone to hate. Who that was didn’t really matter: the group simply had to be blamed for all the troubles the leader’s supporters were suffering.

Heather Cox Richardson

Leftist Professor’s Bias Gets in the Way of Her CNBC-Style Conservative Critique

The New York Times, in reviewing her book, slammed her for not “check[ing] her politics at the door,” showing the inherent bias of her work. The Washington Post also said that Richardson, “overstates her case,” and “ultimately finds herself caught in the partisan trap, blaming Republicans — albeit only the conservative ones — for ruining the economy, fomenting racism, damaging American democracy and betraying their progressive roots".

Notice how this character, who winces when correctly identified and labeled as a shill, lies persistently.

The CDC designed a flawed test for COVID-19, then took weeks to figure out a fix so state and local labs could use it.

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As the highly infectious coronavirus jumped from China to country after country in January and February, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lost valuable weeks that could have been used to track its possible spread in the United States because it insisted upon devising its own test.

The federal agency shunned the World Health Organization test guidelines used by other countries and set out to create a more complicated test of its own that could identify a range of similar viruses. But when it was sent to labs across the country in the first week of February, it didn’t work as expected. The CDC test correctly identified COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. But in all but a handful of state labs, it falsely flagged the presence of the other viruses in harmless samples.

Note as well how this character is so quick to play the injured party ("someone used an ad hominem against me <sob, sob>")

and yet can hardly get through a post without inventing strawmen who cheer at the deaths of USAmericans and then describing them as "progressives".

Did I say that?

God was already in it.

Answer the question

why "God's" opinion is being prioritized

Both rags the Left depend on say she was full of **** just five years ago.

In any case, none of this in any way detracts from the discussion about Eric Hoffer, and his insights into demagoguery remain pertinent.

was "full of ****".

Shirer had a segment of his inspection of Hitler and Fascism that dealt with "the creation of an enemy" as a necessity for the gradual rise of a fascist state.

He was guilty.

He was guilty.

Report: Fox News is worried about legal action after misleading viewers about coronavirus
Vanity Fair's Gabe Sherman: Fox News is concerned their downplaying of Coronavirus exposes them “to potential legal action” from misled viewers

...When I've been talking to Fox insiders over the last few days, there's a real concern inside the network that their early downplaying of the coronavirus actually exposes Fox News to potential legal action by viewers who maybe were misled and actually have died from this. I've heard Trish Regan's being taken off the air is, you know, reflective of this concern that Fox News is in big trouble by downplaying this virus and The New York Times reported days ago that the Murdoch family was privately taking the coronavirus seriously. The Murdochs, of course, own Fox News. So, they were taken personal steps to protect themselves while anchors like Trish Regan and Sean Hannity were telling viewers that it's a hoax and putting themselves in potentially mortal danger. So I think this is a case where Fox's coverage, if it actually winds up being proved that people died because of it, this is a new terrain in terms of Fox being possibly held liable for their actions.

Michael R. Bromwich
@mrbromwich
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Fox is right to be concerned. Very concerned. This could be a legal bloodbath. Discovery will undoubtedly show that its personnel were putting out falsely comforting information it knew to be false and misleading in order to sync up with WH messaging.

“to potential legal action”

entire low key incompetent US response to the virus?

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Shirer had a segment of his inspection of Hitler and Fascism that dealt with "the creation of an enemy" as a necessity for the gradual rise of a fascist state.

I did not remember that. Mind you, I read it somewhere around 1970. But it is almost obvious, isn't it? And Orwell got it right too.