Political Doublespeak, Truth, the Trumpism Phenomena and Our American Families

Our language, communications, and debates broken, the tyranny of the minority continues.

“You never share, why don’t you open up?”

I’ve been systematically shut down shut up and shut out for 35 years:

“The exhaustion of keeping quiet about narcissistic relationships” by Dr. Ramzni:

A brief history of America’s decline, beginning in the 1980s leads to our current situation.

About 25 years ago in 1996, a seemingly innocuous virus began to spread through my family and through the country. It started with an “entertainment” channel that mirrored the news of the day, a channel called Fox News. Not liking the reality that was given to them, they decided they could make their own alternative reality, joining Rush Limbaugh of AM talk radio who had first gone national in 1988.

Instead of relying on human logic, reason, and consensus building between people in forming consensus reality, they relied on guttural emotional reactions. They drew conclusions of “what must have happened” from their imaginations, then by brute force tried to push that worldview onto the population. They weren’t surveying people asking for their opinion. They were creating opinions, then repeated them as much and as long as necessary to create a narrative.

Unlike normal human beings who had for centuries gathered sensory data, built and tested hypothesis from that data, which they then developed into theories to arrive at conclusions, Fox News and right-wing media turned reality on its head. They started with an intuition, something they suspected to be true, then cherry picked bits of data, piecing together information into a collage, a framework of what must have happened if their conclusion were true.

They go through the process of building a map of the world backwards. For example, normal people start from the base units then build up: counting votes in districts, collecting and collating that data into larger groups, counties and cites, then collating that data at the state level to arrive at a mathematical total number of votes; then comparing the numbers to determine a winner. We progress in time forwards.

Instead, they start with the results and move backwards in time. The result? Their intuition says Trump will win. They seek to dissect from there which numbers are true and allowed and which numbers should be discarded to arrive at their forgone conclusion. They will find anomalies, no matter how circumspect, to discover the basic units, individual votes, that should be counted in order to arrive at that conclusion.

Much like in my family, some people are included and some excluded.

Two distinct and separate realities

Any anomaly, no matter how absurd, is given weight into justifying their methods because the conclusion, Trump will win, must be true. They operate under the false belief that those around them represent a statistically valid sample of the total. In other words, everyone they know supports Trump; therefore, he will be the obvious winner.

In statistics, this is known as sampling bias. It is one method that minority political parties use to manipulate their followers into thinking their party is more popular than it actually is.

If I were to poll my closest 100 family members going into the 2020 election, Trump comes out the obvious, overwhelming choice of 80% or more of the voters. Therefore, when they see him at 48%, their gut instinct, their intuition, tells them that the results must have been corrupted somehow.

Starting with that fallacy: the conclusion that the process must have been corrupted, they start their inquiry. This leads to another logical fallacy: confirmation bias. When your focus leads you to find what you expect to find. If I think 80% of cars are blue, when I make observations, I am more likely to note as significant blue cars while minimizing the significance of other colors.

Confirmation bias has found its way into our culture without being confronted for what it is in several ways, one of those ways is the 11:11 phenomenon.

To paraphrase, if you think you will see 11:11, you’ll begin to see it everywhere. You can try this experiment for yourself. Use a variety of numbers to ensure that you don’t fall for the fallacy. I used 23, 42, 66, 76, 62, etc., each for about 3–4 weeks each. Since we are all humans with human brains, you will discover the truth behind confirmation bias as I did: you see what you expect to see.

(Timeout: You’ve never done this, have you? That took 6 months! Dehypnotize yourself. Wrestle yourself free of that little confirmation bias programming in human brains. For the sanity of this country, and your own mental health, everyone needs a perspective readjustment. Please perform the above task on yourself for about 6 months. You’ll begin to see your own biases more clearly.)

Take up your cross and follow me: educating the unwilling to learn

It is frustrating and disturbing that these are things I thought we learned in school. Apparently, some people were not taught these things and use confirmation bias, sample bias, and many other faulty methods to arrive at false conclusions. Conclusions such as Trump really had more votes and won the election.

Making people aware of these anomalies requires educating them. Helping them to become aware, educating, is interpreted by them as you having an elitist attitude. They react defensively, as if you are calling them stupid. It shuts down the brain’s ability to receive input, making it resistant to the information it is receiving. Egos stop us from attuning with reality, hindering us in our quest to gain knowledge.

Some people, especially when approached from a combative point of view, react with hostility to being educated, especially by someone who they see as an elitist snob. The only people who can give them the information they need are those who do not have the information.

For me, it would have been necessary to share everything I learned in the 1980s and 1990s at the moment I learned it with my family to combat an event happening in the 2020s. They are hostile to that information now, in context, and opposed to hearing it, whereas they would have been open and receptive to it in the 1980s when I first learned it.

I’d have to start 35 years ago, 10 years before my family first started to shut me down and shut me out me to bring them up to speed. I’m not about to write out 35 years in detail. That volume of that work would certainly be larger than War and Peace. Such a fruitless endeavor would also be pointless in this soundbite, meme based culture. They wouldn’t read it. They wouldn’t be able to set aside their egos for even a spit-second to do so. They don’t read the short articles I post now before attacking the supposed content.

I’ve often wondered: how do you attack a bit of information without first reading that information? It’s a skill I don’t possess. If I am going to attack someone, especially someone I respect, I should first listen to what they have to say. Apparently, that isn’t necessary for my family, the internet, and others.

That just leads me, again, to the conclusion that they are disrespectful, arrogant, egotistical, and beyond hope of being reached. As they are fond of telling me to do repeatedly, they can go to Hell. They are unworthy of my time, the energy and effort it takes to reach them. Not to mention the heartaches and headaches I’ve already incurred just to be shut out, shut down, ignored, and mocked in spite already.

Trump, Fox News, AM talk radio, and the rabid religious right kidnapped my family, turning them into cult members. Cult members who systematically fuck with my life, some in ways which should be illegal.

But ruining my life hasn’t been enough for these demons. They have taken away everything and everyone I ever loved, leaving me alone. Alone in a world surrounded by strangers who for the most part agree with me regarding what is “true” in reality. Shunned and mocked, isolated and alone, I am punished for my sanity.

Give me a brief synopsis, in under 10 words and in 30-seconds or less, every event since the beginning of time.

It’s exhausting to tell the truth, as Dr. Ramani said in the video I included at the beginning. I have now written over 400 written works at an average of 4 type-written pages each, in the last two years. That’s 1,600 pages. I don’t think I have yet to begin to cover what needs to be covered to understand the traumas and other events I’ve been through, that this country and our families have been through.

I vaguely recall knowing that before I started writing a couple years ago. The sheer volume and impossibility of the task is overwhelming. It’s not helping that time is not my friend. Events keep happening and I now, like any writer, know that I can never catch up.

Fox News, Ben Shapiro, and various right-wing pundits have been using that notion against the population for years: they throw out selected bits of information, and do it at a rapid rate, to overwhelm many people’s ability to process the sheer amount of information.

It is very well known to me that it is impossible to win a debate with a right-wing Republican in the timeframe allotted. And I scored a 172 on the LSAT placing me in the 99th percentile. A position most likely to be able to beat back that smog dragon of darkness spewing from “the Right.”

They don’t feel the need to connect bits of information together. They don’t feel the need to give background information. They don’t think it’s necessary to give complete detailed answers to questions. They are not required to contextualize. The way they debate using emotionally rich words gives them a free pass.

They bombard the senses, overloading them with emotionally impactful words. They convince others of their perspective at the level of human instinct, or a gut reaction. Their style doesn’t explain ad-nauseam, like a boring Democrat, how they arrived at conclusion B from point A. You will never have the time, and likely lack all the information your opponent rebuts with, but aren’t required to supply themselves, to properly convince an audience of varied backgrounds of an objective truth. The emotionally impactful (or manipulative) argument will win with an audience not prepared for how to listen, and what information to listen for, in a debate.

Try watching political debates on television from the 1960s, and you’ll see what I’m talking about. Back then, both parties, consisting of educated, rational people, assumed that using logic and reasoning with well grounded accurate information was how one should go into a debate. It’s tragic to think of how that style has been lost and is ineffective today.

I’m beginning to feel like I’m meandering, losing focus of my original goal for writing this today. Another side effect of combating exhaustive, illogical, narcissistic, or under educated people. There’s just too many side topics to delve into, each of which deserves and needs extensive coverage in its own right.

This Pandora’s Box in the English language and the methods we use to process information as humans has been under attack ever since Ronald Reagan left office in 1989. That’s 31 years of Orwellian “new speak” coming from advertisers and our politicians.

Here, I’ve begun to unravel that thread, bringing to light the main cause of the extreme political divisiveness in this country, and the reason why we are being divided further, deeper, and faster than we have before. Donald Trump was instrumental in fracturing that deep rift in American communication further.

Here I offer a meandering path through to that nebulous mental and linguistic crack in reality dividing us into two separate cultures with two separate and distinct realities.