George, it’s as though the people hurting are blindfolded because they’ve been told all their lives to revere rich people as having more intelligence and being more hard-working than the average person. In the book “Moral Politics”, George Lakoff verbalizes the idea that helping the downtrodden further weakens them by making them depende…
George, it’s as though the people hurting are blindfolded because they’ve been told all their lives to revere rich people as having more intelligence and being more hard-working than the average person. In the book “Moral Politics”, George Lakoff verbalizes the idea that helping the downtrodden further weakens them by making them dependent on assistance. I well remember seeing children being told to refuse recovery supplies after a tornado because “we don’t take government handouts, we can survive without their help”. Far too often, the only thing that the poor white people were taught that they could be proud of were: 1) they weren’t “on the government dole” and 2) they weren’t black.
So true. And I suspect Dr. Lakoff would say it's the frame of the rugged individualist cowboy versus the thought of a community (or on a grander scale -a society).
It's why so many are conned by the incompetent narcissist (Musk and Trump both fit). They believe them to be icons of success when the reality is, they have just exploited other people throughout their time on earth. They are each textbook examples of the worst of American society.
George, my personal experience with a very “successful” businessperson was watching them pretend friendship with colleagues only to turn on them to advance in the organization while relishing sneaky, seemingly gratuitous attacks on their colleagues’ self worth.
Sad that the term "successful businessman" is used for tfg - you know the rich successful "businessman" who had how many bankruptcies? I believe it was 4 or 6? Now one I can understand - you learn from it, but as many as fingers on my hand causes me to believe that this guy "is no businessman" - successful or otherwise.
And then we come to the WH meeting with Russians where he handed over classified intelligence? Again with an Australian "billionaire"? How many little incidents like this are we to forgive? Plus the many that we likely are unaware of.
George, it’s as though the people hurting are blindfolded because they’ve been told all their lives to revere rich people as having more intelligence and being more hard-working than the average person. In the book “Moral Politics”, George Lakoff verbalizes the idea that helping the downtrodden further weakens them by making them dependent on assistance. I well remember seeing children being told to refuse recovery supplies after a tornado because “we don’t take government handouts, we can survive without their help”. Far too often, the only thing that the poor white people were taught that they could be proud of were: 1) they weren’t “on the government dole” and 2) they weren’t black.
So true. And I suspect Dr. Lakoff would say it's the frame of the rugged individualist cowboy versus the thought of a community (or on a grander scale -a society).
It's why so many are conned by the incompetent narcissist (Musk and Trump both fit). They believe them to be icons of success when the reality is, they have just exploited other people throughout their time on earth. They are each textbook examples of the worst of American society.
George, my personal experience with a very “successful” businessperson was watching them pretend friendship with colleagues only to turn on them to advance in the organization while relishing sneaky, seemingly gratuitous attacks on their colleagues’ self worth.
Sad that the term "successful businessman" is used for tfg - you know the rich successful "businessman" who had how many bankruptcies? I believe it was 4 or 6? Now one I can understand - you learn from it, but as many as fingers on my hand causes me to believe that this guy "is no businessman" - successful or otherwise.
And then we come to the WH meeting with Russians where he handed over classified intelligence? Again with an Australian "billionaire"? How many little incidents like this are we to forgive? Plus the many that we likely are unaware of.