Soren wrote:How can you check voting results by district? I'd like to find out how disappointed I am in Plumsteadville.

Bucky wrote:I love me some Dilbert, but Scott Adams is trying desperately to make sense out of something that makes none.

Woody wrote:

Bucky wrote:I love me some Dilbert, but Scott Adams is trying desperately to make sense out of something that makes none.

i don't necessarily think so. his main point is that humans aren't rational actors and Trump knows how to persuade/manipulate/signal to/whatever you want to call it/ them

you can be dismissive of Trump because he's a cretin, but it's not entirely a depressing accident that he's crushing everyone

Bucky wrote:My point is that Scott thinks there's some sort of strategy or plan behind what he's doing. I believe it's his innate cretinism.

"I play to people's fantasies," he writes. "People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That's why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular."

Woody wrote:

Bucky wrote:My point is that Scott thinks there's some sort of strategy or plan behind what he's doing. I believe it's his innate cretinism.

I think (hope?) it's somewhere in between. Somewhere in there is still the guy (now clownish caricature) that wrote Art of the Deal

"I play to people's fantasies," he writes. "People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That's why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular."

Just terrific. The best

TenuredVulture wrote:http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/2016-president/

Hillary Clinton
Ex-Secretary of State

Key Primary Disadvantages

•Keeping Bill in check — and on the porch

Bucky wrote:My point is that Scott thinks there's some sort of strategy or plan behind what he's doing. I believe it's his innate cretinism.

swishnicholson wrote:

Woody wrote:

Bucky wrote:My point is that Scott thinks there's some sort of strategy or plan behind what he's doing. I believe it's his innate cretinism.

I think (hope?) it's somewhere in between. Somewhere in there is still the guy (now clownish caricature) that wrote Art of the Deal

"I play to people's fantasies," he writes. "People may not always think big themselves, but they can still get very excited by those who do. That's why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular."

Just terrific. The best

I'm on board with that. He's a guy who's built his whole career on selling the image of success-not only that he's a success, but everyone who takes part in what he's created has a little bit of that success rub off on them as well. People like being told that they deserve good stuff, and that they should revel in it, not apologize. The idea that this concept would work in politics is not very far-fetched, nor is the idea that Trump would consciously employ it. Actually the idea that he just stumbled into it is what strains belief.

That enough people would buy into to sustain not just a business model but a Presidential campaign is what's distressing.