[ExI] Evolutionary psychology and recent selection was trump

[William Flynn Wallace]

>  I didn't predict the rise of Donald Trump. Did you??  Keith or John

One writer said that the Repub people, the base, elected this current group
to go to DC and do something about Obamacare and so forth and they didn't
do that or much of anything else except stop Obama when they could.  Many
nonRepubs were outraged by this obstructionism, as was I, and maybe some
Repubs were too.

So the old saw holds:  "Throw the bastards out!"  Elect someone not in the
pale of the party.  I'll bet a lot of people saw someone like Trump coming;
someone who is familiar with the rise of George Wallace, Huey and Earl
Long, and others.  We know Europe is in a spasm of far right ideology, with
extremely notable exceptions, like the Muslim mayor of London.

Another line is this:  Trump shows as a strong man, full of himself,
radical opinions - above all someone different from the party mold.  I'll
bet a lot of his followers do not care what his foreign policies are.
Doing a lot of bombing appeals to many.

Otherwise, I just dunno.  If anyone else has advocated the things he has,
he would have been laughed out of the race.  I'll bet some of us have been
wondering why he hasn't.

This is it for me - no more politics till after the election.

bill w

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 1:11 PM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> snip
>
> >>> Nobody knows why but every once in a while highly civilized countries
> go
> >>> crazy,
> >>
> >>
> >> ?> ?
> >> I do.
> >>
> >
> >  I didn't predict the rise of Donald Trump. Did you??
>
> Not Trump particularly, but the kind of potential leader he is and the
> circumstances where a band/tribe/nation would follow him.  Gave
> several historical examples in my writings over the years, Hitler, Pol
> Pot, the guy who touched off the Rwanda killings.  Some of the early
> observations go clear back in the late 80s.
>
> I could go over the details again here, but just about nobody takes
> this seriously.  And frankly if a few or even a lot of people did take
> it seriously, what could they do?  That's the most frustrating aspect
> of EP, you can understand the problems and what it would take to fix
> them, nicely even, but I, at least, can't figure out how anyone up to
> and including the superpowers could do a damn thing about them.
>
> . . . . that's not entirely true.  Have you ever had a smallpox
> vaccination?
>
> Keith
> PS.  When I was in jail and totally pissed off, I wrote this up as a
> piece of fiction.  A little chunk of it, "Tunnel of Love," was up on
> the net for something like 9 years, but the entire website went down
> and it was not backed up on the internet archive so it might be lost.
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