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Originally Posted by Atlictoatl
I may be swinging in the other paranoid direction, but I personally see the hand of deliberation in these internet-initiated and -comported movements of mass paranoid delusion. I strongly suspect that there are groups of people who put this stuff out there and fan the flames of it, in order to keep the easily deluded whipped up into a nonsensical frenzy. It adds to the noise of an already chaotic society.
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Well, yeah. I somewhat disagree with you on who's doing it, but yeah. It is not to
our benefit to have mass movements like that focusing on exotic delusions instead of surprisingly mundane things - like vote fraud, poverty, corrupt politicians, and all of the other
solvable societal ills.
Fear, as every nerd knows, is the mind-killer. Keep people frothing in fear, and you can control them.
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Originally Posted by Atlictoatl
I find it bizarre that Trump has fed into it with the Birther stuff. He's at a level of power that he must be aware the issue is a nonsensical one, but it's odd that he's so willing to contribute to the destabilization that comes with it. I would have thought that his economic priorities would have him promoting greater stability, and can't tell if his ego is "trumping" his better interests, or what other agenda he might have.
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I'll second that. I almost think he was trying to discredit the Birther movement and the right in general. Regardless of the truth of it, it's simply
not something Americans are interested in anymore.
Re: Due process.
There's fifty witnesses and they caught him red-handed. How much due process does he need? How much doubt can there be? If there was a shadow of a doubt as to his guilt, I'd be arguing for his right to a fair and speedy trial instead of a trial by media. There isn't - his 'fair and speedy trial' just happens to be so much more abbreviated because there is no question of his guilt. They already proved him sane, so now all that's left is the formalities of establishing his obvious guilt.