Source of Trump Bashing

Thinking without the handicap of viewing everything through the prism of fantasy greatly increases a person’s ability to instantly pinpoint the source of what would otherwise look like odd behavior.

Surely you have noticed that the democratic party has no leader, no issues and no identifiable agenda. The rank and file keep themselves busy by coming up with anti Trump sound bites. Trump is a racist? He is said to be a racist, homophobe, misogynist, xenophobe, fascist and any other word his critics barely know the meaning of.  Trump is none of these things but in the mean time he is doing many things that will harm the country for years to come. So, why call Trump names and try to undo the election when he is vulnerable on genuine issues?

Observe without indulging in fantasy and the answer is obvious. People vote for and support candidates who validate the fantasies their constituents live by.  Fantasy tells us that there are ways government can force others to like and respect what and who people are even when the mass of society is highly unimpressed. People seldom die in the name of freedom. People are very likely to die defending their fantasies. When fantasies are threatened people panic and turn against who ever is perceived as the instigator. This is the source of the Trump angst.

A winning candidate will validate all who engage in bizarre behavior and promise government will do for them all kinds of things government has no way to do. Oddly, Trump got elected without doing these things.  Who would naturally be the most offended by Donald Trump? It would be the Hollywood crowd. They make fortunes creating fantasies for people. Want to be well liked? Find someone who is wrong, tell them they are right. Then shower them with constant praise for believing a mountain of mindless notions. When candidates do that they get voters for life.

 

 

 

 

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About Fantasy Free Economics

James Quillian independent scholar,free market economist,and teacher of natural law. Who is James Quillian? Certainly I am nobody special, Just a tireless academic and deep thinker. Besides that, I have broken the code with respect to economics and political science. Credentials? Nothing you would be impressed with. I am not a household name. It is hard to become famous writing that virtually no one in the country is genuinely not in touch with reality. But, if I did not do that, there would be no point in my broking the broken the code. If you read the blog, it is easy to see that there are just a few charts, no math and no quantitative analysis. That is not by accident. Given what I know, those items are completely useless. I do turn out to be highly adept at applying natural law. Natural law has predominance over any principles the social science comes up. By virtue of understanding natural law, I can debunk, in just a few sentences , any theory that calls for intervention by a government. My taking the time to understand the ins and outs of Keynes General Theory is about like expecting a chemistry student to completely grasp all that the alchemists of the middle ages thought they understood in efforts to turn base metals into goal. Keynesian theory clearly calls for complete objectivity. Government can only make political decisions. Keynesian techniques call for economic decisions. So, why go any further with that? Fantasy Free Economics is in a sense a lot like technical analysis. Technical analysis began with the premise that it was impossible to gain enough information studying fundamentals to gain a trading advantage. Study the behavior of investors instead. Unlike technical analysis, I don't use technical charts. What I understand are the incentives of different people and entities active in the economics arena. For example, there is no such thing as an incentive to serve with life in the aggregate. In the aggregate, only self interest applies. It is routinely assumed otherwise. That is highly unappealing. But, I am sorry. That is the way it is. I can accept that because I am genuinely in touch with reality. Step one in using Fantasy Free Economics is for me to understand just how little I really know. A highly credentialed economist may know 100 times what I do based on the standard dogma. Compare the knowledge each of us has compared to all there is to know and we both look like we know nothing at all. There is always more than we don't know than what we do know. I am humble enough to present myself on that basis. Why? That is the way it is. I am not bad at math. I have taught math. What I understand is when to use it and when to rely on something else. Math is useless in natural law so I don't use it. While others look at numbers, I am busy understanding the forces in nature that makes their numbers what they are. That gives me a clear advantage.