The Illusion of Trump Saying Stupid Things

 Voters, Media, Broadcasters and all other observers are watching the 2016 through a filter of fantasies and euphemisms. I have no fantasies and cannot engage in euphemisms.  For purposes of observation, all of the animals have the same weight. Society fits certain people with halos others are given higher or lower status. In fantasy free thinking, no person is given more weight. Then I acknowledge that all of the different animals behave in keeping with a small number of incentives that are provided by nature.

Self interest is life’s basic incentive. Without self interest we all die. The species becomes extinct. Purge yourself of fantasy and euphemism and the world looks a lot different.

What can we see differently if we observe Trump’s campaign without the handicap of fantasies and euphemisms? There is a coordinated effort by, the donor class, candidates who receive their contributions, the news media, wall street, and organized crime to destroy Trump’s candidacy.

Trump is actually saying fewer bizarre things than the average political candidate. When Trump talks, the opposing side thoroughly combs through all of the dialog searching for something he says that can be twisted and used against him. When something is found there is a media feeding  frenzy to misstate and  warp whatever words have been found. The process is a bloodless assignation attempt.

When coverage of a campaign consists of nothing but searching endlessly for one candidate’s worst moments and then and reporting on nothing more than that, any candidate will look worse than he is.  What Trump says is seldom reported. Instead audiences get the media’s  interpretation of what he said, not what he actually said but their biased interpretation of what he said.

Can you imagine what other candidates would look like if this method of reporting was used in covering their campaigns?

 

The illusion of Trump

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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.

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