Ace:
From the Daily Caller, from last week:
I’m going to add some italics for emphasis.
New York Times reporter Yamiche Alcindor said Wednesday that she knows people who are “still in therapy” over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s election loss to President Donald Trump.…
“I think the intention of [Hillary Clinton’s deplorable] book was two things. One it was to really, I think just vent and get it out there. Because there are so many people like Hillary Clinton who are still writing about this, who are still thinking about this, who are still in therapy, frankly. Sources I know who are still really upset about the election,” she said.
Alcindor also said that Clinton represents everything wrong with the Democratic Party, and said voters are still “reeling” from Trump’s historic upset.
“Hillary Clinton is the embodiment of all that’s still going wrong with the Democratic Party, and what they need to get through. So I think Hillary Clinton, I don’t think is opening anynew wounds here,” she said.
Oh my, look at all those floridly emotional, mental-unwellness-signalling words.
Video at the link.
I’ve repeatedly noted that half of the country is clinically insane, driven mad by the election of Donald Trump and the blow to their own egos, their sense that they are the Masters of the Universe and control their fellow countrymen, producing daily neurotic spasms on Twitter, and are virally infecting normal people with their toxic mental derangement.
Okay, let me talk about how to exploit that, or how it will do its own exploiting for us.
In the old days, the media liked to pretend that it was conservatives who were super-crazy-ideological, and that liberals were not even liberals at all, they were non-ideological and non-partisan creatures, who only reluctantly engage in politics, only compelled to engage with it at all by their deep inner goodness to do what’s best for everyone.
But not political. Oh dear, not that.
You may remember when conservatives objected to being identified as a “conservative advocate” by the media, whereas the out-and-proud liberal they were squared off against was identified only as “an expert” in whatever policy field they were debating.
Obama pretended to be non-ideological and non-partisan, despite being rabidly ideological and ruthlessly partisan. He was forever painting those disagreeing with him on policy for being “political” in their thinking, whereas he, you see, was just thinking rationally and lucidly.
You know the pose: Some say we should kill every single Iranian man, woman, and child by launching 10,000 nuclear missiles at them without warning. Some others say we should sign over to Iran the entirety of the US gross national product. I dismiss the extremists on either side — I say we merely give Iran $150 billion, as well as a go-ahead to build their own nuclear missiles.
There’s a reason the media and left-liberals-who-don’t-wish-to-acknowledge-they’re-left-liberals do this. It’s because people — most normal people, anyway — have a deep suspicion of politics and politically minded people.
If you can paint your opponent as political, while fighting him nail and tooth while pretending that you are yourself not political, you’ve taken a massive first step towards persuading an audience, because the first thing you need to do to persuade someone is seem “relatable,” and basically Just Like Them, and as they themselves like to believe they’re non-political, you establish something more important than logic and reason can when you pretend to match their personality and emotional state.
You don’t like politics? Why that’s so funny– I don’t like politics either! Now that we’ve established that we both are kindred spirits who don’t like politics, let me tell you about my plan to convert the US into a single-payer health care system!
The media, and Democrats, wage a remorseless war to paint anyone who isn’t an extremist left-liberal — as they are — as being “political.” Not at all like Jake Tapper and Jim Acosta, who are just truth-telling crusaders for Goodness and Honesty.
In other words: They relentlessly Otherize their political opponents.
This is why every protester at a left-liberal march is depicted as Just Like You. You know the drill — “Grandmothers. Teachers. Firemen. Welders. Whites, blacks, Hispanics, Asians. Most of them had never even thought of attending a political rally before, but [X left-liberal political claim] had finally drawn them out to the streets to make their voices heard…”
They deliberately depict the left-liberal protesters as demographically broad as possible, so that as many readers as possible can look at the description and think: Oh, that’s me. These people are Just Like Me. I should agree with them!
Meanwhile, ever protester at a conservative rally is depicted as weird, intensely political, heads all filled with bugaboos, hang-ups, and #FakeNews. The media also deliberately claims that these people are as demographically narrow as possible, to make sure the smallest possible segment of the audience sees any of themselves in the crowd. They always claim conservatives are entirely white, and will actively forge video to erase black people out of gun rights marches.
With the Tea Party, there were two storylines about economic status: Half of the news stories depicted Tea Partiers as “just the rich” (and hence, Not Like You) and half of them depicted the Tea Partiers as “largely unecucated and poor” (again, Not Like You, and in fact, your Social Inferiors).
The people writing the first Narrative never bothered reconciling their stories with those writing the second Narrative. No media editor ever got the two competing Narratives to share the same story so that the report was, “People from all economic strata came to the Tea Party protest against Obamacare…”
No, it was just the very rich and uncaring, or just the very poor and easily conned, and in all events, it was only old, white people of traditional sexual roles who probably didn’t even like rock-n-roll or boobs.
This is a very potent method of propgandization. Most people think they’re swayed by reason and logic, but most people are wrong, and do not know themselves very well at all. Most people — including those who are the most insistent that they are Independent Rational Thinkers — are swayed more by emotion and the feeling of belongingness in a group.
Propagandists — political consultants and the media — know this.
Though their tantrums tend to disrupt the restoration of the nation after 8 years of degradation, it is pleasing to watch.