The tricky thing about all this is that some people are more susceptible to this type of rhetorical manipulation than others. This comes down to critical thinking and brain training. If one wants to or needs to believe then the language works manipulatively and the neural pathways are built up. If we aren’t fearful or primed to believe, our brain has mechanisms to alert us to the deceit. Simply put — if we are constantly critical of lies, our brains are more trained to notice them.
They’re not talking about cadence though, I think that’s a huge part of it. I start to believe trump isn’t such a bad guy when I hear him speak and I hate him, I can’t imagine how people fall for him and kind of like him or even already love him. I was listening to one of his speeches when he was on trial for something and then I sped it up, it completely broke the spell. There was also a cult expert in the 70s that talked about how that sing-songy way of speaking helps to brainwash people.
Best advice for relatives under the spell, speed up the videos to break it.
I always found it odd that Trump sounds so different on audio recordings than when he is giving a speech. Cadence is the reason. I just want to know if someone taught him or he learned it on the fly. Knowing he had Hitler speeches in his nightstand makes me think he actually watched his speeches. That’s horrifying if true.
I think he was taught, he has some very creepy people working for him that would have watched the videos, read all the stuff and then taught him the lessons. He’s a shitty dude too, some of it probably came naturally.
Knowing he had Hitler speeches in his nightstand makes me think he actually watched his speeches. That’s horrifying if true.
Have you ever noticed that they usually speed up hitler’s speeches? I don’t think that’s an accident.
Who sped up his speeches? Are you saying they speed it up to stop the “spell” or create it?
I’m saying that they speed them up for the public so they don’t fall under the sing song voice. Apparently he was a persuasive speaker. We’re easily influenced beings.
Why the downvotes for an innocuous statement?
It happened quickly too, might be your user name? I have no idea.
This was a great read, and if your mind is open to evidence, lays out a lot of facts as to why those who follow Trump are susceptible to hate speech rhetoric.
Deep down, they want to hate, we all do. It’s the easiest emotion. Those of us who take a breath and think, we don’t fall for the emotional appeal. Those people give in to the hate. You can say they’re “deplorable.”
We don’t all want to hate. I sure don’t. It’s too much effort.
Call me lazy, but I don’t waste the effort to hate people. Would I be ambivalent if certain people died? Sure. Am I going to be happy about it, or angry if it doesn’t happen? No. Ain’t nobody got time for that.
Maybe, but I don’t think that’s the underlying motivator. I think down at the bottom, conservatives are driven by fear.
- Fear of the other.
- Fear of progress.
- Fear of being left behind by that progress.
- Fear of new ideas.
- Fear of looking weak.
It’s all fear. Right now, I’m leaning towards fear of looking weak as the biggest one. It motivates all the virtue signaling on the right, and causes them to treat safety precautions in multiple situations as signs of weakness, from refusing to wear helmets on bikes to refusing to vaccinate against deadly diseases. They have to prove they’re “stronger” than anything that could hurt them.
It also explains why they’re resistant to accepting expert advice, but easily fall for “strongmen.” If some effete scientist manages to get them to do what he asks, why, that’s just showing that they’re weak. But if a strongman does it, then falling in line isn’t a sign of weakness, it’s a sign of how gloriously strong the strongman is.
Although we have good reason to be fearful, lefties are afraid of r’s, the supreme court letting trump win even though he didn’t again, lgbt+ people being persecuted, the racism from people who do things about it and so on. Fear doesn’t make you a shitty person.
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” — Yoda
Judging by the downvotes, my observation still holds.
What brain?
It’s kinda ironic that this professor warns us against speech that dehumanizes our opponents, then categorizes people into groups led by ancient and spooky brain malfunctions and those who have “critical thinking”, and thusly immune. I guess they were self aware enough to at least not use the term “lizard brain”.
Maybe MAGAs have deplorable brains because they’re deplorable people? I’m pretty sure that if the professor checked, their bones are deplorable; their spleens are deplorable; and their big toenail is deplorable too.
Can you really not see the difference between:
- “I assert that this group of people suffers from a specific cognitive mishap which I am citing detailed research for the existence of,” and
- “I assert that this group of people are a parasitic class of anti-white vermin” or “a cabal of satanic, cannibalistic abusers of children” or etc?
That’s a whole lot of words to say conservatives are dumb.
