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| Kavanaugh, The Disgust Circuit, And The Limits Of "Nuts & Sluts" |
| 2018-09-29 |
| [Zero] The Ragin’ Cajun, I believe, coined the phrase "Nuts and Sluts" to succinctly describe the tactic used by the elites I call The Davos Crowd to smear and destroy someone they’ve targeted. Brett Kavanaugh is the latest victim of this technique. But, there have been dozens of victims I can list from Gary Hart in the 1980’s to former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn to Donald Trump. "Nuts and Sluts" is easy to understand. Simply accuse the person you want to destroy of being either crazy (the definition of which shifts with whatever is the political trigger issue of the day) or a sexual deviant. This technique works because it triggers most people’s Disgust Circuit, a term created by Mark Schaller as part of what he calls the Behavioral Immune System and popularized by Johnathan Haidt. The disgust circuit is easy to understand. It is the limit at which behavior in others triggers our gut-level outrage and we recoil with disgust. The reason "Nuts and Sluts" works so well on conservative candidates and voters is because, on average, conservatives have a much stronger disgust circuit than liberals and/or libertarians. This is why it always seems to be that anyone who threatens the global order or the political system always turns out to have some horrible sexual deviance in their closet. It’s why the only thing any of us remember about the infamous Trump Dossier is the image of Trump standing on a bed in a Moscow hotel room urinating on a hooker. The technique is used to drive a wedge between Republican voters and lawmakers and make it easy for them to go along with whatever stupidity is brought forth by the press and the Democrats. And don’t think for a second that, more often than not, GOP leadership isn’t in cahoots with the DNC on these take-downs. Because they are. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 "The Resistance has become more and more outraged." As the result, the left seems to be working at the fringes of the Overton Window. People tend not to believe what is being sold. Telling the big lie and telling it often doesn’t work anymore? “The truth is easy to support. Lies cost money. The more outrageous the lie the more expensive it gets to maintain it.” |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-09-29 12:24 |
| #1 DNC and GOPe (but I repeat myself) operate on the time proven principle that if you establish a PAC to "send Joe to the electric chair" Joe and his wife are probably good for the max allowable donation. And Joe's boss will figure out a way to make straw donations many times above the limit. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-09-29 09:43 |