Submitted by Tyler Durden on 05/08/2016 06:20 -0400
Scott Adams – creator of the infamous Dilbert cartoons – believes Donald Trump will win the presidency in a landslide. Trump’s “meticulously plotted domination,” as Adams explains to The Washington Post, stems from his running on our emotions and sly appeals to our own human irrationality. as the following six points make clear, Adams views Trump as “a master persuader” who will rhetorically dismantle Clinton’s candidacy next.
Having nothing to lose essentially then increases his chance of winning, because it opens up his field of rhetorical play. “Psychology is the only necessary skill for running for president,” writes Adams, adding: “Trump knows psychology.”
Within that context, here is what Candidate Trump is doing to win campaign hearts and minds, according to Scott Adams:
“Dilbert.” (by Scott Adams / Universal Uclick)
1. Trump knows people are basically irrational.
“If you see voters as rational you’ll be a terrible politician,” Adams writes on his blog. “People are not wired to be rational. Our brains simply evolved to keep us alive. Brains did not evolve to give us truth. Brains merely give us movies in our minds that keeps us sane and motivated. But none of it is rational or true, except maybe sometimes by coincidence.”
2. Knowing that people are irrational, Trump aims to appeal on an emotional level.
“The evidence is that Trump completely ignores reality and rational thinking in favor of emotional appeal,” Adams writes. “Sure, much of what Trump says makes sense to his supporters, but I assure you that is coincidence. Trump says whatever gets him the result he wants. He understands humans as 90-percent irrational and acts accordingly.”
Adams adds: “People vote based on emotion. Period.”
“Dilbert.” (by Scott Adams / Universal Uclick)
3. By running on emotion, facts don’t matter.
“While his opponents are losing sleep trying to memorize the names of foreign leaders – in case someone asks – Trump knows that is a waste of time … ,” Adams writes. “There are plenty of important facts Trump does not know. But the reason he doesn’t know those facts is – in part – because he knows facts don’t matter. They never have and they never will. So he ignores them.
“Right in front of you.”
And stating numbers that might not quite be facts nevertheless can anchor those numbers, and facts, in your mind.
4. If facts don’t matter, you can’t really be “wrong.”
Trump “doesn’t apologize or correct himself. If you are not trained in persuasion, Trump looks stupid, evil, and maybe crazy,” Adams writes. “If you understand persuasion, Trump is pitch-perfect most of the time. He ignores unnecessary rational thought and objective data and incessantly hammers on what matters (emotions).”
“Did Trump’s involvement in the birther thing confuse you?” Adams goes on to ask. “Were you wondering how Trump could believe Obama was not a citizen? The answer is that Trump never believed anything about Obama’s place of birth. The facts were irrelevant, so he ignored them while finding a place in the hearts of conservatives. For later.
“This is later. He plans ahead.”
“Dilbert.” (by Scott Adams / Universal Uclick)
5. With fewer facts in play, it’s easier to bend reality.
Steve Jobs famously aimed to create “reality distortion fields” to meet his needs and achieve his ends. Trump employs similar techniques, and apparently can be similarly thin-skinned when his “reality” is challenged. “The Master Persuader will warp reality until he gets what he wants,” writes Adams, noting that Trump is “halfway done” already.
(Among the persuasive techniques that Trump uses to help bend reality, Adams says, are repetition of phrases; “thinking past the sale” so the initial part of his premise is stated as a given; and knowing the appeal of the simplest answer, which relates to the concept of Occam’s razor.)
“Dilbert.” (by Scott Adams / Universal Uclick)
6. To bend reality, Trump is a master of identity politics — and identity is the strongest persuader.
“Do you think it is a coincidence that Trump called Megyn Kelly a bimbo and then she got a non-bimbo haircut that is … well, Trumpian?” Adams writes. “It doesn’t look like a coincidence to this trained persuader.”
One way to achieve this is by deploying “linguistic kill shots” that land true, and alter perception through two ways.
“The best Trump linguistic kill shots,” Adams writes,”have the following qualities: 1. Fresh word that is not generally used in politics; 2. Relates to the physicality of the subject (so you are always reminded).”
Writes Adams: “Identity is always the strongest level of persuasion. The only way to beat it is with dirty tricks or a stronger identity play. … [And] Trump is well on his way to owning the identities of American, Alpha Males, and Women Who Like Alpha Males. Clinton is well on her way to owning the identities of angry women, beta males, immigrants, and disenfranchised minorities.
“If this were poker, which hand looks stronger to you for a national election?”
“Dilbert” (by Scott Adams / Universal Uclick 2016)
Or maybe people just finally wised up and realized that decades of crony career politicians have sold US down the river, they’re fed up, and they don’t have any better choice.
Oh, shit. Scott Adams turns out to be a libtard, and I always liked Dilbert cartoons. This is fuckin demoralizin. I noticed that Tyler kinda distanced himself from Adams by calling Dilbert “the infamous cartoon” etc.
Smart guy, that Tyler.
Scott Adams has spent far too much time associating with liberals and not enough time with the rest of the people.
While he has some points quite a bit of this is projection. For example, not all voters vote by emotion, but liberals often do.
Trump will be elected for several reasons. The first is that before the election is held, the Democratic candidate will be on trial for treason. The second is that he is a master of image modification – a brash, red-neck raw talking offend everyone by telling the truth (embellished a bit, I grant you) in such a raw, rude way that it startled everyone who listened to him. Labeled “Everyman” and grew his audience from the great unwashed, the uneducated and dull last few generations .
Now, he will slowly modify his persona to a deep thinking professional (throwing enough shit into the air to keep the red-necks happy) while becoming Presidential between now and November. Serious foreign policy papers will flow, economic tomes will be printed, he and the Pentagon will (behind closed doors) dance the Samba and It wouldn’t surprise me for a Military type to eventually be named as a running mate. General Petraeus would have made a great candidate except he tripped over his pecker and could never stand the media heat.
So start looking for a Female (maybe) Military Type who has clean sheets (literally), lots of accomplishments (A female astronaut would be great!) and one that is sufficient skilled in military-eze to handle the Pentagon for Trump – who has problems with people who have bigger ego’s than he does. (That is most everyone so his chose for a vice candidate is quite important.)
None the less, look for a fast-gradual morph in Trump’s public persona into a more mature, thoughtful
and capable candidate – with a crude mouth just to stay in character. (and maybe keep Megan Kelly away from interview podiums!). “bleeds from wherever.” Indeed.. About as rude, crude and uncalled for as anything I ever heard a potential politico blat to the press. Look at the milage from the stupid masses he got from that one!
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Trump has already stated what he is looking for in Veep ………. a POLITICAL person, one who knows the ins and outs of passing laws, and playing the game. He also said he has little interest in selecting a military person …. because he can handle that pretty well (seriously).
Everyone wants to paint the voter, particularly the Trump voter as a retard. Well no shit already……of course they are. The majority of American citizens are morons so what do you expect.
Mr. Adams……you don’t know shit. Go back to what what you do know well, such as marginal fifth grade art and snarky bubble words that have implied the same exact thoughts over and over again for as long as we can remember. We know where you are going before you even start you stupid fuck.
Get this straight. If you shove a cattle prod up a morons ass often enough, zap his ass hard enough for long enough even a moron will get sick of it. Naturally they get emotional about it. Even people who are not morons get all worked up when someone sticks a painful object up their ass every day, day in and day out.
People can get emotional for a reason. Like when a cattle prod is working overtime on their ass. Using reason and clear thinking folks can become extremely emotional. Because they know the who what and why about the cattle prod blasting away in their ass and that makes it hurt even more. Approaching politics with Emotion or Reason your going to get bent out of shape big time either way.
Given the combination of free shit and anal stimulation a lot of voting morons start jacking off like crazy. Its their thing.They will mostly vote for the champion FSA Porn Jack Master Bernie Sanders.
Many more voters still have no clue as to what exactly is up their ass or who’s putting it there. These are the folks that will support the Hildabeast or who voted for most of the losers in the republican primaries.
But many voters have figured it out even if it took them thirty or forty years and they hate it.. They may not be sure about what Trump will stick up their ass but maybe, just maybe it wont hurt so much. That’s why Trump might win. That and a little revenge on the those who they see as having welded the cattle prods for so long.
When you work with lots of animals on a daily basis you understand that there is what you want from the animals and what the animals want for themselves. Now there are different ways of handling them given these two realities- and they are not theories, but actual behavioral truths.
1) Force. Dominate them, control them, use negative conditioning (cattle prods, electric fence, barbed wire, chutes, pens, confinement. These are effective to the degree that you get the kinds of behavior you want, but not the kind of handling that best serves your own ends. If you see yourself as a hard person who must impose his will on other living organisms in order to bend their will to your own, then this is the method for you. The drawbacks, of course, are that if an animal gets loose, it will be fearful of your approach and do everything to avoid you. Herd animals follow suit and the rest of the animals will do likewise. It causes stress and stressed animals still produce meat, but it isn’t as tasty because the proteins are frequently flooded with toxins and chemicals that have an impact on the final product. Of course if you aren’t the one having to eat it, it makes no difference. If it’s what you serve to your children, it matters a lot.It also makes animal handling a dangerous proposition and if you are the one doing the handling you risk being trampled, thrown, gored or even killed by animals that weigh up to ten times as much as you do.
2) Allowing the natural tendencies and instincts of the animals define the methods of husbandry. A well fed pig will never run away, in fact it will actively seek you out wherever you may be. A cow will more casually pass through a gate if it is located at a place where they naturally select to rest or congregate. A cow that has been fed treats in the back of a trailer for two or three days prior to a trip to the slaughterhouse will not fight you when it’s time to load up, in fact, if they had hands they would open the door for you. An animal that is stroked while it is at rest or eating, is spoken to in kind tones or has learned of the sound of a feed bucket being shake will follow you wherever you want it to. An animal like that, if it gets out of confinement wants more than anything to get back where it was and will gladly allow you to guide it. Your greatest risk is being mobbed by animals that seek your attention.
We are animals. We have our personal behaviors and quirks and we have our mob behaviors and social interactions and both are easily manipulated by anyone with the intelligence and will to power. Who in their right mind would send off their beloved child to be blown to smithereens in some foreign land in order to bring some illusory political system to alien people if not for being manipulated? And yet millions do. If this anti-evolutionary behavior takes place with such frequency it’s important to understand how it takes place and the means by which complete strangers who care nothing for you or your family are able to get you into readily accepting this self-destructive behavior.
Dilbert is correct, Trump is going to win in a landslide because the technique he is using is the one that seems to the people being persuaded to be the one that they feel most at ease with. The other side has been using force or the threat of it for so long that they fail to see both the effectiveness and the expediency of the other option.
4GW, 4th Turnings, Seasonal changes, generational swings are part of a Natural order and are responses to the calcified and draconian establishment practices of yesterday. Not that it won’t come around again in its time- but for now there is a swing in the other direction and either through superior intelligence or dumb luck Donald Trump has capitalized on this. And like it has been pointed out in the recent book by Vox Day SJW’s Always Lie, the only option of the old guard is to double down. Threaten and ridicule the growing movement against the old order and you will only reap their aversion to your end goal.
Or we are all equally wonderful snowflakes one step down from the angels who just want the best for all humanity and Hillary will sweep to victory on the wings of love for fellow man and equality for all regardless of their race, country of origin, justice status or gender preference.
Trumpeteers are coming, scott adams knows a fair amount of mocking reality so his credibility is a great deal more than most “journalists.”