Citizen Tom has a good post up called “Why Such Hatred For Donald Trump?”, that discusses the irrationality behind the Left’s visceral reaction to everything he does. CT essentially makes the argument that Trump is a master at pushing the emotional trigger buttons of his detractors, whose idolatry of things other than God (ego, intellect, being right etc…) trips them up. I happen to agree with this.
As usual with a post from Citizen Tom it sparked some interesting conversation in the comments section. Scatterwisdom kicked things off by bringing up the psychological angle of what motivates people to behave in such a way. This shifted the conversation down some interesting avenues and all involved offered some insightful perspectives.
Scatterwisdom also referenced one of my favorite cultural philosophers, Jonathan Haidt, who had this to say:
“One thing that you find in most of the great wisdom traditions…
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