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Originally Posted by Griff

We seem determined to rip each other apart.

Hitler used same techniques to obtain power. How many bother to learn from history?

Apollo was totally about making decisions (and risks) from numbers. Today, so many only know something because it was the first thing they were told. How many learned what is always necessary to have sucess - perspective.

A benchmark remains: Saddam's WMDs (or the same lies that promoted Vietnam). Numbers (or facts based in science experience) and fundamental facts posted repeatedly here clearly demonstrated that hearsay was a lie. In each case subjective reasoning ignored well proven facts tempered by perspective and history.

Fact. Tax cuts create recessions. Reality will apparently again prove that fact. Numbers make it clear that a recession has begun at the beginning of 2019. How severe? We do not yet know. No numbers exist to answer that. Only the subjective (emotional) will answer (or deny). But those who promoted emotional conclusions are already in denial.

Conclusions from subjective reasoning are also called brainwashing. Only recite what the central committee of the communist party has ordered us to believe. Trump said so. So it must be true.

In America, we are told to disparage every American ally, and to praise Putin, Xi, and Kim. We are ordered to believe. So it must be true - exactly like Saddam's WMDs and the evil Ho Chi Minh.

Trump's support comes from hate: the so many who also approve of the KKK, Nazi, and White Supremacists. That makes him popular - and reelected. Derisive is what Hitler, Milosevic, et al use to promote themselves. Polls demonstrate that 40% of Americans love those kinds of people. Some even post their hate inspired rhetoric here - repeatedly. They have no idea that hate is successfully being used to promote those emotions; to rip each other apart.