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by Little Guy @, Monday, August 04, 2025, 17:26 (460 days ago) @ Yandosan

"On the bright side, Trump will be about as relevant to American politics as GW now is in about 1200 days. And, like GW, no way this blathering nut job is gonna be invited to the 2028 Republican Convention. From Hero (to many) to Pariah. Just watch.

Trump has ordered that “improper ideology from such properties” as the Smithsonian. Of course, we have some indications of what he thinks are improper ideologies.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-truth-and-sanity-to-american-history/

Then of course the removal of the commissioner of labor statistics because he didn’t appreciate her speaking the facts as best as they are known.

This has resulted in people remembering Orwell’s 1984.

But before we assume that Trump will repudiated, remember a couple of quotes from a contemporary of Orwell, Aldous Huxley, in Brave New World.

“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.“

and

“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”

Twelve hundred days is a long time to become conditioned to things and to then take things for granted, when the person in the most powerful elected position in the world keeps saying those things. Remember how many Americans have been conditioned to believe that Trump won the 2020 election and…

Forty percent of U.S. adults ascribe to a strictly creationist view of human origins, believing that God created them in their present form within roughly the past 10,000 years.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/261680/americans-believe-creationism.aspx

That’s right. Despite all of the scientific evidence, some 40% of Americans believe a myth instead of facts.


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