This part neatly sums up the significant concern of the 95.6%ers who are not living in the . Of the US' 3.4% about 0.8% are authoritarian or sympathisers/victims and trying to wag the dog.
Coming from a culture that has a massively disproportionate influence having lived under an imperious neighbour for 600 years, the measures and countermeasures against such authoritarianism are very well understood. The Jews have perhaps even a better handle on it and certainly Trump draws strongly from both traditions. Between the Irish and the Jews expertise, headfucking people is easy. Hannity, Rudy G etc. and Trump borrowing from both. Easy wins by playing with facts and causing doubt, but not comfortably honest wins.
I became fascinated as a teen when studying the religions of the world by the oddity of Orthadox Jews having rules for the Sabbath that they go to extraordinary measures to bypass on technicalities. https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Orthod...ubvert-the-spirit-of-them-with-technicalities
You can see in the replies to above a bunch of justifications that errr.. bemuses? those brought up gentile (simple minded
). The Irish don't go as far but there is a strong tradition of confounding superior forces. The *Blarney stone tale comes from this.https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qbwzzm/a-gentiles-guide-to-cheating-the-shabbat
This leads to turning the law into a pretzel and argument generally I feel, as we see from Rudy Gulliani. One can see the mindset in argument from several of the right wing forum members. Foreigners and Jews is what the politics forum is mostly.
Do they maintain their moral high-ground through convoluted mental loops different from other Americans?
*The Earl of Leicester was commanded by Queen Elizabeth I to take possession of the castle. Whenever he endeavored to negotiate the matter McCarthy always suggested a banquet or some other form of delay, so that when the queen asked for progress reports a long missive was sent, at the end of which the castle remained untaken. The queen was said to be so irritated that she remarked that the earl's reports were all 'Blarney'.
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