Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
No. of Recommendations: 13
"One other lie that struck me, although it may not matter much to voters, was Trump’s insistence that the world admires what he’s doing: “America is respected again, perhaps like never before.”
Trump’s desire for external validation is, frankly, pathetic. And the truth is that we are despised like never before. You can see this in surveys:
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Source: Pew
And foreign leaders have completely lost faith in America: We’ve become a country whose word can’t be trusted, a country that betrays its allies:
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Source: Kiel Institute
It’s true that in some ways the world fears us in a way it didn’t before — in the same way that one steps carefully around a belligerent drunk in a bar. But we haven’t been this weak on the world stage since before World War II.
Anyway, that speech won’t pull Trump out of his downward spiral. Time to attack Iran?" —Nobel laureate Paul Krugman
No. of Recommendations: 10
No. of Recommendations: 5
America is respected again?
My impression is conservatives have a different definition of "respected" that is closer to "feared and obeyed". I have seen this in other setting as well. Of course the real definition is closer to esteemed and admired. Perhaps they perceive someone that fears and obeys them would also hold them in high esteem? I see this as just another example of conservatives misperceptions of the people around them.
Alan
No. of Recommendations: 0
My impression is conservatives have a different definition of "respected" that is closer to "feared and obeyed".
Not quite.
Conservatives DEMAND TO BE "feared and obeyed".
When THEY are required to "be afraid and obey", they call it something totally different.
No. of Recommendations: 0
The psychopathology of Fred Trump's relationships with his children is laid out in Mary Trump's book Too Much and Never Enough.
The psychology of those who elected him is elucidated in Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.
No. of Recommendations: 0
Oh great, we're between Kuwait and Kazakhstan. Are we the third K?
