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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: marco100   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: We Don't Care About Protecting Bill Clinton
Date: 12/20/25 10:50 AM
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A "strong preference for social order, tradition, and established authority" by the vast majority of the population is necessary for a functioning society.

It is called being "normal."

Isn't it the Left who keeps whining that Trump repeatedly violates various social and political "norms"? [Without of course adequately defining what the "norms" are, but in this context that's not really the point I'm trying to make.]

Why do you Lefties keep whining about Trump supposedly violating all kinds of "norms," yet then simultaneously attempt to argue that having a "strong preference for social order, tradition, and established authority" is a BAD THING? And data mining for some pseudo-scientific "psychology" from a dead German musicologist and a dead Canadian left wing academic to support your self-contradictory world view?

Now would you please at least STFU about Trump violating "norms."

"Norms" are a bad thing, you just said so, it makes you a Right Wing Authoritarian.

Do you realize how chaotically irrational you are?

No, of course not.
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