Emotional Mirroring

That's how Ace of Spades is explaining the support Donald Trump is being given by so many.

Is the only thing that matters Emotional Mirroring -- a candidate pretending to feel the same things we do?

We seem to have a major cleavage here between those looking for emotional validation and those who at least to pretend that they're looking for substantive commitments.

Now, to be honest, I think the people looking for substance are also emotional -- everything in life is emotion; even mathematicians speak of the beauty of a proof -- but they're at least trying to give a factual sheen to their position.

And this gets to be a very heated thing, because the emotion-release people hate being told that's what they are (and the Establishment loves, loves saying that, as they pretend to be only interested in positions and facts).

But look, at some point, you have a guy who is a textbook hard-left liberal claiming he's "angry" about shit and suddenly he's the Great Conservative Hope, and how can this be credited as anything except an expression of pure emotionalism?

To be honest, I would vote for Trump. Like myself, he's pro-choice. And I would vote for almost anyone over Hillary Clinton or the admittedly-socialist Bernie Sanders.

But the people who are up in arms in Trump devotion -- why is it wrong, suddenly, to oppose a pro-partial-birth-abortion, pro-total-amnesty, Hillary-donating, crony-capitalist buffoon?

Please stop telling me "he's angry."

Who the f*** is not angry?

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