The defeat of powerful Republican Representative Eric Cantor in the Republican primary has resulted in a “stunned” Congress who didn’t see it coming. So out of touch are the Republicans that they had no clue that Americans don’t want a tsunami of illegals being legitimized, nor leaving the borders wide open. And by all reports, today they are, actually, wide open as the illegal children’s tsunami has swamped the border security, leaving the border functionally open for even more. Cantor was held responsible by voters for the children’s tsunami, as it was, in part, his own proclamations which led those south of the border to believe that children would be allowed in and amnesty would be granted. (And of course yesterday Biden declared that a steady flow of even more “immigrants” is required – for the economy, ignoring the laws which define the numbers and categories actually allowed legal entry).
When a congressvarmint says “What the American people want (or need) is [more government restrictions]…”, what he really is saying is “What I want the American people to get is [more government restrictions]…”. This is inverted double talk, of course, and it is now the language of the government, and especially the Left – which includes all Democrats and most Republicans.
This tendency to lie and believe your own lies is the most hazardous trend in the USA, because the vast majority of Americans are now (mal)educated under that system of intellectual malfeasance, and are not capable of rational discernment. Rather, as Mark Dice shows in his interview videos, those Americans agree with any crap they hear that proposes more restrictive government so long as the phrase “help Obama” is attached to it. You can now fool almost all the people almost all the time. Or so the Dems and RINOs think.
Which brings me to the concept of the Ideological Turing Test. This test was proposed as a way to determine if a partisan correctly understands the position of the other side. The idea is to have the partisan state the position of the other side, and that statement to be adjudged for its accuracy of presenting the opposing side’s position. Sounds good, but…
In today’s world the two sides are (a)the rational and (b)the irrational. Is it possible for the rational side to accurately state positions which are not just irrational, but which are lied about to the point where the holder of the lie believes his own lie? How can one state the obvious antithetical objective which the other side is pursuing, and be graded as accurate, when the opposition is saying “just the synthesis and no more”. If one states another obvious position of the opposition – “they are lying” – how could the Ideological Turing test deal with that?
How, for example, is one to state the position of Obama on anything? Everything he claimed before his first term in the presidency has been reversed or ignored in his actual behaviors. Whether he is merely irrational or he is pathologically lying is beside the point. To have asserted his original positions in an Ideological Turing Test taken in 2008 would have missed his actual beliefs which are now totally revealed by his performance in office. In fact, the case of Obama demonstrates that lying is actually part of the position and principles of that set of partisans.
The Ideological Turing Test might work when the Left takes it, since they also lie about the position of their opposition, and if they believe their own lies, then they miss the mark radically, and that defect would be found in the test. In fact a predecessor of the Ideological Turing Test was used in the 1960s between the Hawks and the Doves, with the Hawks “slightly” misrepresenting the Doves position, and the Doves “significantly” misrepresenting the Hawks position.
It is necessary for the Left to misrepresent any opposing position which is not congruent with their agenda. Otherwise, rational decisions might be made, such as defending the border as is the law. So taking a position for properly defending the border would necessitate the charge of “racism” and whatever other classist charge which can be dredged up by Leftist partisans.
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