I now understand more about Trump Supporters

[TotallyOz]

The Dunning-Kruger Effect May Help Explain Trump's Support

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201808/the-dunning-kruger-effect-may-help-explain-trumps-support

[Riobard]

The D-K effect has been applicable to AIDS denialism and Vaccine conspiracy theory. 

A number of additional human tendencies help explain these illusions of confidence in knowledge and beliefs. For example, the WYSIATI rule: what you see is all there is. The human mind does not easily integrate new information when the previous story made the bare minimum of sense and was just comfortable enough. It has been adaptive and essential to human survival to rapidly and rigidly lock together a relatively small number of puzzle pieces.

And Trump is relatable to so many supporters because he masterfully yet unwittingly mirrors the virtually limitless capacity to ignore one's own ignorance. His simplemindedness is, paradoxically, his greatest strength with many constituents. His developmental evolving to grasp what he does not know would be his unmaking ... he would not be able to drag his base along that learning curve and it would fragment the connective identification. 

What is a central catch phrase these days? ... It [he] is what it is ... Elegantly simplistic. Covers information and nonevents alike. 

There is little more to know about Trump. Everyone believes his/her own version. Nothing really much new, whereas, in contrast, people might be thrown off by information supporting that Hitler loved puppies and infants in swaddling clothes. Sadly, that is a more credible narrative. My personal narrative of Trump is that any apparent fondness for pooches and babies is self-serving. 

[mvan1]

4 hours ago, TotallyOz said:

The Dunning-Kruger Effect May Help Explain Trump's Support

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201808/the-dunning-kruger-effect-may-help-explain-trumps-support

Speaking of Trump supporters, there is a forum member (who will go unnamed at this time) who thinks Trump can do no wrong. 

I am wondering what happened to this supporter since the election and Trump lost control of the House?   

The forum member has not posted since the election.  He used to post fairly often.  He either disappeared or is in hiding.

The forum member seems like a nice guy, even if he is misguided by Trump.  

Could it be the sweeping results of the election (whereby Trump suffered a loss of the House of Representatives) that is keeping the forum member in hiding?  

Or, could it be the incessant child-like tantrums Trump has been having lately? 

Or, is it the fact Trump sent thousands of active military troops to the Mexican border in a political stunt that is embarrassing the forum member into hiding?   

All this embarrassment is not good for Trump supporters.  

 

[Riobard]

Maybe was a recently turned white suburban female who had been catfishing here?

[RA1]

Regardless of Trump the US electorate seems happiest with the legislative and executive branches being held by different parties.  That was as predictable as the sun coming up in the east.  I don't think it much matters as Washington does little of use anyway.

Best regards,

RA1