President Trump has hypnotized, mesmerized, and desensitized his supporters by his anguished, arrogant, needy style of "leadership."
Too much media coverage? Whos fault is too much media coverage? A tweet a day ,or multiple tweets feed the media. Tweets are official Government communications, more than Press Conferences so they must be reported.
Tweety is at the heart of the barrage of media coverage.
And Tweety supporters have succumbed to the INTENTIONAL barrage of news, and are totally desensitized to all Tweety's wrong behaviors and words. Tweety supporters, True Believers, not discount EVERYTHING bad about their choice for change, Prez Tweety, Master of ALL FAKE NEWS.
to an extent of numbing otherwise intelligent people to normalize his behavior and words.
There is NO WAY Tweety otherwise intelligent people can justify believing what Tweety says and abiding by what Tweety does, as his words are cynical and contradictory, obvious lies, and his behavior is boorish, bullying, and nasty.
I WISH Tweety would just do his job like a "normal" 71 year old worker at a tough job. But Tweety is NOT a normal 71 year old man.
The study of how the news covers Tweety's lies make the point that as the lies are repeated by the media, people begin to accept the lie as truth.
Read this - third time I share it with anyone who reads this blog.
"Trump’s Lies vs. Your Brain"
Unfortunately, it’s no contest. Here’s what psychology tells us about life under a leader totally indifferent to the truth.
By Maria Konnikova
January/February 2017
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/donald-trump-lies-liar-effect-brain-214658
Tweety lies are validated by media coverage.
Tweety's lies are normalized and his supporters get buried deeper and deeper with his deceptions.
"What happens when a lie hits your brain? The now-standard model was first proposed by Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert more than 20 years ago. Gilbert argues that people see the world in two steps. First, even just briefly, we hold the lie as true: We must accept something in order to understand it. For instance, if someone were to tell us—hypothetically, of course—that there had been serious voter fraud in Virginia during the presidential election, we must for a fraction of a second accept that fraud did, in fact, take place. Only then do we take the second step, either completing the mental certification process (yes, fraud!) or rejecting it (what? no way). Unfortunately, while the first step is a natural part of thinking—it happens automatically and effortlessly—the second step can be easily disrupted. It takes work: We must actively choose to accept or reject each statement we hear. In certain circumstances, that verification simply fails to take place. As Gilbert writes, human minds, “when faced with shortages of time, energy, or conclusive evidence, may fail to unaccept the ideas that they involuntarily accept during comprehension.”"
Maybe there is hope for anyone who WANTs to get past the lies to the truth.
"How Behavioral Science Can Help Truth Triumph Over Lies"
Recent research in behavioral science helps address baseless accusations
"Gleb Tsipursky Ph.D. Intentional Insights, Posted Apr 24, 2017
Read article IF YOU CARE TO KNOW THE TRUTH.
"The consequences of Trump’s evidence-free claims are stunning in their impact. A Qualtrics poll (link is external) in December 2016 showed that over half of all Republicans believe that Trump won the popular vote, as do 24 percent of independents and 7 percent of Democrats. This distribution shows the impact of confirmation bias, with Republicans much more likely to believe Trump’s evidence-free claims. However, Trump’s tactics and the nature of media coverage lead even some independents and Trump’s political opponents to buy into Trump’s claims. Incidentally, the poll suggests that more sophisticated political observers are less likely to believe Trump, with only 37 percent of Republicans who had a college degree accepting Trump’s baseless allegations about millions of illegal votes.
Would you be surprised if Trump’s current claims about wiretapping will be rated “false” by fact-checkers just as his voter fraud claims were? Would you be surprised if the investigation of wiretapping will find nothing, just as the investigation of voter fraud has not found anything? Yet Trump keeps making such claims with no evidence, and will keep doing so, because he gets exactly what he wants--millions of people believing his baseless allegations.
Reframing the media coverage of Trump’s claims, using techniques informed by behavioral science, would disincentivize Trump from making such baseless statements, instead of rewarding him. Rather than focusing on relating the details of the specific claims made by Trump, news headlines and introductory paragraphs could foreground the pattern of our President systematically making accusations lacking evidence.
For instance, in the case of this specific news item, AP News could have run the headline “Trump Delivers Another Accusation Without Evidence, This Time Against Obama.” CNN could have introduced the story by focusing on Trump’s pattern of making serial allegations of immoral and illegal actions by his political opponents without any evidence, focusing this time on his predecessor. Then, deeper in the article where the shallow skimmers do not reach, the story could have detailed the allegations made by Trump. This style of media coverage would make Trump less inclined to make such claims, as he would not get the impact he wants."
Hope the media gets to work on better reporting and defeating lies passed to use by a Fake President.
Here is a seeming duplicate of the January psychology of lying article.
"Supporting Trump: The Psychology of the Lie"
S. Novi, 27 June 2017
https://democracyguardian.com/supporting-trump-the-psychology-of-the-lie-46f15bfd312b
"Why People Blindly Believe the Lies?
Unlike other professions, lying is associated with politics. The general public makes the assumption that politicians will inherently lie to attract a vote and therefore it is part of the process of acceptance. In any other realm, lying would be an atrocity that would result in outrage. We expect truth in everything that we buy and invest in, except for politics.
Although various politicians have been rated for the lies that have been told, Trump has taken this to an entirely new level. He knows how the human brain reacts to lying and has banked on it."
Is there more to this article? Yes.
"“Upon first hearing a lie, your brain must accept it as truth. Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert has theorized that to do the work of separating truth and lies, our brains first must accept the false statement as if it were true; otherwise, it’s impossible to engage with it. “For instance, if someone were to tell us — hypothetically, of course — that there had been serious voter fraud in Virginia during the presidential election, we must for a fraction of a second accept that fraud did, in fact, take place,” [psychologist, Maria] Konnikova explains. “Only then do we take the second step, either completing the mental certification process (yes, fraud!) or rejecting it (what? no way).”
If you hear a lie often enough, it starts to sound true. According to what’s called the “illusory truth effect,” the more you hear a false statement, the truer it starts to sound. This is even true when you should know better. In a fascinating, if disheartening, 2015 study, researchers showed that if people repeated the phrase “The Atlantic Ocean is the largest ocean on Earth” enough times, the Atlantic Ocean did indeed begin to seem like the largest ocean on Earth.”
“A constant stream of lies becomes so mentally taxing that your brain gives up. “It’s called cognitive load,” Konnikova writes, meaning that “our limited cognitive resources are overburdened.” Lie detection is difficult work, and your brain can only handle so much.”"
More.
"Using the Term ‘Fake News’ To Validate the Lies
One additional psychological ploy that has had historical success is in the development of followers based on conveying that the individual alone is telling the truth. This assists in creating a ‘cult’ and during the 2016 Presidential campaign, the concept of ‘fake news’ participated in this behavior both from American and foreign shores.
The social behavior of human beings involves the desire to belong to a group that shares their common beliefs. For those that harbor anger against society for not giving them what they feel is their due, they look for someone to offer the answers and in doing so, create a cult following in which everyone supports their leader’s beliefs and discards all else."
