>>15524507 (lb)

Agree with the half anon.

My take, having lived often in Europe, is that there is a collective personality there that is disseminated via media. That is to say, there is the way that the "normal" person should view specific issues. People watch news, etc., to learn the correct "opinion" and how to respond to questions of that issue in public.

Problem is, that does not mesh at all with a spontaneous reacting human psyche, and people are constantly trying to cover up those spontaneous reactions with behavior that is more in line with how the collective should react.

It ends in with weird, snarky, sarcastic, completely hypocritical responses. My take anyway, and when I saw Brandeau's latest tirade it seemed to me that he's getting European coaching on how to respond. It's what they would do. Completely fake to a North American spontaneous thinker.

Spontaneous responses like, for example, Trump is able to pull off do are just more credible, whether you like the opinion or not. I think, generally, each individual has some highly liberal and some highly conservative opinions, and not uniform in representation across a populace, and that that averages out in a slightly left or right bias depending on if the person is urban or rural. Individuals vary to such a degree in their leanings on right/left labelled issues that any canned response, like Brandeau's latest, comes across as tone deaf. You can choose to ignore it on minor issues, but in an existential treat scenario it just crystallizes the front. I think Brandeau just pushed the case past any peaceful resolution and he's going to have to try to crush it with the military. It's too late for FF's, and if any are attempted it will only prove that the latest statement was a go signal.