OPINION:
We live in a time of blurred identities.
We are looking backward through “hindsight bias,” condemning the past with today’s values. The past loses its complexity as we project our bias over it. Our ignorance overrides our knowledge. It’s the cottage industry of “confirmation bias,” in which familiarity is indistinguishable from truth.
Bias is now formalized at the highest levels of education and government, thanks to those who simply change definitions whenever they please.
For example, “Democrat” and “Republican” have flipped in the past 60 years. Democrats have taken over the control and ideology of what the Republicans once ruled: commerce and banking. In the meantime, Republicans have become the party of the working class. Let’s just say that Barack Obama formalized this and Donald Trump filled the vacuum on the Republican side.
Despite his mannerisms, Mr. Trump is more noble than all the politicians who wormed their way to power with taxpayer dollars. Mr. Trump is his own man. He’s fighting for the people against hindsight and confirmation biases of the Democratic machine, George Soros, the Chinese Communist Party and all those who would love a piece of the American pie. These parties would like nothing more than to feed on the carcass of a dead America.
FRED STEWART
Grand Junction, Colorado
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