Alarm response
Convective thought:

Sorosian media are most demonic about Trump actions that are nearly indistinguishable from Obama actions.

Trump wants to expand deportations slightly, which Obama had already expanded hugely from Bush. KKK NAZI HITLER TROLL HORRIFYING TERRIFYING!

Trump wants to add more length to the ALREADY LONG Mexican wall. KKK NAZI HITLER TROLL HORRIFYING TERRIFYING!

Trump wants to get along better with Russia**, which Obama was already doing. KKK NAZI HITLER TROLL HORRIFYING TERRIFYING!

Trump wants to continue existing lunatic "protections" for nonexistent "trans" things, without any changes at all. KKK NAZI HITLER TROLL HORRIFYING TERRIFYING!

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When Trump takes an action that is ENTIRELY NEW, never even contemplated by Bush or Clinton or Obama, the media can't get tremendously excited. These changes are noted with disgust and distaste, but they don't turn into THE STORY OF THE CENTURY.

Jobs for Americans? Totally alien concept.

Rebuild dams instead of tearing them down? Totally alien concept.

Allow policemen to survive and do their jobs? Waaaaaaaaaaay beyond alien.

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Obviously this is an instantiation of Freud's Small Differences. Our nervous systems are designed to detect and sound alarms for small deltas within known and familiar ranges. When the room temperature drops by 2 degrees we notice it. When a vowel formant changes from 3100 cps to 3200 cps we notice it. When a fashionable celebrity gains 2 pounds we notice it.

We're not designed to detect a difference that doesn't fit an existing template. We may notice it if it's forced on our attention, but we probably won't grasp the entirety and won't have a pre-formed alarm response for it. We can't tell the difference between tones in Chinese because we don't have a template for them. We can't tell the difference between a male and female aphid because we don't have the template.

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I strongly suspect that Trump's PR people understand this, and know how to keep the SmallDiffs rolling.


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** As of this afternoon, it's no longer clear that Trump wants to get along better with Russia. This was half of the reason for his election. Less war, more jobs. Now that he's sacrificed half of his mandate, he'd better get FEROCIOUSLY BUSY on the other half, bringing industries back. Otherwise we might as well have Hillary.
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