You Damn Hypercrite! Hidden Camera Catches GOP Congressman, Anti-Trump PAC ‘Makes It Go Viral’

If they’d have openly and obviously stuck a mic in this congressman’s face while holding a visible video camera on him they’d have gotten the same answers.

The thing I find interesting about this is that these anomalous anti-Trump weirdos think this is anything remarkable at all. Let alone so remarkable as to be scandalous.

This is a symptom of what I call ‘The Bubble Culture Phenomena’. We’ve all heard the phrase ‘echo chamber’ many times before. The Bubble Culture is an echo chamber dosed with mega-steroids and Bruce Banner-esque gamma radiation turning it into a large green monster that only wants to smash things.

People have a natural tendency to clump up with other like minded people and then exclude any information that doesn’t suit their confirmation bias while replacing reality with their own invented version of the world. Everyone does this to some degree but the people who succumb to this fully are not the brightest candles in the jack-o-lantern. From that sort you get some really wild cognitive disconnects.

Examples would be the Ku Klux Klan, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the Weather Underground, etc. Clearly this Scott Dworkin PAC and their Under Current ripoff of Project Veritas fits in this category.

Groups like this tend to cluster together and create a feedback loop among themselves. They often assign nefarious purpose to mundane situations because it feeds their narrative. When there is no mundanity to reinterpret they just make things up.

This is not a problem solely of our political adversaries. Conservative leaning people do this too. It’s a universal aspect of the human condition not merely something done by people we don’t like. We all suffer in some degree with confirmation bias. The thing is to measure bias against what makes sense and what is more likely than not.

One of the things I personally like about Bill & Co. is that we usually get several takes on the topic. Bill is a very pragmatic guy. Scott studies a broad range of sources and brings alternate viewpoints to the table. Steve is good at giving us the straight dope from a Conservative viewpoint. For a conservative outlet we get a very good, brief view of reality viewed through a conservative lens.

All of that works together to keep the membership here from becoming a Bubble Culture. It probably costs the enterprise more than a few subscriptions too but that’s the price of trying to portray reality rather than just sell people what they want to hear.

In the most recent Stratosphere Lounge, Bill addressed the likelihood of America heading for a nuclear war with Russia. As far as I’ve been able to tell and I’ve done considerable research on the topic — Bill got it exactly right and put things in terms that I have been using myself. GMTA

Scott tries to broaden our views and keep us grounded in reality. I don’t always agree with Scott but I greatly appreciate that he makes the effort. For doing that Scott is sometimes pilloried even by the membership here and is very often the focus of hate out in the wild where these videos post on YouTube. This is not right. Scott bravely sticks to his guns, and reality, and his own principles to keep us grounded.

Steve is more than a little like us having our own personal Andrew Breitbart.

This team was selected well.

A big part of avoiding something like a Bubble Culture is simply being aware of the phenomena. Which is why I took the trouble to explain all this here in my comment.