Donald is Shifting the Balance Toward K

As others see K-stimuli, they begin to become more K themselves. Case in point, Huckabee.

Mike Huckabee swatted down a suggestion today that he’s making bombastic statements in order to siphon off voters from Donald Trump.

‘No, I’m not trying to cater to that anger,’ he told reporters at a press conference.

‘I am angry. I’m angry because this country has screwed over a lot of people, like the people I talked about today… like people that I meet every day on the campaign trail, who are working just crappy jobs that pay them nothing.’

I’m struck by the use of “crappy.” I’m naturally profane. Looking at it now, it I think I have always recognized subconsciously that profanity is a way to attach an amygdala flag to something you want to emphasize. As such, I have just viewed it as another tool of communication. One which diminishes in power the more you use it, but a useful tool nonetheless, at times.

When society is r, and everyone is avoiding amygdala stimulation, there is a push to avoid employing amygdala-stimulating phrasing. As things turn K, people need an outlet to release stress, and focus those around them on the problems at hand. Adding an expletive before something you want to destroy, or punctuating an important idea with a few choice words can accomplish that, and is probably an emotional precursor on a scale that heads toward breaking out the maces and battle-axes, and going after it for real.

Here, Huckabee is letting loose with “crappy,” which is a word on the spectrum that heads toward a Patton-esque string of epithets and expletives, and ends at a fusillade of gunfire and explosions. Our society is heading in a more aggressive direction, fueled by, as Huckabee noted, anger, which is itself amygdala stimulation driving action.

Maybe this is Huckabee just trying to find a winning formula. But I will say, in debate, I feel a much more aggressive, profane, callous attitude toward others than I did a few months back. If I were a politician immersed in this stuff, I could easily see timidity at the thought of angering the press turn into callous disregard, and a much more blunt presentation.

If Monday’s polls show Trump still winning, then I would expect that we will see other politicians go much more on the attack, and begin to sate that anger within. As they do, I’d expect the mood of the nation to become more aggressive. The fluffy snowflakes who can’t take aggression will be cowed into silence, instead of bitching loudly every time they feel “triggered” by someone else’s insensitivity. Finally, I’d expect to see liberals begin to grow uncomfortable engaging within our political debate.

All of this is due to Trump, whose success is itself, the product of deeper forces at work within our society.

Apocalypse cometh™