Ted Cruz Triggers Amygdalae

Cruz triggers the base:

… the Obama administration’s support for trans students amounts to “lunacy!”

“Look, these guys are so nutty that the federal government is going after school districts, trying to force them to let boys shower with little girls,” Cruz responded. “Now listen: I’m the father of two daughters, and the idea that the federal government is coming in saying that boys, with all the God-given equipment of boys, can be in the shower room with junior high girls — this is lunacy!”

“And I bet you there are a whole lot of parents — particularly parents of daughters — that are not eager to have the federal government saying, ‘Guess what? Your daughter has to shower with a boy, if he wants to be in there,’” Cruz continued….

“You know, the funny thing is, my 5-year-old knows there’s a difference between boys and girls,” Cruz quipped. “And yet modern Leftists can’t figure that out.”

This is brilliant. It triggers amygdalae, in-groups Cruz with parents and the decent, out-groups liberals and democrats with freakish child molesters who want to sexualize innocent young girls, and as it triggers amygdalae, it also makes the answer to gain relief apparent – support Ted Cruz. It even demeans liberals as stupid, in an almost subconscious, humorous way.

This is an identical mechanism to how Donald began his candidacy with a massive bump due to illegal immigration. Donald in-grouped himself with those who oppose murders, drugs, and rapes by foreigners, while triggering listeners with the presentation of threat. He out-grouped Democrats with foreign deviants who wanted to attack innocent Americans, all while offering the solution to relief – supporting him. His rise in the polls was instantaneous.

This is the move that people have been talking about Cruz making. If he has a raft of these amygdala-triggering issues cooked up to in-group the base, and begins dropping them one after another, he could begin to close the gap with Trump, though Trump’s celebrity and his long-time use of these techniques will make it difficult at this point to overtake him.

Whoever of those two wins, the cuckservative establishment is scrambling to be nice and appeal to people kindly – and achieving nothing. As this site predicted, Donald has created a vastly more aggressive, vastly less conciliatory debate, and the Republican nomination will not be the same for a long time to come.

That is nothing but good for freedom.