In the 1980s, my buddies and I adored Friday nights TV shows. They were excellent.  ,
CBS and ABC would dedicate their Friday night primetime lineup to teens and preteens, albeit without too much originality: for a while, rich white people adopting adorable black kids was inexplicably popular ( I was a” Webster” guy more than a “Diff’rent Strokes” guy ). After that, tales about great trucks took over. ( “Knight Rider” and” Dukes of Hazard” were my favorites. )
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A small red light that travels back and forth is also what I want.
However, the reading for these programs became VERY sluggish because they were geared toward children. I think there was an episode of” Dukes” where Bo and Luke Duke were suspected of transporting moonshine: Boss Hogg ( the bad guy ) was chasing them through hairpin turns, dirt roads, and crazy off-road jumps, and when they finally cornered the Duke boys and opened the trunk … all those moonshine bottles were broken.
“Ain’t no regulation once transporting broken containers, Boss Hogg. We gotta permit’ em go”.
” Oooh, dagnabbit! Curse republican Duke kids! They done hit meaga’n”!
But even as a little kid, I was of,” Well. That was kind of immediate”.
Weirdly, that aspect of the show was probably the most practical: when tipping items occur, they tend to be serious. They don’t occur lineally and steadily, instead, they often take underlying beneath the surface.  ,
Manifesting beyond your field of vision, they accrue in power and speed, awaiting the best time to come.  ,
And when they strike, they strike tight.
Malcom Gladwell is condescending and self-serving, but he’s a terrible writer. His book,” The Tipping Point”, was a runaway success, selling 1.7 million copies, and was named one of the 100 best books of the 21st century. In it, Gladwell attempted to understand the source of paying points: Why they happen, what causes them, and how we should make.
The problem is, tipping items aren’t measurable. It’s a standing denoted after the truth, once the “tipping place” has already occurred. All Gladwell can really do is tell us entertaining stories about past political “tipping points” ( which is his power: he’s a magnificent writer ), and explain a few similarities between’ em.
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But story isn’t knowledge.  ,
You can’t learn Gladwell’s book and make reliable, trustworthy estimates about when the next “tipping stage” will look. His” theories” don’t have predictive value.
” The Tipping Point” was released in 2000. That was 25 years earlier. As far as I know, nobody has used Gladwell’s text to effectively identify ANY potential paying points. Instead, “tipping points” remain mysterious, impossible to track, and ( apparently ) random. They’re more tantamount to Hemingway’s outline of debt:” How did you get penniless? Two way. Slowly, then suddenly”.
And this brings us to the edge of Trump’s opening.
Although it has not received much fanfare, the world is beginning to realize that it has been” sleepwalking through another “tipping place” moment: the rise of the right and the progressive left’s world collapse.
As my devoted coworker Matt Margolis put it monday:
Left-leaning events received a record-low average of 45 % in 73 democratic elections worldwide last year, according to a report from The Telegraph. In the United States and Western Europe, the numbers were even worse, with leftist parties securing just 42 % of the vote compared to 57 % for right-leaning parties. These outcomes highlight a popular disillusionment with the media’s growing extreme positions.
The New York Post offered a similar research:
In the midst of Harris ‘ defeat, communist parties in Canada, Australia, and Germany are now predicted to endure related losses in future ballots.
” The pattern is off. There is no actual reason to expect that it will stop whenever quickly”, Prof. Matthijs Rooduijn, a political scientist from the University of Amsterdam, told the outlet.
Polls are now indicating that Pierre Poilievre, the country’s firebrand Liberal leader, will be the favorite to succeed Justin Trudeau as prime minister, following the left leader’s dramatic resignation earlier this month.
However, Australia’s conservative party has even inched forward of its ruling liberal government prior to a prepared vote later this year, polls show.
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Just as” The Revolution Will Not Be Televised“, neither are tipping points. By description, they’re the purest expression of community anxiety, dreams, fears, and frustrations.  ,
They’re pure, no manufactured.
The media is vulnerable to intensity, and stories that elicit strong emotional responses are typically the ones that get the most attention. The best policy is obtained for the loudest yells.
But intensity , and popularity , are two very different things.
The power of antagonism to MAGA, Trump, and the right was significant. ( It still is! ) The persons who detested Trump in 2020 still despise him now. He’s also “practically Hitler” and also a “wannabe tyrant intent on Armageddon”.
However, the press neglected to follow the pain points of everyone else while focused on the power of the Trump-haters.
People were suffering. Prices was sky-high. Accommodation had gotten so expensive that it was out of control. The border was a disaster, international risks were growing, the American dream was dying.
As were the dreams ( and dreamers ) in Western Europe: their best and brightest had lost hope, too.
PR has its uses, but you shouldn’t confuse” spin” with reality. Nobody will want to have a cake if the icing on it is mud and dirt, though PR is the icing on it. Let me stream my inward Antoinette: If the people want eat bread, later you’ve gotta give’ em cake!
However, the world left kept pouring clay at us and saying it was delightful.
Bidenomics was a great success! The market was wonderful! America is again! The most influential president in history is Biniden!
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None of it was real.
All the remaining delivered was broken promises, shattered goals, and impoverished life. Not just in America, but globally.
And so, on a warm winter trip in the middle of January, the people of earth awoke from their slumber, threw open their windows and exclaimed,” Hey, appear! A paying level”!
