- a framework containing the basic assumptions, ways of thinking, and methodology that are commonly accepted by members of a scientific community.
- such a cognitive framework shared by members of any discipline or group:
- Establishment paradigm - the education, prejudice and politically correct opinions the establishment makes freely available from birth.
In other words, every political election I have ever witnessed has gone back to "business as usual" within a few days. Partisan supporters on both sides were willing to live with the outcome.
But not this time.
Fully half of the voters in the USA went into the election with only one possible outcome in mind-- the election of Hillary Clinton to the office of president. When it did not happen, public demonstrations, riots, foul language, declarations of suicide moves to Canada, burning cars, creating public mayhem resulted.
I would like to attempt an explanation and it has nothing to do with a preference for either candidate or the policies they advocate.
People like to feel that everything is right with their world and that their vote really does count. The establishment also want to have things right in their world and over time, and with great persistence and lots of money, they have inculcated what I will call a "correct paradigm" which serves their long term agenda. A false security is therefore guaranteed for the people, when the process is controlled by the establishment who, in an election put forward and fund candidates on both sides of the political center. Candidates who speak for real change, like Jill Stein of the Green Party are marginalized as un-electable, so that people will only vote for the two approved candidates.
This time round (2016) two candidates of dubious reputation were the options on November the 8th- Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump. Trump, a self declared candidate who the establishment, would not have run, paid for his own campaign and blew the approved Republican candidates out of the race.
The country then was left with only one approved and endorsed candidate and therefore the world, within which many live and have their comfort zone was threatened with instability. However the people soldiered on, mouthing all the support lines and assuring each other that no one outside the correct paradigm could possibly win. To do this, they had to skip over Wikileaks and its revelations about Pay for Play and top secret e-mails and corruption profits and package them as "conspiracy theories" that could easily be neutralized once their candidate Hilary Clinton was president. It seems that during an election, people really do not take criminal accusations seriously. Any reference to those things by Trump or 1000's of others had to be explained as just politics.
It was ok of course for most of these same people to believe the evil (and possibly true) stories surrounding Trump, because he was outside their paradigm and destined to lose because of the evil he has undoubtedly committed. So Hilary got off in the minds of Democrat voters as the victim of conspiracy theorists and Trump was condemned as a felon.
However on Tuesday night the world represented by the correct paradigm, was torn from its foundations because the guy who won the election could NOT possibly (to use the rallying cry) "be my president". There was only one acceptable candidate in the race ......and she lost. Many came unhinged; Normally mild mannered gentle people turned into raving foul mouth idiots, abandoning all courtesies and decorum because the unthinkable had happened. Almost as if a nuclear war had come upon them and they had (unfortunately for those who had to listen) lived through it.
Stop for a minute : this situation is a lot more scary than Trump in power. It shows that the conditioning that has inculcated the paradigm has worked. Such people are robots voting for either puppet that is put on the stage, no matter what their track record or their proposed agenda. They have ceased to think things through; they have no appetite for "alternate media" because it researches and proves things that contradict the correct paradigm; they blindly follow the paradigm which has assured them from birth that it must not be challenged. It is like gravity or the rotation of the earth- one should not imagine that you can change them. So all hell broke loose in their minds, because their anchor points (MSM, polls, pundits) were wrong in their predictions.
I'll finish with a little story from Canada which demonstrates that the paradigm discriminates not only against what is perceived as"the bad", but also against "the good". Months of sharing this video entitled the "Case against the Bank of Canada" to my knowledge has produced few vocal or active supporters. The Canadian Government is clearly breaking the law of the land and making everyone pay higher taxes than are required. The idea of borrowing from the country's national bank at 0% simply does not fit inside the correct paradigm .
You would think such an obvious benefit for all Canadians, would compel them to take to the streets and demonstrate their support for this initiative or tweet by thousands on social media.
To my knowledge "Words of support will just not come forth".
So the paradigm I refer to, produces vocal obscenities and violence as with the Americans over a disappointing election, and absolute silence and apathy with Canadians who should be insisting their government abide by the law of the land.
Why? Public opinion resides within the correct paradigm which often produces an unfortunate or unjust result .
