Obama, Conformity, and the Asch Effect

Are people conforming to following Barack Obama even though they know it is wrong?  Research would suggest that could be the case.  The Asch Conformity Experiment is a case in point.

Solomon Asch experimented with the power of conformity in 1953. Those taking part in the study were told that they were part of a vision test with a handful of others. The participants were then shown pictures.  Then they were asked very simple and obvious questions. Here is the catch. Everybody else in the room other than the subject was in on it, and they were were told to give wrong answers. So would people go against the crowd, even when the crowd was clearly wrong?

Here is a sample question.  People were asked to select the line that was exactly like the the one on the left. Thirty-two percent of subjects answered incorrectly if three others in the classroom gave the same wrong answer.  This is the Asch Effect.

We all know Barack Obama is inexperienced and nothing but a political neophyte.  He is wrong for America in so many ways - taxes, socialism, leftist, civil liberties, demogaguery, and more.  Yet, once he amassed his media and internet crowd, the Asch effect seems to be taking place.  People are afraid to go against the crowd even though it is an obviously wrong choice. Worse yet, even though his executive experience is less than Sarah Palin, she is considered “bad” and he is considered “good”, because that is the “popular” viewpoint.

Is it the Asch Effect?  You decide.

Osama bin Laden and his Muslim millions are targeting the world’s schools and targeting school children: They ARE coming to ours, too, and very soon.

Terror at Beslan: A Russian Tragedy with Lessons for America’s Schools [Paperback] by John Giduck. Beslan is NOT a one-off; not before, not now and not in the abyss-like vortex of the coming MUSLIM made assault on our children and schools.

Ok. Now listen up fellow citizens of the amazingly still free Western Canon, currently under a relentless asymetrical assault by the Marxist Left and the totalitarian Death Cults of Islam. As the title says, little is known by most anyone about the full story of Beslan and Islam. Nope, not a tedious conspiracy bore, but the simple fact of the stratospheric nihilistic child murdering nature of Islam itself and by default millions of Muslims who practice it.

The awesomely qualified, profoundly experienced and empirical scholar John Giduck has the most in depth and witheringly terrible book on it all. The twist is that there is enormous evidence that true Muslims are planning a massive and co-ordinated assault on American schools. Yes they are. Just like Beslan. And just like they ALREADY do across the world. This is Islam. Buy the book. Read it. Accept it and ACT effectively as the book directs.

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Fonda Is Weeping, Jong Is In Spasm-All Because Of Pre-Election Madness.

I have gone on record as an author, a therapist, a professor, an expert courtroom witness - and an activist to document and oppose the ways in which false psychiatric diagnoses are used to stigmatize, even demonize people. But, I’ve never denied that mental illness exists. On the contrary. It is a formidable enemy and causes great human suffering.

Still, I am uncertain about how to describe certain political “crowd” behaviors that might be characterized as “mad,” cult-like, hysterical. In the Wall Street Journal, Fouad Ajami, quotes Elias Cannetti’s 1960 work about Crowds and Power. Cannetti believes that marching together gives people the “illusion of equality.” But Ajami views American pro-Obama crowds as behaving more and more like crowds on the Arab Street, with huge emotionality and faith in a Great Leader. Ajami states that the “politics of charisma wrecked Arab and Muslim societies.”

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