Remember in the late 1990's when "science" was telling us that the Atkins diet was quackery. They knew, everyone knew, that the way to be healthy and trim was to eat low fat, high carb. I mean, this was science, people. Meanwhile, you, me, everyone reading this knew someone who went on the Atkins diet and not only lost weight, but lost it fast. By the early 2000s science surrendered to fact. Fat does not make you fat, and your health is mostly a result of your genetics.
Bear with me here.
A few weeks ago polls were telling us that Hillary! was not only ahead, but way ahead. Meanwhile you, me, everyone reading this knows people who love Mr. Trump. We've seen the yard signs and bumper stickers pop up all over the place. Let's not even get to these raucous rallies of 10, 20, 30,000 people, standing in line for hours to see Mr. Trump. Meanwhile Hillary! – well, she gets a few hundred osteoporosis-stricken baby boomers. Something is going on here.
I am reminded of the great P.J. O'Rourke, who I first read at the age of 19 in 1992, writing about the Nicaraguan election of 1989. Polls there showed the Sandies were going to beat the Violetta Chmoro and the opposition UNO Party. Then on election day he saw people standing in line for hours to vote. O'Rourke confessed that he made the mistake of believing opinion polls in a country where it was illegal to hold certain opinions. The UNO romped, btw.
Anyone who thinks it is not illegal to hold certain opinions here in Obama's America is a fool.
I'm going to tell you another story:
New York City, 1948. A young Mark Stroock II is walking down the street when he gets caught up in a big rally of angry, PO'd city workers who have been told by their union bosses to attend the political rally or else. It's 5:30 and these guys are angry and ready to throw beer bottles. Up to the podium steps the embattled President Harry S. Truman, whom Gallup has assured the nation is going to lose badly. By the end of that rally Truman had those angry city union workers chanting his name and cursing their boss, Governor Thomas E. Dewey. Mark Stroock bet his friends Give em Hell Harry would win and got 8-1 odds.
Trump is going to win. We see the evidence everywhere. Don't believe "science". Believe your lyin' eyes.
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