I suspect on some level, Scott Adams likes the idea that all humans are “dirty, rotten liars” because it eases his fear that he might be more of a liar than some of his adversaries.
I'm half joking, btw. So no offense intended.
Then he uses the same techniques to promote Trump. Which is fine. People can support whichever candidate. But Adams adamantly denied his support.
I've learnt a lot reading his articles about the way the current crop of republican politicians are operating. He is one of the few people making sense and understanding the zeitgeist of half the American people. I'm not a trump fan fwiw, you can take this more in the Sun Zu sense:
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
I'd like to point out that this is wildly overstated.
~59.7% of eligible voters voters cast a ballot in 2016.[0]
Of those votes cast, Donald Trump received ~46.1% of those votes or 62,979,879 votes.[1] So Donald Trump represents at the least the zeitgeist of ~27.5% of eligible voters.
It's hard to determine how he represents the zeitgeist of non-voting-eligible inhabitants of the US but when you compare his popular vote total to the total population of the country, or ~323,100,000 in 2016, one can claim with certainty that Trump represents the zeitgeist of at least ~19.5% of the country.
I point this out because it is often said that Donald Trump represents half the country, likely because he was the candidate of one of the two major political parties in this country and 1/2 is 50%.
However repeating this falsehood of Trump representing the beliefs of half the country lends legitimacy to Trump and his agenda that is unearned and provides cover to people who would like to believe that the beliefs they share with Donald Trump enjoy some sort of popularity that is more widespread than can be justified.
The same is true of course for Hillary Clinton and those Americans that cast their ballot for her, though of course the breakdown would be very slightly larger in her favor given her winning of the popular vote by some ~3,000,000 votes.
[0]http://www.electproject.org/2016g
[1]http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/21/politics/donald-trump-hillary-...
It's a funny comic and it doesn't need to be taken literally. That is it exaggerates to tell a story. You do know what Dilbert is, right? How did we end up going from that to maybe "Scot Adams" is a dirty, rotten liar? Do you know some extra info about him to support it.
As an author one doesn't necessarily have identify with all the characters and ideas in the story. For example I might not like or enjoy potty humor but my kids like it, so I'll tell them jokes to amuse them because I enjoy seeing them laugh. Doesn't mean I am a dirty liar.