RE: What's your thoughts on Trump?
February 26, 2017 at 1:12 pm
(This post was last modified: February 26, 2017 at 1:14 pm by Zenith.)
(February 26, 2017 at 12:40 pm)abaris Wrote: As it happened with 9/11. The press took a long time to recover from all out patriotism mode. As Hermann Göring said to Gilbert in the prison of Nuremberg. Say what you want about him. He wasn't an idiot.
I believe that the greatest mistake people can make now is to underestimate Trump. That's the mistake Obama also made when he laughed "At least I'll go down as a president." It happens not too seldom that a guy or a party with fewer chances wins because the other side are convinced it's got no chance.
Trump is not an idiot. Or at least his counselors are tough guys. After all, it takes something to build up a propaganda that makes you the president of USA, doesn't it? One may laugh of the absurd things he says, but let's face it, when he speaks those things he doesn't speak to us, he speaks to his supporters.
As of the press, I think they've got a huge power, and sometimes they don't even realize it. In their hunt for "ratings" they can mess up a whole country. I try to imagine how it would've been like if the pressed had ignored Trump during his whole campaign, and avoid interviewing him and hearing him and discussing about the shocking things he was saying. Trump was actually doing marketing - attracting people, telling everybody who he is. And from everything everyone threw back at him, "racist", "xenophobic", and so on, he managed to deflect, making it to look like he, along with his supporters, were the victims of an evil system, and that all he needed was the votes, in order to restore the world back to justice and freedom. A similar thing happened with the syrian refugees and the terrorist attacks: the press had a very powerful impact. And the press can make you feel like the political "establishment" is against you (if they skip important bad things), and it can also make you feel like your country is being invaded by barbarians (if they show much of the bad things that happen). But they're hunting for ratings, aren't they?
(February 26, 2017 at 1:05 pm)Napoléon Wrote: In my view, the idea of anyone being more corrupt than Clinton is indeed the hilarious one.
Anyone in USA, you mean, right?
