RE: Trump Explained
December 10, 2015 at 1:56 pm
(This post was last modified: December 10, 2015 at 2:01 pm by JuliaL.)
It is an unfortunate fact of our democracy that the electorate is widely and disparately fragmented.
To achieve a plurality, much more so for a majority, it is necessary to tell enough fragments each what it wants to hear. When the fragments so addressed have completely incompatible views, to get elected, a politician must lie to at least one of them. Then it is necessary to hide this and deny it when discovered.
It is only since the advent of fact checkers and widely disseminated information from varied sources and through varied filters that this situation has been widely revealed. A good example of this was the Romney's 47% event in the 2012 campaign.
I blame the Regan campaign for bringing in the lunatic fringe in to tip the balance of power towards the Republican party. Once the camel was invited into the tent, it was only a matter of time until its purest ideologues took over. They're evil, but effective, and many followers will follow. Fear mongering speaks to the reptile brain and serves to aggregate the newly faithful who otherwise might not follow the herd.
To achieve a plurality, much more so for a majority, it is necessary to tell enough fragments each what it wants to hear. When the fragments so addressed have completely incompatible views, to get elected, a politician must lie to at least one of them. Then it is necessary to hide this and deny it when discovered.
It is only since the advent of fact checkers and widely disseminated information from varied sources and through varied filters that this situation has been widely revealed. A good example of this was the Romney's 47% event in the 2012 campaign.
I blame the Regan campaign for bringing in the lunatic fringe in to tip the balance of power towards the Republican party. Once the camel was invited into the tent, it was only a matter of time until its purest ideologues took over. They're evil, but effective, and many followers will follow. Fear mongering speaks to the reptile brain and serves to aggregate the newly faithful who otherwise might not follow the herd.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? 
