(February 6, 2017 at 11:35 am)CanOfMountainDew Wrote:(February 6, 2017 at 11:28 am)Aegon Wrote: Uh yeah, sort of. Gaslighting is a term in the poli sci community to describe the way populist leaders try to totally discredit the media so that the people get their information directly from the leader.
What is he supposed to do - tell everyone that the media that hates him is justified in hating him lol? The media seeks to discredit him and so he will seek to discredit them. Makes sense to me. I mean he could just go full dictator and ban all media that isn't government
And in the UK he is close to being banned from Parliament for his racist views.
This is by the speaker of the house of commons, not a biased media outlet.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38884604
I fully expect Trump to go "full dictator".
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
