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Originally Posted by dead_battery
also, it all comes down to baudrillard.
you have 2 basic narratives of reality being sold to people who can chose which to buy, and they are diverging so much that its becoming impossible for any kind of consensual reality to be agreed upon. the trumpenproletarians will claim it was rigged, and its becoming ever more difficult for their to be an official narrative, which trump, the liar, is exploiting
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Pretty fucking well said.
And that's the rub, really. Trump is manipulating the public's feeling of helplessness, and exploiting that feeling by adding to it... yes, feeding them a version of realty that gives them the impression that someone out here wants to expose what's really going on. But just by believing it, they're becoming even more detached from reality as it truly is, and more invested in the narratives they're fed.
Trump is, if nothing else, a successful *cekebrity* (not business man, not philanthropist, not politician). He knows how to spin and how tease useful narratives out of shit situations. And I don't trust the American people enough to believe that they'll see that all Trump is offering them is MORE of what he claims he wants to fight. He's betting on people not being able to make that connection.