Proof?
Sure.
Here is a screenshot of the Google Newsfeed’s “Editors’ Picks” headline sidebar for The Good Grey Centrist Lady (aka The NY Times) as of 3/19/16 @ 3:40PM EDT:
We are now in the middle of the anti-Trump full court press effort. Trump 24/7 until he is beaten to a bloody pulp.
That’s the theory, anyway.
Will it work?
Stay tuned.
Nothing else has.
I doubt this will either.
Watch.
AG
I mean…really, folks!!!
The people who are supporting Trump…do they give a flying fuck about what the NY Times says?
No. In fact, this will just get him more supporters.
Will preaching to the (so-called liberal) choir do anything of substance whatsoever?
Of course not. Their hair is already on fire.
Lame.
AG
The apparent unwillingness to understand the mechanism of his appeal simply strengthens and broadens it.
Trump is not just exposing the moribund leadership of the GOP for self-serving, short-sighted fools, either. Now the media is being skewered and humiliated too. The Trump ‘press conferences’ in all their tackiness hold the media at once fixated and demeaned. His heedless tweets their breathless headlines.
How does it all end? By people realising they are paying for expensive infomercials produced by idiots, that’s how.
You write:
But Shaun…what if a majority of the population simply no longer has the mental or emotional capacity to be able to discern that truth? What if 3 or 4 generations of passively received, trance-based advertising and public misedumacation has produced a true Idiocracy?
And what if Trump understands that on an almost genetic level?
What then?
AG
That most ignorance is wilful. Ignorance may not be bliss but it is ‘duct-tape’ for belief systems which are showing signs of wear or stress. So, yeah, we’ve descended to cargo-cult lows with our prosperity Christians and so forth. But nobody wants to be a chump. Not ever.
And there’s soooo many chumps. The unravelling could take years. Once the curtain is pulled away (thanks, Donald) and we see the sausages being made all bets are off. The media too.
The GOP, the media, Hillary; they’re all off message and rattled. It shows. Think blood in the water; the only thing that kept the whole dog and pony show going was our sustained collective belief. But if nobody claps Tinkerbell dies.
You write:
Or…she turns into Godzilla. As Fats Waller always used to say:
Do one?
AG
I know one thing for certain: I don’t give a flying fuck what the NYT says.
And in the middle of all this is Bernie Sanders1