There's so many facets to this election one can reflect on but if the liberals really (and I mean REALLY) want to understand what happened at a gut level this Tuesday, the above quote from a long-dead Dane says so much...
No, this country isn't anywhere near what the days of Yellow Journalism brought it in terms of misinformation and outright propaganda....not yet. Where it is at, though, is at a rather ugly place where rude, condescending derision seems to take the place of legitimate, thought-provoking discourse. Both sides practice it, for sure but it seems to have become a high art form for a well-publicized cult on the left. "Snark Club", let's call them. Some of it's distinguished members?
Jon Stewart Bill Maher John Oliver...and half of Facebook.
I'll lump a number of journalists and popular left-leaning op-ed figures in the media there as well. The disdain and outright derision shown to the plebs by this particular collective finally reached it's zenith and is largely responsible for the results seen this Tuesday.
Trump isn't that attractive of a candidate to vote for, at least not for any principled conservative or one schooled to any reasonable degree. He's just not...
What he is, though, is a vote against those labeling so many as "deplorables" and treating them as such. Casting the rural and arguably simpler folk aside and treating those in the "fly over states" as something to be walked over. There's only so many times the media and "pop-news" personalities can take a metaphorical shit on half the population before they finally respond in kind.
I honestly believe once the vote is dissected a bit further, it will be found that so many in the "fly over" states and the rural areas of this country finally had their fill of being type-cast as bumpkins, retards, miscreants, fools, misogynists, racists, etc. to the exclusion of any other label. So pat yourself on the back, Stephen Colbert. That paycheck you and your writers cashed on the backs of your self-aggrandizing audiences is partially responsible for giving you an electoral map full of red.
Where's that "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" banner they rolled out for Bush, Jr. on the aircraft carrier before the Iraq War went to complete, utter shit? The DNC have need of it to hang in their headquarters for the next 4 years. It would fit well in the halls of the New York Times, CNN, Washington Post and a number of other media outlets who took it upon themselves to try and MAKE news rather than report it.
Think twice when you kick Ego and Superego to the curb and invite Id to party during the next election, DNC. Same goes to the RNC, if they are going to start pulling this shit.
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"One you label me, you negate me"
- Soren Kierkegaard
That's why Trump won, in my book.
There's so many facets to this election one can reflect on but if the liberals really (and I mean REALLY) want to understand what happened at a gut level this Tuesday, the above quote from a long-dead Dane says so much...
No, this country isn't anywhere near what the days of Yellow Journalism brought it in terms of misinformation and outright propaganda....not yet. Where it is at, though, is at a rather ugly place where rude, condescending derision seems to take the place of legitimate, thought-provoking discourse. Both sides practice it, for sure but it seems to have become a high art form for a well-publicized cult on the left. "Snark Club", let's call them. Some of it's distinguished members?
Jon Stewart ...and half of Facebook.
Bill Maher
John Oliver
I'll lump a number of journalists and popular left-leaning op-ed figures in the media there as well. The disdain and outright derision shown to the plebs by this particular collective finally reached it's zenith and is largely responsible for the results seen this Tuesday.
Trump isn't that attractive of a candidate to vote for, at least not for any principled conservative or one schooled to any reasonable degree. He's just not...
What he is, though, is a vote against those labeling so many as "deplorables" and treating them as such. Casting the rural and arguably simpler folk aside and treating those in the "fly over states" as something to be walked over. There's only so many times the media and "pop-news" personalities can take a metaphorical shit on half the population before they finally respond in kind.
I honestly believe once the vote is dissected a bit further, it will be found that so many in the "fly over" states and the rural areas of this country finally had their fill of being type-cast as bumpkins, retards, miscreants, fools, misogynists, racists, etc. to the exclusion of any other label. So pat yourself on the back, Stephen Colbert. That paycheck you and your writers cashed on the backs of your self-aggrandizing audiences is partially responsible for giving you an electoral map full of red.
Where's that "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" banner they rolled out for Bush, Jr. on the aircraft carrier before the Iraq War went to complete, utter shit? The DNC have need of it to hang in their headquarters for the next 4 years. It would fit well in the halls of the New York Times, CNN, Washington Post and a number of other media outlets who took it upon themselves to try and MAKE news rather than report it.
Think twice when you kick Ego and Superego to the curb and invite Id to party during the next election, DNC. Same goes to the RNC, if they are going to start pulling this shit.