Human are way more irrational that we care to believe, which is why all that exposure made people feel he was important which in turn increased the attention they paid to him and the chances of them voting for him.
It’s quite a common and massive error amongst the most politically-aware types to confuse the way in which politics are approached by themselves and others with whom the generally discuss politics (and it’s almost always other politically-aware types who care to discuss politics) with the way in which most people out there approach politics.
Marketing works, so it makes sense that when it comes to people who are not strongly political and hence basically relate to it as they would to brands, marketing in politics works.
It’s quite the hypersimplist take to look for a single entity to blame on a complex social subject. Blaming only Trump for this is like blaming murders in the US on only the murderers, ignoring the policies on guns in that country that make it more likely that murders get commited: those who only blame the murderers, by being bound by such an axiom, can only conclude that lower murder rates in other countries are because human beings in the US are somehow more prone to murdering that elsewhere, an interesting conclusion.
Shits do shit because they’re shits AND because they can, because they get away with it, because they’re better off doing shit and even because doing that kind of shit is lauded by the wider society. Only the first condition is due to the shits themselves, so you need to look elsewhere to find out why the remaining conditions are also true.
The US just has this strange mix of a less-than-Democratic Power Duopoly system, a Press totally captured by political forces and heavy on Propaganda, low average quality Education for a Developed nation and excessive nationalism and delusions of grandeur that makes people be a lot less critical than they should of the system they live in.
I expect that the average natural stupidity in the US is no greater than elsewhere, it just seems that stupidity goes a lot further there and learned stupidity is a lot more cultivated by mass media.
Human are way more irrational that we care to believe, which is why all that exposure made people feel he was important which in turn increased the attention they paid to him and the chances of them voting for him.
It’s quite a common and massive error amongst the most politically-aware types to confuse the way in which politics are approached by themselves and others with whom the generally discuss politics (and it’s almost always other politically-aware types who care to discuss politics) with the way in which most people out there approach politics.
Marketing works, so it makes sense that when it comes to people who are not strongly political and hence basically relate to it as they would to brands, marketing in politics works.
Irrationality isn’t an excuse. To me, blaming the media for Trump is like blaming candy makers for obesity.
Why not blame both?!
It’s quite the hypersimplist take to look for a single entity to blame on a complex social subject. Blaming only Trump for this is like blaming murders in the US on only the murderers, ignoring the policies on guns in that country that make it more likely that murders get commited: those who only blame the murderers, by being bound by such an axiom, can only conclude that lower murder rates in other countries are because human beings in the US are somehow more prone to murdering that elsewhere, an interesting conclusion.
Shits do shit because they’re shits AND because they can, because they get away with it, because they’re better off doing shit and even because doing that kind of shit is lauded by the wider society. Only the first condition is due to the shits themselves, so you need to look elsewhere to find out why the remaining conditions are also true.
I don’t blame the media because ‘pussy grabbing’ and ‘I like soldiers who didn’t get captured’ and all the rest were covered extensively.
The truth was out there, people chose to ignore it.
Honestly the US population is just so goddamn stupid it’s threatening our democracy.
This is happenning everywhere.
The US just has this strange mix of a less-than-Democratic Power Duopoly system, a Press totally captured by political forces and heavy on Propaganda, low average quality Education for a Developed nation and excessive nationalism and delusions of grandeur that makes people be a lot less critical than they should of the system they live in.
I expect that the average natural stupidity in the US is no greater than elsewhere, it just seems that stupidity goes a lot further there and learned stupidity is a lot more cultivated by mass media.