Civics: Scapegoating the US could be the final act of Europe’s delusional elite
Apparently it’s all Donald Trump’s fault that Europe is feeling suddenly vulnerable, Ukraine may be sold down the swanny and the world might implode with the end of Nato. If only the orange fella had not gone into politics, had not ridden down the golden escalator, Europe could have continued marching towards utopia, untroubled by populists, fascists and the other troublemakers who keep interfering with our dreams of a compassionate, enlightened, welfare-provisioned nirvana.
Delusional, sadly, doesn’t do justice to much of the commentary in the days since the world view of what Dominic Cummings calls the “insider class” crumpled in the time it took for the first exit poll to detonate through the airwaves. Only Orwell, or perhaps Swift, could adequately satirise the cognitive dissonance
SNL 2016
2/ The left has never fully grappled with the wreckage of fifty years of neoliberalism, which has left legions of Americans adrift as local places are hollowed out, rapacious profit seeking cannibalizes the common good, and unchecked new technology separates and isolates us.
Heard a joke on NPR: The #Democrats started as the party of farmers, became the party of the factories, and are now the party of the faculty club. A better explanation of electoral outcomes than foreign interference.
And why do the same people who demanded vaccine IDs for you to do anything, are the same ones who say ‘No ID for voting!’
Why is the MSM dangerous?
Explicit State Propaganda does not work (e.g. Soviet Pravda) because it is too visible. MSM gives us the illusion of free info: lobbies bully professionally fragile journalists who can be black/greylisted hence unemployable & create a monoculture.
