Reply To: Donald Trump
And yet, we are the ones who are so frequently criticized for being ignorant or naive regarding the inner workings of other countries.
I think this is even true for Americans, being ignorant of how things work in their own country. I’ve avoided 95% of Trump news, not even believing he’s gained ground (until recently). I’m pissed at 1) Americans who love him for being “just like us”, and 2) the American mass media who cater to the sensationalism.
Think conservative talk shows, and what comes to mind is Faux News and arrogant, hateful narratives even outside of Faux News. The people who believe so strongly in traditionalist idealism (i.e. “I got mine, and the poor deserve their poverty”) are the same blind idiots who have no clue that other points of view can be valid, or positive. In fact “liberals hate America”, or shouldn’t even be called American. (Oh yeah, so I just thought of the term “Faux Americans”.)
American media produces that freak show, for profit, as the arrogant right and other freak show lovers eat it up. Trump just knows how to play the media game better than anyone.
The GOP itself is blind to the dangerously conservative wing’s pathology, just as petrol-funded theocracies in the Middle East are blind to non-theocratic ways to govern. Tradition beats Progress, in ultra-conservative minds. This part, I’d like to keep secret: Trump-like blindness will win GOP primaries as they draw rabid ultra and neo-conservatives, but they’ll lose the general election. The red states look really big and powerful on the map, but they don’t reflect population density.
