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Re:Trump wins 8 Months, 4 Weeks ago
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Downing Street Cat wrote:
Desperately sad day.

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Re:Trump wins 8 Months, 4 Weeks ago
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Downing Street Cat wrote:
JK2006 wrote:
Good winner's speech - typically Trump; breaking all the PR media rules, just being his rambling bonkers self. It will be interesting to see how his Presidency unfolds - will he, as I hope, destroy the false allegations industry and will the rest of the world follow his example? Will he stop Israel's madness in Gaza and Lebanon? Will he help the Rohingya? Will he persuade Putin to leave Ukraine? We shall see. Trump has been a cheerleader for the false allegations industry. He literally gloated over Weinstein. And his own false allegations of democrats rigging the system. The man has a phobia of the truth. If anything there will be a plague of false convictions in the next 4 years as he exercises his plan for revenge.
Again, absolutely no appreciation of how much this has been and is a shared problem. Do you really think the left is 'clean'? Do you really think, within the Establishment, there is a nice clear demarcation between the white hats and the black hats?
It's just as evident, this bizarre and preening self-delusion, among the media. Look at Emily Maitliss - a cynical two-stage election night self-advert posing as passionate journalism: first she launches into a pre-rehearsed attack on Boris Johnson, then 'inexplicably' for the experienced broadcaster she keeps saying she is, she starts swearing until she's kicked off the screen. Ooh, what a rebel. Trebles all round: she's celebrated as 'one of us,' one of those shouty North London professionals who rage at the stupidity of the masses.
Until the 'enlightened' minority finally learn some lessons, actually start acquiring a sliver of humility, and begin treating politics as a discipline and a duty instead of some silly self-serving game, there will be more of the same.
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Re:Trump wins 8 Months, 4 Weeks ago
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JK2006 wrote:
Lesson learned. In this Century - keep it simple.
That isn't the issue. Both groups kept it simple. One group said: 'We can fix it'. The other said, 'Don't vote for him'.
Simplicity isn't the problem. Content is the problem. And conviction. And constructive, coherent, realistic but appealing policies.
Of course Trump won't fix anything, other than maybe one or two pending personal legal problems, but that isn't the point. Ask the average voter what Starmer was 'for' in the last election and they won't know; they just know he wasn't for Johnson or Sunak or indeed Corbyn. Ask what Harris was for and you'll get the same sort of response: they just know she wasn't for Trump. That's it.
Politics, these last couple of decades, has been reduced to either wild and simplistic promises or the opposition to wild and simplistic promises. That's it. 'We can fix it' or 'They can't fix it'.
All the Democrats did when Trump was first in power was use the courts and the media to try to get him out of power. No re-thinking of policy, no development of new strategy, no work on re-engaging with the broad population. Nothing but that. They've behaved like some ritzy Manhattan housing committee trying to rid themselves of an unsuitable resident.
Ultimately, whether you use TV, Twitter, podcasts, rallies, voodoo, the power of prayer, you name it - you need real substance. And that is now lacking on BOTH sides, not just one. And only the winners seem to know it.
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