11-15-2016, 06:20 AM
The critical part of the electorate was the demographic best described as readers of the fecal tabloid National Inquirer. All sorts of renowned, often conservative newspapers including the Dallas Morning News, the Detroit News, and the Arizona Republic endorsed Hillary Clinton.
The story about the health of Hillary Clinton was in the National Inquirer.
The way to get the votes of the most gullible voters is to get one's excessively-simple message to the least-learned masses through the intellectually-lowest means, typically the media most attractive to the least-learned of people, like low-brow tabloid media whose users are toward the bottom in effective education:
"I love poorly-educated people" -- Donald Trump
I do not say that our President-Elect or people around him learned this strategy from Mein Kampf. It is simply consistent with observations that people have made no matter how much they hate everything about Hitler. If it works it will be done.
Should Donald Trump be inaugurating a long period of American dictatorship, then you can be certain that the upper echelon of leadership will do everything possible to ensure that American education will be so debased that very few people get more than a marginal level of learning. Then they can keep loyal to leadership of intellectual and moral shallowness. The person of conscience who can think is the nemesis of any authoritarian regime.
The story about the health of Hillary Clinton was in the National Inquirer.
The way to get the votes of the most gullible voters is to get one's excessively-simple message to the least-learned masses through the intellectually-lowest means, typically the media most attractive to the least-learned of people, like low-brow tabloid media whose users are toward the bottom in effective education:
\Adolf Hitler' in Mein Kampf Wrote:"Propaganda must always address itself to the broad masses of the people. (...) All propaganda must be presented in a popular form and must fix its intellectual level so as not to be above the heads of the least intellectual of those to whom it is directed. (...) The art of propaganda consists precisely in being able to awaken the imagination of the public through an appeal to their feelings, in finding the appropriate psychological form that will arrest the attention and appeal to the hearts of the national masses. The broad masses of the people are not made up of diplomats or professors of public jurisprudence nor simply of persons who are able to form reasoned judgment in given cases, but a vacillating crowd of human children who are constantly wavering between one idea and another. (...) The great majority of a nation is so feminine in its character and outlook that its thought and conduct are ruled by sentiment rather than by sober reasoning. This sentiment, however, is not complex, but simple and consistent. It is not highly differentiated, but has only the negative and positive notions of love and hatred, right and wrong, truth and falsehood."[5]
"I love poorly-educated people" -- Donald Trump
I do not say that our President-Elect or people around him learned this strategy from Mein Kampf. It is simply consistent with observations that people have made no matter how much they hate everything about Hitler. If it works it will be done.
Should Donald Trump be inaugurating a long period of American dictatorship, then you can be certain that the upper echelon of leadership will do everything possible to ensure that American education will be so debased that very few people get more than a marginal level of learning. Then they can keep loyal to leadership of intellectual and moral shallowness. The person of conscience who can think is the nemesis of any authoritarian regime.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.