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Here, let me tell you: The slightest hint of mental illness, and the country FREAKED OUT.
originally posted by: Konduit
Adam Carolla recently had a talk on his podcast about this, and pretty much nailed it.
originally posted by: intrptr
a reply to: alomaha
The political centre from which Clinton seeks to govern has been contracting for eight years. Recession, bailouts, declining living standards and a ruined infrastructure have destroyed the old "free market" governing consensus.
Same thing happened at the end of the German and Japanese empires during WWII. Thing is, as long as the narrative is controlled in the main stream media, there will be no effective change possible. Everyone remains deluded, safe in their awareness comfort zone, to the last.
Under the state propaganda demagogue Goebbels, control of the dissemination of information reaching the average German was total. They remained optimistic, the foreign wars being waged were a long ways away, that things would turn around, new weapons would secure the final victory, aways the final victory.
originally posted by: mobiusmale
Here's the thing...or at least one thing.
So guess what? Trump is going to very quickly figure out that he needs to focus like a laser beam on Clinton and Obama, and ignore all of the other gnats who are buzzing around, in order to win.
Although there are some similarities things are not the same. Access to information was much more limited back than
The radio will be for the twentieth century what the press was for the nineteenth century.
It would not have been possible for us to take power or to use it in the ways we have without the radio and the airplane. It is no exaggeration to say that the German revolution, at least in the form it took, would have been impossible without the airplane and the radio.
A government that has determined to bring a nation together so that it is once more a center of power in the scales of great world events has not only the right, but the duty, to subordinate all aspects of the nation to its goals, or at least ensure that they are supportive. That is also true for the radio. The more significant something is in influencing the will of the broad masses, the greater its responsibility to the future of the nation.
We do not intend to use the radio only for our partisan purposes. We want room for entertainment, popular arts, games, jokes, and music. But everything should have a relationship to our day. Everything should include the theme of our great reconstructive work, or at least not stand in its way. Above all it is necessary to clearly centralize all radio activities...
"Republican donor Meg Whitman has endorsed his rival Hillary Clinton, saying Mr Trump's "demagoguery" had undermined the national fabric.
originally posted by: alomaha
a reply to: carewemust
Is that just your opinion or do you have some aditional information? To tell you the truth I was almost certain that she would not be nominated because it borders with lunacy. It seems like Democrats want to lose this election. There is already so much baggage with her and everybody knows that wikileaks or whoever is going to release something that will ensure that she will lose...
originally posted by: JaMeDoIt
Save some that stuff you are smoking...you will need it when they rebuild Chicago...really where did you get that crap from?
Cheers
a reply to: one4all
originally posted by: ladyinwaiting
originally posted by: bbarkow
a reply to: alomaha
Here is the New York Times on July 26, 1988: Dukakis Lead Widens, According to New Poll
Here's the source so we can all calm down for a minute. Remembering the Dukakis 17 point lead over Bush
Do you know the reason Dukakis then plummeted at lightspeed?
Here, let me tell you: The slightest hint of mental illness, and the country FREAKED OUT.
Hate to tell you, but yo boy will likely go the same route.