In 2016, Facts, Logic, and History Have Ceased to Matter...By Charles Krauthammer

[mystery-ak]

 In 2016, Facts, Logic, and History Have Ceased to Matter
The suspension of disbelief among voters has become ubiquitous.
By Charles Krauthammer — September 29, 2016

And now, less than six weeks from the election, what is the main event of the day? A fight between the GOP presidential nominee and a former Miss Universe, whom he had 20 years ago called “Miss Piggy” and other choice pejoratives. Just a few weeks earlier, we were seized by a transient hysteria over a minor Hillary Clinton lung infection hyped to near-mortal status. The latest curiosity is Donald Trump’s 37 sniffles during the first presidential debate. (People count this sort of thing.) Dr. Howard Dean has suggested a possible cocaine addiction.

In a man who doesn’t even drink coffee? This campaign is sinking to somewhere between zany and totally insane. Is there a bottom?

Take the most striking — and overlooked — moment of Trump’s GOP convention speech. He actually promised that under him, “the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon — and I mean very soon — come to an end.”

Not “be reduced.” End.

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[HoustonSam]

In 2016, Facts, Logic, and History Have Ceased to Matter
The suspension of disbelief among voters has become ubiquitous.

Take the most striking — and overlooked — moment of Trump’s GOP convention speech. He actually promised that under him, “the crime and violence that today afflicts our nation will soon — and I mean very soon — come to an end.”

Not “be reduced.” End.

Trump is in some ways the mirror of Obama.  Obama promised to lower the sea level and the planet's average temperature, and his followers cheered.  Trump promised to end crime and give his followers everything, and his followers cheered.  Obama brought essentially no political experience to the job, rather he had been a "community organizer" and law lecturer, basically an agitator.  Trump brings no political experience, rather he is a real estate developer, basically a pitch man.  Both are caricatures of the ideological divide, cartoon characters, one wearing a blue cape and the other a red one.

Much residual opposition to Trump is because he has pulled the Republican side into the same abyss of self-contradictory and reactionary sloganeering that the Democrats have practiced for years, separate from any serious thought or coherent philosophy.  But neither Obama nor Trump should be blamed simply for being avatars.  The electorate, and media figures like Hannity, are to be blamed for debasing a solemn, consequential decision down to a mindless bandwagon contest of cheerleading and fairy tales.

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The electorate, and media figures like Hannity, are to be blamed for debasing a solemn, consequential decision down to a mindless bandwagon contest of cheerleading and fairy tales.

That's it in a nutshell.