( Notice how Trump is honest about his strategy. He uses the media against itself. He baits them like he baits the financial sector when building his projects: by appealing to their greed, then turning it on them later in the development cycle.
He disempowers the state-media conspiracy of common interest: selling faith in an impossible utopia to willing consumers and voters in exchange for advertising revenue for media and votes that allow funding of the special interests and ideologues that get politicians into office.
He uses their greed by selling the opposite message and invoking moral outrage, and they play host to his message and give him free distribution in an effort to stop him. They cannot refuse the short term revenue or political attention even though in the long term he is undermining their influence and demonstrating their duplicity.
The art of it is fascinating to watch. And the media and the state are committing suicide by showering him with attention in attempts to stop him from doing exactly what his voters want: disempowering the state-media-academy alliance, that we in the #NewRight call ‘The Cathedral’. The replacement of the military industrial complex with the state, academy media complex. )
Source date (UTC): 2016-04-12 12:09:00 UTC
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