If Donald Trump's current poll numbers are an accurate representation of his support, how many tens of millions of people does that represent? I ask that as a question because I don't know how MANY tens of millions that figure would be, though I'm certain it is measurable in tens of millions, adding up to perhaps more than a hundred million. Of that hundred million, now many do you think really mean it, that they support his calls for violence and his ever more explicit suggestions of assassinating people if he loses the election? One percent? Half of one percent? One percent of one million is 10,000. What do you really think would happen if half of that number took up arms against the elected government of the United States? It would certainly not be localized in one region of the country. With the modern weapons that the Supreme Court has allowed free sale in this country, how many people do you think they could kill in a day? A week? However long it took to reestablish order? That is if the very libertarians on the courts allowed it. And, don't for a second believe that the lawyers and liars in the media who have lied us into this potential for disaster wouldn't be fighting against what needed to be done to reestablish order. This is a situation that has been building in explicit talk among Republicans for decades now, there has been no secret about it and the very same lawyers and liars have only been encouraging it. There is every reason to believe that those white-collared, well manicured people wouldn't mind what could result from their advocacy.
Even the newspapers are beginning to take seriously the possibility that the Trump supporters could turn to violent insurrection and assassination if he loses the election. And that is a real possibility. After years of telling people that those guys weren't assembling enormous personal arsenals and stashes of ammunition like some people collected Cabbage Patch Dolls it has to be pointed out, a serious number of them were collecting them to use, specifically against us.
This election cycle started out with virtually all of the professional journalists, in print, broadcast and cabloid, breezily dismissing the potential of the TV created fascist strong-man Der CEO Donald Trump winning the Republican nomination, only to see his TV trained audience easily hand him the nomination of one of the two real parties in the United States. It continued, even when the spectacle of him calling on his thuggish supporters to beat up protesters as part of his stump speechifying, them lazily covering him as if he were just another candidate instead of the overt fascist strongman he was running as. It has continued to facilitate his climb to very possibly becoming President of the United States and is, today. At every step American journalism, as defined by American journalists has let down the American Peoples' right to accurate information which would enable them to reject a violent lunatic, one of the easiest choices to reject in the history of presidential politics.
We didn't get here by accident, all of this is entirely predictable and you don't even have to use very sophisticated thinking to have anticipated the results of the legal regime that has permitted the media to lie and to distort reality for its own profit and the profit of the upper class that journalists and their publishers either are members of or that they aspire to enter. If nothing else then reporters, columnists and other members of that profession know who they work for and what those always rich people always want. The media, including journalists, produced Donald Trump by producing his audience of angry, entitled white men and the women who were enticed into believing the fictitious substance of his PR was real. NBC, MSNBC, FOX, and the other network executives and creative staff who created the public persona of Donald Trump were also creating his audience, they are in the business of creating demand, everything they do is in line with the practices of public relations and the advertising industry.
But they were enabled by the older media, print media, the "free speech" industry, that combination of professional writers and publishers, their hired lawyers and, as the shtick caught on, law professors and judges who played one of the most dangerous games of "let's pretend" in our history. Make no mistake about this, we have a large cohort of professional, white-collar people who, when it comes right down to it, don't have much of a problem with fascism. This will be presented as a "redneck" "blue-collar" "ignorant hillbilly" problem but the problem started in elite law schools, elite law firms, such groups as the ACLU and in courtrooms and judges chambers, most of all in the Supreme Court.
You can't have democracy in a peaceful, decent society when that society is fed on a diet of violent lies, you can't have democracy when the worst inclinations of people are pandered to 24-7 in the mass media or even local media. We have a choice to make and there is every indication that our media, ever mindful of its own interest will betray the common good as it consistently has. Obviously the choices made by that class since the 1960s didn't bring the more decent society they promised, it has brought us to the edge of catastrophe. If Trump loses, even if he loses 40-60%, a landslide that no one I'm reading expects, it won't mean we're safe, it means that we narrowly averted disaster this once. As the very same media attack Hillary Clinton and her administration we could face far worse in four years. Ted Cruz and the other likely candidates in 2020 are slightly different in style, none of them are different in intent or content. And, who knows, maybe Donald Trump will get his way and his followers will start killing people next month, within weeks. The first thing that has to be done is to force the broadcast and cabloid media to stop lying to his dangerous supporters, telling them what they want to hear. Only the courts won't let that happen.
This entire line of thinking couldn't possibly have been more obviously insane, from the start.
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