Friday, September 30, 2016

the lens grows darker: late September 2016

It is widely acknowledged that there is one person in the US driving the discussion of public issues through as many least common denominators as he can find. Many times before he has shown this habit, but recently the Republican nominee has increasingly resorted to forms of dishonest rhetoric in order to support his personal claims. The problem with this of course is that anyone who knows about fractions, or factions, knows that there is only one number found in or common to all denominators - even if it may not be counted. And that is one. Anyone can have an opinion. But if the basis for the opinion are merely a tissue of lies and misppropriations, then it becomes the problem of that audience, then who repeats them. Donald Trump keeps telling people he won the first round of Presidential Debates with Hillary Clinton. The overwhelming consensus is that he clearly did not.
The press disagrees with that assessment partly because their credibility has been called into question. Not the least over how Trump has seemingly sucked the air out of the collective media exposure of his tactics, since the summer of last year. He repeats a lie until others are repeating it too. Then the 'issue' is either a 'scandal' or, just another 'two-sided' disagreement. The facts, what is really happening, in turn, gets ignored as 'less interesting'. People become unaware of what is actually happening and, react instead to another orchestrated scandal. (Today, it is over the nominee's 3AM tweets attacking Alicia Machado, a former Miss Universe winner, who accused the nominee of mental abuse after her win. Irrationally, in order to discredit her, he then invited his followers to watch a fake sex tape that didn't involve her.) There's been such a scandal, or two, or three, or more, every week since Trump started running for President. One example is that Trump doesn't seem to understand the US had an embargo against Cuba, for over fifty years. Another is that he doesn't seem to understand how a charitable foundation, that is, his charitable foundation functions.

It's alarming how so many people can't seem to get enough of the petty scandals and outrageous pychopathic behaviors.

But it seems even Congress has a difficult time understanding the gravity of their actions.

A graphic with the last date that people can register to vote has been circulating.

It is common knowledge these days that 'lack of education', in addition to 'poverty' makes these problems worse. But there is even disagreement on what that means, and less agreement on what to do about it. There is a problem with the shrinking middle class in the US as well.
Also, in the US more people feel that this is happening:

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