VOTE 3RD PARTY now -- for the future, since we're totally screwed by the "2-Party System" this year!
Trump is hated by the establishment Republicans as much as by any group, and they have done amazing things to try to torpedo his candidacy.
A vote for Trump is the biggest rejection of the "2-Party System" that I can think of since Perot...and bigger than that. Perot was unprepared for the heat. Trump seems to be as best I can determine.
I'll say again, the Trump phenomenon seems to have the potential to turn the Republican party into something worth supporting for the first time in half a century or more. If we can 'embrace' the self-segregation of the douche-bag neo-cons and the kept stable workhorses (Bushes, Ryan, McConnell, etc) then this might actually come to pass. In association with the utter kernel-level corruption of the Dems a fair number of good people might make the switch. Flynn is a great example of this.
I agree with this but it's likely a bit too far reaching for people to comprehend. After a year of Trumpian style leadership, however...
They'd be laughing at the old con games they fell for...
Honestly, I think that's true for both "parties."
The idea that Trump might be a fraud has gnawed at me from (my own) day one and continues to be a source of angst. The sentiment driving Brexit and Trump should have easily been picked up by the Bayesian belief networks. If they were, the natural response would be to create a Trump-ish character.
('
Bayesian belief networks' and 'r
ational agents' are described in minor detail in the interesting new documentary called '
HyperNormalisation' which I recommend to interested parties with an analytical bent.)
As I've mentioned before, the establishment resistance against Trump and the desperation to get Hillary installed, even for a few days, is building my confidence in the guy. Maybe he pretended early on that he would play ball and may in fact stab them in the back and they got suspicious about this. Who knows. In any event, the mainstream media conglomerate has been decimated (in terms of credibiity.) If/when their lease on life is extended by criminalizing alternate media competition, they will be less effective then Provda ever was even near the end.
As is almost always the case, we'll only really know the answers until after the fact. Kinda like the now popular and completely ridiculous 'we have to pass the bill to see what is in it' I suppose.
Meanwhile, looking at the above 3 posts, seems like some of the paid Hitlery Trolls that got run out of Reddit are perching here for a while.
I've started using the ignore feature here for the first time in half a decade. These are either primitive bots which don't really even qualify as AI, or very pathetic sock-puppets trying to use the board as free advertising. This zombie army seems to take two sides of a given issue (Trump vs. Hillary, 2nd amendment, 9/11, global warming, etc.) Thankfully they are at this point fairly easy to spot but unfortunately that won't always be the case. For now we can focus on identifying the higher budget flesh containing agents working multiple projects from a set of playbooks...and maybe occasionally striking out on their own because of their innate human weaknesses