http://www.infowars.com/top-psychologist-googles-algorithm-will-rig-the-election-for-hillary/I've heard the Technocrats smugly and confidently brag about this many years and write off the stone-age'ers as no longer relevant. A big part of what appeals to me about Trump is along the lines of the John Henry (or whoever) fable about the sledge-hammer guy who beat the new-fangled steam drill (although the struggle killed him in the process.)
As far as I can tell, Trump seems to be kind of in the idiot-savant category in terms of being able to figure out the public and formulate a strategy. And, very importantly, do it as ethically as can be hoped for in today's socio-political climate. Kind of like one of those (possibly fictional) people who can 'see' huge prime numbers.
I'm sure that Trump uses 'technology' such as data analytics to a degree, but, as per one of my earlier posts when I explored the data analytics use by various candidates, to a relatively limited degree it seems. To dredge up another analogy from fiction, Luke folding up the computer assisted targeting system springs to mind.
Trump certainly 'bends reality' in efforts to appeal to the less noble of humanity's characteristics, but he almost always seems to leave himself an out. So, in this way he remains 'ethical'. At least the way I define it. I also find most of his tactical strategies to be similarly ethical. Most of them are a form of what I consider 'vitruous trolling' where you use the enemies weakness as bait, us the adversary's miss-chosen allies as cover, and use the adversary's wrong-headed momentum in the same way certain of the martial arts prescribe. ('wrong-headed momentum' and 'political correctness' are often interchangeable here.)
I do wonder sometimes if Trump is doing this stuff mostly himself, or if he has some well hidden confidant helping him out. The more visible ones don't seem to have a very long shelf life.
Putin seems to recognize some of Trump's skilz as do various other human performance analysts like the Dilbert guy. Broad swaths of people find him mesmerizing for probably a variety of reasons which is why his campaign got a lot of somewhat neutral air-time. At least until the corporate media started to panic.
For my part I have a lot of admiration for Trump, but then I have the same for the likes of Kissinger and Cheney both of whom I would not mind seeing in front of a firing squad. In addition to admiration, I also kind of like the guy and will until someone gives me a
valid reason not to or until I discover enough of them on my own. He's not particularly 'my kind of people', but that does not define who I do or don't like. Of course there are policy issues which I don't agree with Trump on, but one of the reasons I like him is that he doesn't seem to have a problem 'flip/flopping' and more often than not it seems that his flop ends up for the better. Seems that it is currently in-vogue for people, and especially for pseudo-intellectual people, to claim they don't like him but support him anyway. I sense that this 'mush-ball' attitude is fall-out from the laughably transparent attempts the the establishment to vilify the guy and the natural human tendency for most people to be herd-like creatures.
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