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99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
9. Trump is serving the interests of the 1% quite well
Thu Jul 23, 2015, 07:34 PM
Jul 2015

by creating a noise-machine capturing 90% of the TV 'news' airtime with his
incendary buffoonery & inflammatory sound-bites; that way the GOP gets
a pass on discussing real issues, like income disparity, cops killing Black
citizens, the disappearing middle class, social security, race relations, medicare,
TPP, you name it.

He's actually doing a great job for them, and the M$M is only to happy to
please their owners by giving this blowhard saturation airtime, so we can
all pretend there are really no public policies in play that GOP candidates
need to tell voters their views on.

This is all political theater folks, in the most toxic and anti-democratic sense
imaginable.

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