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19. Ditto that.

The 1%, shaken by the success of the (real) left in the 60's, responded by acquiring control of 95% of traditional media worldwide, among other things.

Liberal or simply genuinely concientious journalists, no matter how brilliant or even how popular, were frequently pushed out and now work for independent outlets. What was left were people whose own inclinations or lack thereof qualified them to hew to the 1%'s news agenda.

That agenda has to a considerable degree consisted in training the 99% to blame their misery on various "others" – muslims, immigrants, etc. – and to vent their fear and anger in hatred toward those others.

The 1% has simultaneously done all it could to defund public education and to direct curriculae toward vocational training and other areas that do NOT particularly develop critical thinking.

They trained their base to hate; when Trump hammers that bell, it rings in their hearts.

We're now all reaping what the 1% sowed (what we allowed them to sow).