{"id":57274,"date":"2016-11-20T09:31:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T13:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=57274"},"modified":"2016-11-20T09:39:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T13:39:18","slug":"the-great-debates-what-really-went-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=57274","title":{"rendered":"The Great Debates: What really went on?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What Are Presidential Debates?<\/strong><\/h1>\n

<\/p>\n

A satire, by James Autio
\n<\/a>DEEP CONNECTIONS<\/a><\/p>\n

The debates, as you figured out by now, are not really debates and certainly not about debating. A propagandist\u200a\u2014\u200ano matter what\u200a\u2014\u200acares only about \u201cobtaining a certain effect.\u201d <\/em>And that certain effect in a debate setting is to get the viewers excited about something they can believe in on the propagandist\u2019s list of greatest hits of linguistic payloads\u200a\u2014\u200atruth be damned<\/em>. Clinton won the debates 3\u20130, a clean sweep, no doubt (the fact checkers worked less overtime). She got B\u2019s whilst poor, dumb Trump suffered F\u2019s (for talking over Clinton 22 times over the limit and following her around like a so<\/em> creepy bull in a China shop). Ergo, Trump only got the consolation prize of three golden opportunities to win over the hearts and minds of millions of deplorable believers by bellowing carefully-crafted (albeit crude!) soliloquies to the entire world on your dime and time\u200a\u2014\u200abut wow!\u2026 Such a buffoon he is exclaim those sporting weighty Ivy League sheepskins while scratching their heads in perplexity, hugging both coasts with domesticity\u2026 cry foul! no fair! Hey, we\u2019re the digerati and the intelligentsia, so we, the 1%, plus a few hundred-thousand robotic (and temporary, not-so-robotic, imported, undocumented) slaves, declare to secede from the Union, take our toys and go home, and resurrect Thomas More\u2019s flag from Utopia <\/em>and call our new digs Ecotopia.<\/p>\n

For sure, Trump\u2019s stunted, syllable-anemic, subject-verb messages may have stooped below the dunce level a few times (how many syllables in a grunt<\/em> or growl<\/em>?) but that, my friends, is one of the master keys to conquest of the Achilles heel of the human mind. Hell, Adolf emphasized that in his autobiography Mein Kampf with fluorescent yellow highlighter for Pete\u2019s sake!<\/em><\/p>\n

When it comes to political prowess at echelon alpha, a genius is defined as someone who can decipher and then echo\u200a\u2014\u200aad nauseam<\/em>\u200a\u2014\u200a<\/strong>irresistible words that profoundly resonate with a legion of receptive, diehard disciples\u200a\u2014\u200aand then let them knight their kin and thousand dearest Friends whilst overheating from rabid enthusiasm, possessed beyond measure by Zuckerberg\u2019s social-graph-milking cash cow to the point the poor servers in icy Sweden start to sweat<\/em>. So, lo and behold, beware an army of sheep led by a lion.<\/p>\n

By the way, the \u201cnews analysts\u201d and pundits after a debate\u200a\u2014\u200athemselves debating ceaselessly about \u201cwho won\u201d until the hook comes out in the wee hours\u200a\u2014\u200aare mere mercenary actors in the role of spin doctoring their employer\u2019s message while trying really hard not to laugh since the joke is on you. Unbeknownst to you, the seemingly life-changing decision you think you are going to make on Election Day is, unfortunately, only the illusion of choice because donkey and elephant (and perhaps the mighty lion too) are all at the end of the day joined at the hip, breaking bread as Three Musketeers, \u201cAll for one and one for all<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Trump reincarnated as a mackerel<\/a> he would say something like this to his fishy schoolmates: \u201cYo, really big, badass tuna are out to eat you and yours so let\u2019s make a deal: if you build a ball then I promise to get the tuna to pay for it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\n
\n
<\/div>\n
<\/canvas><\/div>\n<\/div>
School of mackerel building a ball and the big tuna\u2019s check is in the mail. (Source page: Awesome\u00a0Ocean<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Like they say, anyone can grow up in the land of opportunity, home of the free and the brave, and become President of the good ol\u2019 U.S. of A. Anyone<\/em>. Provided you say the right thing at the right time in the right way to the right people. A tv actor, by the way, has a leg up for the job, and, if a charming wheeler-dealer to boot, maybe two.<\/p>\n

Oh. And as for the not-so-silent majority out there that voted for Her and didn\u2019t get the POTUS-in-Training Tweet yet: \u201cYou\u2019re fired!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

___
\nhttp:\/\/medium.com\/deepconnections\/what-are-presidential-debates-4d3d8fba3a9e#.6vm89we70<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What Are Presidential Debates?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}