2020 Election

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(08-12-2020, 01:09 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Ahh, so you agree his strategy wasn't just, "i don't like the other guy".  I'm pleased we could reach a consensus, sincerely.

Trump's approach was less about Hilary as a candidate and more about Hilary as a career politician.  Trump is very much the infomercial president.  The neo-cons had gone to great lengths during 8 years of Obama to convince a significant portion of the populace that America had become a hell hole and had fallen oh so far from the glory days. 

 The problem is that they did such a good job that Trump was able to sneak in and look at the neo-con voter base that was convinced everything sucked, change his affiliation to republican, and run on a platform where not only were democrats to blame for the sorry state of our country, but politicians in general were ruining America and he was just the right non-politician to make things great....again!  Because you can't say America isn't great, it's just temporarily off the right path.

Infomercial logic:

Step 1 - convince consumers they have a problem they didn't know they had
................America has become awful
Step 2 - explain how Step 1 came to be
................too many career politicians, too much liberal PC crap, too much wimpiness and niceness
Step 3 - assure consumers that you/your product is the opposite of, or will fix what make things bad
................I'm not PC, I'm not nice, I'm not a politician, I'll force the rest of the world to respect us and/or destroy those who refuse
Step 4 - ask for money/support


We got played like a fiddle by the Ron Popeil of politics.  We have made pancakes for Saturday breakfast every week for decades, and yet we were convinced that making pancakes is actually an impossible hassle without some product that was invented 3 weeks ago.  Go figure.