Stage 1, Day 25,
I'll be honest; I lost sleep over the controversy that I mentioned in day 24. Not because I'm overly committed to Trump winning the election, but because such a banal comment is being latched on to, and is used to create such faux-outrage.
The legacy news media has been framing it in the most uncharitable light, and the general population is unable to see it as I mentioned above (Day 24). This has opened my eyes to how easy it is to dupe a crowd, and that they could very easily turn the vituperation onto me, or any other political adversary.
I'm not trying to play the moral or intellectual high ground. However, we can agree that people are missing the touchstone of the argument. The media and the mass hears Trump saying: "I can get away with doing anything I want" when he says "They LET me do whatever I want" (to paraphrase). This isn't all that hard, either, which is the frustrating part.
[Edit: August 2018: This is an opinion that I no longer fully support. I might still have agreements with certain elements of this opinion, but not in full.]
I'll be honest; I lost sleep over the controversy that I mentioned in day 24. Not because I'm overly committed to Trump winning the election, but because such a banal comment is being latched on to, and is used to create such faux-outrage.
The legacy news media has been framing it in the most uncharitable light, and the general population is unable to see it as I mentioned above (Day 24). This has opened my eyes to how easy it is to dupe a crowd, and that they could very easily turn the vituperation onto me, or any other political adversary.
I'm not trying to play the moral or intellectual high ground. However, we can agree that people are missing the touchstone of the argument. The media and the mass hears Trump saying: "I can get away with doing anything I want" when he says "They LET me do whatever I want" (to paraphrase). This isn't all that hard, either, which is the frustrating part.
[Edit: August 2018: This is an opinion that I no longer fully support. I might still have agreements with certain elements of this opinion, but not in full.]
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