Yet many Americans don't care what The Economist and the Pope say, but after decades of dumbing down the American public, why is anyone at all surprised?
Many factors underlie the attention in which Trump is wallowing. These conditions have produced rebellious anger, thus making the Trump Phenomenon possible.
- Anger arising from funneling money to the super-rich and a negative economic growth for everyone else. Real incomes, health services and social safety nets nearing collapse.
- The backing of large corporations, supported by the State Department's maintenance of world economic domination through manipulative trade treaties that raise prices and cost us jobs, plus costly continuous wars that draw money away from infrastructure and education.
- Sound-bite mass media, with news as entertainment, thrives on emotionalism and lacks journalistic judgement, resulting in "hype without reason."
- A dysfunctional government controlled by corporations and their lobbyists catalyzes a feeling of helplessness among many people.
- An educational system that avoids any question that can have multiple answers and is evaluated by standardized tests.
- Ever since Nixon introduced the Back to Basics program, children haven't learned to decide about multiple solutions for complex questions; they are taught that there can be only one correct answer
- A government relying on armed force, instead of diplomacy, precipitates a national mind-set that believes all compromise is inherently a mistake.
People are angry and upset, causing a revolt against governmental Establishment. Trump plays on emotions, incites fears and promises the impossible, like exporting all the undocumented Hispanics and barring Muslims from entering the country.
His hostile madness is capped by promises of an idealistic economic future. For the many disenchanted, emotion-driven, uninformed and unreasoning voters looking for a charming guru to lead them, Trump fits the bill!
(Article changed on May 21, 2017 at 02:14)
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