It's the economy, stupid
Whatever you think of Hillary Clinton as compared to Donald Trump as Presidential candidates, I'd venture that more people can recite Trump's mantra—Make America Great Again—than Clinton's. I don't know if she had a slogan, or if she did I don't remember what it was. Her most memorable turn of phrase from the campaign trail was probably "then deal
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The surest sign that this is an oral epoch is the fact that politics is no longer defined by competing ideologies or policies but simply by slogans.
America’s New Post-Literate Epistemology Michael Cuenco 4.17.2021
America’s New Post-Literate Epistemology Michael Cuenco 4.17.2021
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“A Democratic Party that is oriented toward attention seeking, toward picking fights, toward telling a simple story of big problems and clear villains, toward performing politics as much as talking about policy is a Democratic Party that would be a little more successful than the one we have. I should add, too, that this is a Democratic Party whose
... See morethe deeper game here is understanding that in democracies & markets alike, perception is reality for most participants. the hat doesn’t make trump more competent, but it makes his story stickier . & in a world where attention is the scarcest resource, stickiness beats subtlety every time.
signull • wear the hat
Politics Happens Through the Eyes
By Morry Kolman
One of the odd quirks of symbolism that Roland Barthes gives attention to in his book Mythologies is election photography—the pictures that are taken and shared of the people that want to represent us. Writing about the political posters he was seeing around France at the time, he reflected on the... See more
By Morry Kolman
One of the odd quirks of symbolism that Roland Barthes gives attention to in his book Mythologies is election photography—the pictures that are taken and shared of the people that want to represent us. Writing about the political posters he was seeing around France at the time, he reflected on the... See more