A Cogent Description of Trump Supporters, A Revelation about How Corruption is Destroying (and the Internet is Disrupting) America

A writer recently laid out the perspective of strong Trump supporters with precision: https://unrollthread.com/t/1413165168956088321/

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This is important for two reasons: to better empathize with these fellow Americans and because their perspective offers a view of some very disturbing aspects of America today often overlooked.

For similar reasons, I made my recent documentary about those who still fly Trump flags:

The above two reasons are compelling enough to warrant great attention.

But there's a third.

I often talk about the changes coming to society and their causes. THE single most common cause is the internet, in my opinion. And the article linked above reveals a current online phenomenon: The truth catching up to a public who had been feasting on dishonesty.

Here's what I mean by this:

As spelled out by this writer, many inaccuracies and deceptions about Trump were continually cooked up by a media with customers hungry to eat it up. (Just as we have over-eager media spreading all kinds of negativity about all kinds of people. That which was spread in recent years about such a figure as Trump, though, has been the most egregious). The media couldn't resist spreading even the most suspect of claims to a public so eager. We all got (get) caught up in this sort of thing, because we're still children when it comes to the internet--the first generation with these capabilities. This enhanced connectivity allows for this straight sugar diet of "sweet", shallow content (outrage, cynicism, shock, gossip, etc.)

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A shining example of this is the recent downfall of attorney Michael Avenatti, who, just over the past year or two, was literally being praised by morning shows, news shows, and political writers for "taking on Trump". Now he's going to prison.

But this isn't about him.
Avenatti is who he always was.

The questions is: Why would the public hoist a man like him upon their shoulders? (Or for that matter, why would the public hoist a man like Trump?)

It's all a sign of the times, how the internet has fueled and enflamed Americans' emotional-social-political-tribal instincts to such extremes: to accuse without evidence, to support without cause, to pile on and attack without pause.

Now much of the American collective, including many leading institutions, are void of credibility. This has all been one, huge societal growing pain in a new life with the internet. One may think we'll adjust and settle back into societal life as we knew it--same ol' politics and media. But I don't think we come back from this the same. We'll adjust to a life online, alright, but we'll need to be doing so with new societal systems in place--new kinds of power structures, new kinds information distribution systems--such as Hive:)

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