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Jared Yates Sexton
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The sum is greater than the parts. We’re in a defining, real crisis. It’s not the day do day lies or the controversy of the moment. This is a precipice and it’s time to talk about the possible consequences.
To survive this crisis we need to change everything about the way we view reporting, media, history, and our very concept of society. It’s all broken and we have to change and in a hurry.
This crisis with Trump is the end result of a decay and a problem. We can’t fix this without going deeper and thinking deeper. Otherwise we’re just deepening the hole.
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With Republicans it's a bizarre mix of those who manipulate working class whites to betray themselves for identity purposes and then people like Hewitt who want to control the world through economics and coups.

The Hewitts are just TERRIBLE at understanding public opinion.
What ends up happening is that the so-called intellectuals of conservatism drive the economic policies that make no sense and the foreign policy that destabilizes the world and destroys international opinion of America. The manipulators are just happy getting elected and rich.
With this Venezuela situation, they see it as a means of pressing a lever for political purposes, but what they never consider is that there are people at the heart of it who will suffer. The intellectual wing of the Republican Party is never about people. It's the next move
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Following the disastrous shutdown so many stories will focus on whether Trump won or lost, but in a functioning society we would be focusing on the personal hardships it caused, the loss of faith, the senseless endangerment in every measure from security to safety.
That gamesmanship mentality ensures that each side can declare victory while the actual people who suffered, and continue to suffer despite the reopening, are turned into hostages that can be used as bargaining chips as the political calendar continues.
When you really look at it and examine this system of pageantry and game theory, it’s not just dehumanizing, it’s unbekievably dangerous to the people affected and poisonous to the health of a society. This is literally killing people and ruining lives.
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Jared Yates Sexton
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Just a reminder that Hillbilly Elegy is right-wing propagandist garbage disguised as a rags to riches story.
For those interested: “Hillbilly Sell-Out.”

salon.com/2017/03/11/hil…
Hillbilly Elegy was written from a extremely conservative point of view but was trumpeted by media as a quick “Impoverished, Rural America For Dummies” as Trump gained steam. The list of garbage in that book is exhausting.
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