**** Elections thread *****

[surviva316]

Many people voted for Trump because he isn't an establishment politician. In the EU referendum the political establishment said "Don't do it!" and a lot of people said "FUCK YOU WE'RE GONNA DO IT!". US election rolls up, the establishment says "Don't vote for Trump because X/Y/Z" and people think "fuck you, I'll vote for him if I want to".

Everyone (every single person) is "anti-establishment." There isn't a single person who thinks everything the government does, the media says and the academics teach is honkey dorey. But you can't shut your ears to every politician, reporter and economist/military officer/what-have-you or else you're ignoring every single person who is qualified to inform you.

The problem is in specificity. If you're not nailing down *what about* those things you disdain, which you want to remove and how you are going to solve what's left, then you're bound to throw the baby out with the bath water.

And that's what happened here. You hate CNN? Great, me too. But there was only one major publication in the entire country that endorsed Trump, and it was National Enquirer. This isn't a problem with "mainstream media"; it's a problem with every single fucking reporter on the face of the planet, at which point we've gone beyond hating the establishment and have entered The Matrix level of reality doubting.

I could go down the list with each of the aspects of "the establishment" the same way, but the list would be needlessly exhaustive.

The point is that I'm not some establishment bot by any-fucking-stretch of the imagination and I'm absolutely a skeptic. But at a certain point, it gets to be such a scattershot that it's like saying, "Fuck The Man," and going down the street and punching literally every person with a Y chromosome in the dick. Um, that's not what we meant by "The Man."