Voters, Media, Broadcasters and all other observers are watching the 2016 through a filter of fantasies and euphemisms. I have no fantasies and cannot engage in euphemisms.  For purposes of observation, all of the animals have the same weight. Society fits certain people with halos others are given higher or lower status. In fantasy free thinking, no person is given more weight. Then I acknowledge that all of the different animals behave in keeping with a small number of incentives that are provided by nature.

Self interest is life’s basic incentive. Without self interest we all die. The species becomes extinct. Purge yourself of fantasy and euphemism and the world looks a lot different.

What can we see differently if we observe Trump’s campaign without the handicap of fantasies and euphemisms? There is a coordinated effort by, the donor class, candidates who receive their contributions, the news media, wall street, and organized crime to destroy Trump’s candidacy.

Trump is actually saying fewer bizarre things than the average political candidate. When Trump talks, the opposing side thoroughly combs through all of the dialog searching for something he says that can be twisted and used against him. When something is found there is a media feeding  frenzy to misstate and  warp whatever words have been found. The process is a bloodless assignation attempt.

When coverage of a campaign consists of nothing but searching endlessly for one candidate’s worst moments and then and reporting on nothing more than that, any candidate will look worse than he is.  What Trump says is seldom reported. Instead audiences get the media’s  interpretation of what he said, not what he actually said but their biased interpretation of what he said.

Can you imagine what other candidates would look like if this method of reporting was used in covering their campaigns?

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