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kleinbl00  ·  2861 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Don't Dismiss President Trump's Attacks on the Media as Mere Stupidity

L Ron Hubbard wrote a story in Astounding Magazine back in the late '50s where he argued that the quickest path to riches was not investment or business acumen but starting a cult. Two years later he wrote Dianetics.

Frontline's piece on Trump/Clinton is an impressive piece of media that doesn't paint Trump as a fascist. It identifies him as a bully that has never had to tell the truth so he doesn't. He's gotten to where he is by indulging his instinct for self-flattery and he's always been big enough to avoid burning out. But then, he's surrounded by sycophants with their own agendas so what we're left with is a bull in a china shop surrounded by ideologues with red capes.