Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Trump Decries the "Ridiculous Bullshit" of the Democrats and MSM" video.

  1. Image has been an integral component of politics especially since TV hit the scene. It's a competence con, to shut you up before you even speak: "you can see how special we are by our appearance and manner; we use words you don't know, and make sentences too long to follow, so you can see how much smarter we are than you". Then Trump comes along and upsets their applecart, showing people politicians are just people, too--not gods, not even great humans, but, more likely, sociopaths trying to look, at one and the same time, like a "regular joe" AND a lot more special than you'll EVER be! So much of politics is about maintaining this con. That's why most people have no idea how government functions internally. The political clergy tends its flock...
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