Americans Did Not Vote Against Donald Trump, They Voted Against More Media Psychological Abuse by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2020-11-11 at 00:30:53 )

Americans Did Not Vote Against Donald Trump, They Voted Against More Media Psychological Abuse by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

The word "coup" is being thrown about in United States of American liberal media today, not because United States liberals suddenly became uncomfortable with the fact that their nation constantly stages coups and topples governments around the world as a matter of routine policy, but because they are all talking about (you guessed it) Donald Trump.

To be clear, none of the high-powered influencers who have been promoting the use of this word actually believe there is any possibility that Donald Trump will somehow remain in office after January of next year after he loses his legal appeals against the official results of the election, which would be the thing that a coup is. There is no means or institutional support through which the sitting president could accomplish such a thing. This is not a coup, it is a glorified temper tantrum. Donald Trump will leave office at the appointed time.

The establishment narrative managers are not terrifying their audiences with this word because they believe there is any danger of a coup actually happening. They are doing it because it is their last chance to use Donald Trump to psychologically abuse their audiences for clicks.

Warnings of a "coup" should at least come with a plausible mechanism by which a coup could be carried out.

"The courts"

Ok which court? Deciding which case about what state on which grounds?

"The military"

Which unit? Doing what? Under whose command?

"Intelligence"

Huh?-Alice November 11, 2020

Last year the Pacific Standard published a report on "Trump Anxiety Disorder" or "Trump Hypersensitive Unexplained Disorder," which it describes as follows:

As the possibility of a Hillary Clinton victory began to slip away-and the possibility of a Donald Trump presidency became more and more certain-the contours of the new age of United States of American anxiety began to take shape.

In a 2017 column, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank described this phenomenon as "Trump Hypertensive Unexplained Disorder": Overeating. Headaches. Fainting. Irregular heartbeat. Chronic neck pain. Depression. Irritable bowel syndrome. Tightness in the chest. Shortness of breath. Teeth grinding. Stomach ulcer. Indigestion. Shingles. Eye twitching. Nausea. Irritability. High blood sugar. Tinnitus. Reduced immunity. Racing pulse. Shaking limbs. Hair loss. Acid reflux. Deteriorating vision. Stroke. Heart attack. It was a veritable organ recital.

Two years later, the physiological effects of the Trump administration are not going away. A growing body of research has tracked the detrimental impacts of Trump-related stress on broad segments of the United States of American population, from young adults to women, to racial and LGBT communities.

The results are not good.

"Trump Anxiety Disorder" has continued to feature in mass media stories to this day, right up until shortly before the election. The narrative has been that Donald Trump is so horrible that he is somehow causing liberals to have psychological breakdowns with his awfulness.

What gets overlooked in these analyses, as is so often the case with human perception in general, is the means by which people are taking in the information that is making them so anxious-in this case the news media.

It is not Donald Trump himself who has been making people feel terrified of a tyrannical Russian agent ending democracy in the United States of America and ruling with an iron fist, it is years of shrieking, hysterical coverage about Donald Trump from the mass media.

Without all the deranged and persistent fearmongering, driven by a disdain for Donald Trumps unrefined narrative management style and an insatiable hunger for ratings and clicks, it would never have occurred to United States of Americans that they should be more terrified of this president than of any other shitty Reaganite Republican.

The Russian collusion narrative which dominated most of Donald Trumps presidency turned out to be essentially nothing.

The concentration camps, millions of deportations and armed militias driving non-whites out of the country that we were promised never came; he never even came anywhere close to Barack Obamas deportation numbers and his support from minorities actually went up. He has not been any more warlike than his predecessors overall, and by some measures arguably less so. Most United States of Americans actually reported that their lives had improved over Donald Trumps term before the pandemic hit.

If people had just been given raw information about Donald Trumps presidency, they would have seen a lot of bad things, but things that are bad in the same way all the horrible aspects of the most destructive government on earth are bad.

They would not have known to be horrified and anxious and have headaches and irritable bowel syndrome. They would have handled themselves in about the same way they always handled themselves during the administration of a president they did not like.

Instead, they were psychologically terrorized.

Made frightened, sick and traumatized by mass media pundits who only care about ratings and clicks, as was made clear when CBS chief Les Moonves famously said that Donald Trump is bad for the United States of America but great for CBS.

Dragged through years of Russia hysteria and Donald Trump hysteria with any excuse to spin Donald Trumps presidency as a remarkable departure from norms, when in reality it was anything but. It was a fairly conventional Republican presidency.

The MSM is brutalizing the United States of American psyche day in and day out with its relentless shrieking coverage of Donald Trump, and it is killing them.

Republicans call it "Trump Derangement Syndrome", Dems call it "Trump Anxiety Disorder", but it is not. It is psychological abuse via mass media.-Caitlin Johnstone January 15, 2019

In reality, though most of them probably did not realize it, this is what United States of Americans were actually voting against when they turned out in record numbers to cast their votes.

Not against Donald Trump, but against this continued psychological abuse they have been suffering both directly and indirectly from the mass media.

Against being bashed in the face by shrieking, hysterical bullshit that hurts their bodies and makes them feel crazy, and against the unpleasantness of having to interact with stressed-out compatriots who have not been putting up well with the abuse.

It was not a "Get him out" vote, it was a "Make it stop" vote.

Meanwhile, another pernicious effect of making Donald Trump seem uniquely horrible has been retroactively making his predecessors seem nice by comparison, which is why George W Bush now enjoys majority support among Democrats after years of unpopularity.

Their depravity is hidden behind a media-generated wall labeled "NOT TRUMP". And when Joe Biden steps into office, his depravity will be hidden from view in the same way, neutering all mainstream opposition to his most deadly and dangerous actions.

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