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发帖数: 2343 | 1 亲爱的约翰 （希拉里竞选大总管），
好吧，我们以前全都以为美国民主的最大问题就是柯克兄弟这样的大钱在政治生活
中的作用。咱们真笨，结果怎么着，要是你能把选举过程和娱乐搅和在一起，钱就没那
么重要。川普控制了电视，电视上所谓的这些新闻就把这个吹牛比的家伙的傻主意拣起
来，不断重播，一直播到死。这些人民中间的不满寄托到一个看起来像是强人的身上，
然后我们就出发，开始竞选了。 小肯尼迪要是看到这些得乐开花了，他办那个《乔治
》杂志就是看到明星政治来到了。他的杂志不灵因为那时候太超前了，现在看起来很有
先见之明。当然《乔治》杂志玩得不够花，基本上就是个人魅力和八卦， 就像《人物
》杂志，但是我们现在打交道的是要命的东西。这次大选怎么才能搞好这些花花草草？
克林顿前国务卿不是个好莱坞演员，也不是个像川普，卡带珊那样的明星。她怎么做才
能抵销川普的明星效应？我肯定民主党大会一结束，那些民意调查专家就是根据民调制
定我们的政策，但是我觉得不对劲。就像我以前提过的，我们都满足于（用这些竞选的
手段）贬低政府，抛弃文明，总之用阴谋诡计把美国老百姓训练成愚民和顺民。现在老
百姓愚昧还是那么愚昧，可是顺服已经大打折扣了。这个问题值得我们认认真真地思考
。就靠民意调查，根据种族，性别放消息是不灵的。如比奥（美国共和党参议员）昨天
上午的记者会很好，应该完整地重播，不能就蜻蜓点水。下周的克林顿筹款会我来参加
，可是我可能就和你招招手，连说个哈罗可能也没时间。 我担心我们都在试图操纵一
些不能简单解释，或者说无法完全理解的力量。这会很有意思。
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比尔 (美国民俗学家，比尔克林顿和奥巴马的高级政治顾问）
Dear John: Well, we all thought the big problem for our US democracy was
Citizens United/Koch Brothers big money in politics. Silly us; turns out
that money isn't all that important if you can conflate entertainment with
the electoral process. Trump masters TV, TV so-called news picks up and
repeats and repeats to death this opinionated blowhard and his hairbrained
ideas, free-floating discontent attaches to a seeming strongman and we're
off and running. JFK, Jr would be delighted by all this as his "George"
magazine saw celebrity politics coming. The magazine struggled as it was
ahead of its time but now looks prescient. George, of course, played the
development pretty lightly, basically for charm and gossip, like People, but
what we are dealing with now is dead serious. How does this get handled in
the general? Secretary Clinton is not an entertainer, and not a celebrity in
the Trump, Kardashian mold; what can she do to offset this? I'm certain the
poll-directed insiders are sure things will default to policy as soon as
the conventions are over, but I think not. And as I've mentioned, we've all
been quite content to demean government, drop civics and in general conspire
to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry. The unawareness remains
strong but compliance is obviously fading rapidly. This problem demands some
serious, serious thinking - and not just poll driven, demographically-
inspired messaging. Rubio's press conference yesterday AM was good and
should be repeated in its entirety, not just in nibbles. I will attend the
Clinton fundraiser here next week but as I can only afford the low level of
participation may just get to wave without a "hello." I fear we are all
now trying to navigate a set of forces that cannot be simply explained or
fully understood, so it is and will reamin interesting! Sent with a
handshake, Bill |
