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Originally Posted by bm bradley
here's where I get shit dumped on me: I view Obama like Hitler in that he had no experience and was able to use new media to get elected and is a great speaker... Hitler was the first guy to travel to several cities a day with a plane and give speeches thus broadening his appeal to the masses.
Obama did this with the internet, just like JFK was the first president to get elected off TV. people don't seem to remember that is was not a landslide vote for JFK and that Nikon came across poorly on the TV debates while on paper he came across as a more popular...
the new media has allowed the the population to be accessed by 'hucksters' like never before ;)
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Not surprising given some of the people who were backing Obama. In one of his books,
Between two ages (written in the 70s), Zbigniew Brzezinski describes how future heads of state (and their image) would be 'constructed' just like popstars are 'constructed'.
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In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities effectively exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason."