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The Bill For the Unintended Consequences of Bipartisan Political Cynicism Is Coming Due
“In order to get elected, @BarackObama will start a war with Iran,” Donald J. Trump tweeted in 2011
There is a professional “consultant class” inside the Washington DC Beltway made up of Democrats and Republicans, dominated mostly by upwardly mobile white men. A well-coifed, erudite crew who’s only job it is to “spin.”
These guys are the definition of the “metrosexual.” Sharp suits, slick pricey haircuts, weekly mani-pedis and fat electronic Rolodexes filled with politicians on the fly, media figures, and low-profile gatekeepers. They pontificate endlessly on decisions and initiatives. And, since they’re getting paid a lot of money to preen on the now 24/7 talk show circuit and political “twitter-sphere,” they’ve become overly prone to fabricating narratives, some amounting to conspiracies, out of thin air. Generating theories to, say, get some hypothetical edge in an upcoming election.
Not so long ago the Republican consulting class integrated Trump’s own cynical calculation that, if all else failed in the Trump’s administration, the “go to” for re-election is to start a war with Iran.
To be fair, some of the sharp dressed men in media make a real attempt in adversarial circumstances to get outside the echo chamber…
