[awakened53]

I admit it, I was one of those who thought things would be different with Trump. As in, drain the swamp different.

It wasn't so much what he said, it was a seemingly relentless campaign by the MSM and other Politico figures world over to discredit the man like I'd never seen before.
It wasn't just they went after him, but telling they rumour there was, constant negative attention, while Clinton, despite her often obvious trail of crimes, including server gate, wikileaks etc, got a free ride, and constant promotions.

Clearly Trump is an outsider, the butt of jokes in years gone by, and the establishment fear him, so they are lying to prevent him winning, fake polls "he's a joke, should stop now he's embarrassing himself etc".

(Or so I thought)

It was easy to fall into the trap that most "truthers" do in their first couple years, namely, if it walks, looks and sounds like Duck, then it's likely a duck, especially if the MSM says otherwise.

When he won, I was expecting the MSM to either fold in large numbers, or issue massive apologies to both trump Trump and their readers, to at least try retain SOME respectability.... But they didn't, they doubled down on the seeming hated and lies about Trump.

The online, alt news could effortlessly pick apart the MSM BS and it seemed a clear case of "these media congloms and their masters are fighting for their lives, they can't ever admit any wrongdoing, nobody, not once."

Then I began to smell a rat. The people who couldn't see the obvious lies in the MSM by mid 2017 are likely never going to, and were more likely to be the older half of the population, the younger, internet era, more likely pro Trump, with the exceptions of those at "progressive colleges" (ie 99% of them).

This technique was never about convincing everyone - those days were gone and they knew it - but they could divide the people, often the same family, through having enough people on both sides to create agro and division.

The "Russian hack" narrative was a clever move, it focused both the MSM and most the alt media on covering a fake story at both extremes, thus dividing a nation even further on an issue that didn't exist, and also steering everyone away from the real issue - who was really behind Trumps success. Is Trump really MAGA, or MZGA (Zionism).

The constant MSM bashing of Trump, got the average person who could see this to support the man, and it worked. Anyone who didn't support him was clearly a "with her lefty libtard".

Over 18 months have passed, and other than romours of "50,000+ sealed indictments" and "10,000s low level pedos arrested" nothing but NAFTA and obamacare seems to have really helped.
The same sealed indictments can be left sealed, effectively stalling any court dealings with any of these people - upto forever.

We would all be naive to think that bad actors in Intel agencies and/or elite circles saw an explosion of the masses getting woke online, and figured they'd leave it.
They will have put their key folk in position, bought,  bribed, or blackmailed others like Alex Jones,

Thus using basic logic /alt news
 vs.
 sounds nice/emotions MSM news
To deepen ever more the division in the USA.

It is the same everywhere.... left v right.. brexit v remain... the whole LGBT agenda... vaccines..... Russia..iran....Syria....
It is all designed to divide us... a divided community will not stand together and fight the system...
Our current time is displaying more hatred and intolerance than I have seen in my lifetime and I can only see it getting worse.
The Trump presidency is a pantomime and with the psychos that he has around him, he hasn't got a chance in hell of making a difference..
We live in very dangerous and messy times that is for sure