Morlock Elloi on Sun, 1 Apr 2018 22:15:39 +0200 (CEST)


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Re: <nettime> The other cleavage


The proposition that she-Clinton beat left-D.Trump in the primaries and then lost from right-D.Trump in the finals due to the voter indoctrination technologies, and that these technologies result in 50-50 splits over extended periods of time, would imply that investments behind implementing these technologies are roughly equal (no one has IP monopoly on bs - it's all about the execution effort, and that means money.)

These investments in the last finals were not the same - the she-Clinton spent almost twice as much as the right-D.Trump (alleged value of news coverage does not count - it's not a sophisticated fine-grained voter-carving technology.)

So there is something outside the indoctrination technology machine itself that is causing this perfect cleavage. It is not properly diagnosed - neither by the left (which will continue to blame the technology (and cosmic rays) for the loss until ... 2048?), nor by the right (which also blames the technology, but the old one - MSM.)

Piketty offers a different insight: the elite clubs themselves are transmogrifying, instinctively and consciously, to equitably cover the *existing* voter terrain. It's not that they are carving out swaths of voters - they are carving out themselves. It's easier - like when a group of friends wants to play some basketball. The rationale is the same, but the approach and the object of modification are different.

As for the finals result, it was noise in the statistics, of quantum origin, better entropy than Intel's RNG.




The parties split the electorate precisely down the middle because that
is their strategy.  They have billion-dollar machines to make it happen
just so.  When the Repugs go slightly right, Dems go slightly right
until they eat up the centre votes.  Don't go too far left or they will
do the same to you. The rich trove of voters is right in the middle.

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