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2016 Postmortem

Orsino

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3. Billionaire solipsists can afford to hire other solipsists...

Reply to rug (Original post)

Sun Jan 1, 2017, 11:43 AM

Jan 2017

...and otherwise manufacture virtual majorities. When a virtual billionaire arrives on the scene with built-in popularity, the real billionaires will find it just a matter of efficiency to co-opt him.

Trump has an inferiority complex visible from space. All the moneyed men have to do is dangle before him the prospect of his being allowed, finally, into the club, and he's theirs. Part of the deal is that they have to let him swagger.

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