“The election of Obama was one more triumph of illusion over substance. It was skillfull manipulation and betrayal of the public by a corporate power elite. We mistook style and ethnicity – an advertising tactic pioneered by Calvin Klein and Benetton – for progressive politics and genuine change.”
In short, they bullshitted a whole population of people with a tried and true marketing tactic and called it “change”.
Here we are again a few years later, and they’re set to do it again. The ironic part is that even the folks who made their careers off deconstructing media, writing (Read more…)