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Dear Media, Stop Making Beto O’Rourke’s Whiteness His Prized Victim Card
As the hunt for the “anointed one,” who will overthrow the roguish man-baby, with monstrous impulses, continues to unfold with a growing list of varied candidates, the ongoing coverage seems to be falling into similar crevice of utter dysfunction that helped to solidify the unfathomable victory of a privileged White man, who maximized his “millions and millions” to kidnap our sanity.
Donald J. Trump’s pot-holed path to the presidency was swiftly caricatured into the chasms of engagement, that was supposed to give the media permission to indulge in this carnival of bizarreness, that led to lucrative results with the stealth support of the influencer culture, and how it has direly created the vacuum of displaced principles.
In the age that dictates how there’s no such thing as bad exposure, and encourages the elevation of voices that aren’t necessarily qualified for that level of mass endorsement, it’s almost ironic to recall the shock waves that vibrated, when a notorious New York gangster and reality TV star took the oath of office.
The 2016 electoral season was the shit fest viewed around the world, and the genesis of the finessed chaos began with the usual culprits of disorder.