The lack of credentials I'm talking about is the simple fact that they thought they were going to, as you say, "bury" their opponents by winning the election, and they didn't
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It's pretty clear they don't, in point of fact, have mass political appeal, the test of having mass political appeal is being able to get votes from the masses
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As far as the populist underdog narrative, lol The Chapos are absolutely just the frustrated angry young wing of the wealthy media class and the idea that they're outsiders to it is absurd
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Lol the "appeal to credentials" is another off base attack on "Sorkinism" The core feature of Sorkinism absolutely always was that the applause itself was the credential He said it so well and so convincingly and he owned that guy so hard he MUST have won
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The idea that you can make a really good speech and just FEEL totally right and everyone around you claps and you STILL LOSE THE ELECTION is an alien thought in Sorkinland As it is in the Chapo bubble
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The meme going around of photos from Bernie rallies "How are we not winning in landslides?!"
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I don't really care about "credentialism" per se The person going the analysis can have a PhD or not, whatever It's just pretty fucking annoying seeing people make broad sweeping narratives based on their own obvious psychological issues and refuse to test them against reality
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Ironically, the person I'm thinking of most here IS a Swarthmore grad, when Micah White worked for Adbusters and wrote that big viral Bush-era piece about how the concept of polling and demographic research is inherently neoliberal and will only produce neoliberal campaigns
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Same kind of rhetoric - can't dismantle the master's house with the master's tools, can't fight capitalism by putting evil marketers and advertisers in positions of power, etc It all sounds good until you ask the obvious question - "Then how do you know what people think"
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And the apparent answer is "I just know" "I'm very wise, I listen to the voice of the people, I have empathy and authentic unfiltered experience of life on these streets" Bullshit, in other words
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