“I could sense, maybe I’m wrong, but I could sense from Donald Trump’s body language even when he came out for the acceptance speech, that brotha has been humbled by this world thing,” she said. “I think it’s a humbling process that now you literally have the weight of the world on your shoulders.”
I went to bed in tears on the 8th, certain the fix was in with Hillary Clinton leveraging electronic ballot tampering to “win” by 2%, only to be woken by my wife to watch in awe from midnight to three in the morning as Donald Trump beat the system. Just for the record, I think I in my capacity as a private citizen author may have partially inspired 100,000 votes for Donald Trump, and impacted in some small way over 2 million minds with my posts on How Trump Can Win and the four Kindle Shorts below.
Political systems scale poorly. The most influential actors in them are spending a substantial fraction of their mental capacity thinking about how to communicate, and do not have the bandwidth needed to deal with many incoming messages. This is not surprising considering the large number of people they interact with. Our modern political world is one where a few need to interact with many, so they have no time for deep relationships — they physically cannot. So what we are left is with a world of first impressions and public opinion, where the choice of words matters enormously, and becomes central to the job. Yet, the chronic lack of time that comes from having a system where few people govern many.
Delivered electronically to FBI Watch Center at 1503 2016-11-05. Hard copy via Certified Priority Mail #9502 6000 0074 6310 0000 47 for arrival Monday, 2016-11-07.
PERSONAL FOR THE DIRECTOR
5 November 2016
Mr. James Comey, Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
935 Pennsylvania Ave NW,
Washington, DC 20535
Dear Director Comey,
There are in my view four investigations that should be on-going, in the following rank order from most important to least important.
Reproduced with permission from original as posted.
We are failing to govern ourselves. The concept of American democracy has been driven from the field by the public relations industry. The balancing act between the poles of public and private interests, performed so deftly by Chester Bowles, William Benton and Harold Burson in the 1950s to protect us from the deceptions of our leaders and the cynicism of the PR industry founded by Edward Bernays, has collapsed. Spinning the morally indefensible is now embedded in our civic DNA.
From its inception, the leaders of our republic chose misleading words to mask the crimes against humanity committed by the markets they created and profited from:
Slavery—“our peculiar institution of other persons”
Freedom seeking men and women—“fugitives”
Peace-loving, welcoming, conciliatory people of the land—“savages”
This report was jointly prepared by the Department of Labor, Office of the Solicitor, and the Mexican Secretariat of Labor and Social Welfare under the terms of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by the Secretaries of Labor of the United States and Mexico in May 1991. The United States portion of the proceedings were prepared under the direction of
John F. Depenbrock, Associate Solicitor, Division of Labor-Management Laws. Compilation and editing was by Donald D. Carter, Jr., assisted by Joy K. Reynolds. The report is not an official document and does not express the policies or views of either the U.S. Government or the Government of the United Mexican States.