On the finish curve

A good person, but a bad wizard leaves his subjects in a balloon, leaving the ruler scared with bran in his head and a straw hairstyle, imagining himself a sage. Evil fairy, under the despotic power of which languishes the good and meek people of the Miguns, sends flocks of flying monkey-hackers on the emerald city. Military General Ginger arranges a feminist revolution in the city and overtakes the horror story ...

Frank Baum's fairy tale comes true before our eyes in the form of an evil parody.

From the 2016 presidential elections, the country will recover the country for a long time. I don’t know if this campaign will enter the annals as the most dirty (in the 19th century it was more mascot), but as the most stupid and obscene - for sure. For me, she became the most nauseating of all that I illuminated. It was indeed one large locker room. I'm tired of dirty linen. And not to me alone. Even in the comments of sociologists, the expression of Scandal Fatigue - "Fatigue from the scandals" flashes today.

Baum wrote off his False Council from a person with a strikingly similar to his own name - Fileas Barnum. It was a brilliant entrepreneur of low -grade spectacles, a maestro of self -promotion, "the king puffed up", as he called himself, mocking and mocking the public delays. "Barnum was right when he stated that the Americans love to be deceived," Baum said about Barnum. “There is no such thing as bad popularity,” if Barnum did not say this, he could well say.

The most amazing in the fairy tale about the country of Oz is that after the heroes understand that they have a charlatan, they go to him for a miracle. There is no one else to go.

Of course, Donald Trump pouted from the same breed of booths. In essence, the only product that he advertises all his life is himself. "Thanks to this television project (reality show" Assembly ". - V.A.), Trump was able to form, more precisely, to polish his image of a brutal, speaking" truth -uterus "of the communicator, greatly changed both externally and internally," writes Vasily Gatov in his essay about Trump as a media project.

I think the question of whether he brought himself in line with his screen or vice versa, akin to the question about chicken and egg. But it is clear that Trump is a homunculus of television. The kinescope is no longer there, but it was in this flask that he was once born. The nearest historical analogue is Warren Garding. In 1920, the Americans received the right to vote. No one knew who they would vote for. The Republicans rely on the impressive handsome and Bonvivan and did not lose. The curtain led the campaign with the help of the latest technologies of that time: his friend Edison shot him on the film and recorded him on gramplasts. The curtain himself did not go anywhere, but at the same time was present everywhere. He became the first president-show.

Trump, of course, is a caricature of the leader, and the names are given to him the corresponding ones: a jester, a clown, soldering. But the postgraduate is scrollful. Already in March, the case reached the phallometry: Trump assured voters that he, unlike rivals-republicans, was fine with the size. It only remained to demonstrate their genitals to the public. Today we learned about the twelve sexual exploits of this Heracles. But there is an interesting pattern: as a rule, the one who won them in his imagination will tremble about his sexual victories. Trump is a great master of illusion. Is he lying? Well, of course. But this is not a deception, but a focus. The audience rewards him with applause out of love for the art of fooling. Moreover, everyone believes that they did not fool him, but someone else.

Hillary is not at all the anti -Pop. She makes an ideal pair with him. This was perfectly visible on the third debate. He stood gloomy, with a tragic grimace, evil cracks instead of eyes. She shone with a toothy smile and bulging eyes. This is Bim and Bom, Pierrot and Harlequin, rewarding each other with subtitlers in the fun of the public.

The Politico publication once calculated how often Hillary and Donald lie in his speeches, uttered within one week. It turned out that Hillary is lying less often than Trump, but only because he speaks less and slower. She admitted on average one false statement every 12 minutes. Trump managed to lure more in his rate and word -of -the -way more time - every three minutes 15 seconds. At the same time, however, she spoke a total of an hour and a half, he was five.

In his speeches and statements there are more frank, chemically pure, unknown lies, which is part of the Pants on Fire category (from the children's teaser Liar, Liar Pants on Fire, in my free translation: "Riding, heading all in a row, your pants are burning"). Such a lie is easier to recognize. But in her statements, more than what is softly called Misrepresentation - distortion of facts, misleading, half -truth .

An example from the last debate: "17 of our intelligence services confirmed what Putin does (hacks computers. - V.A.) to influence our elections." 17 is the total number of federal departments of the United States, in one way or another involved in intelligence. From them they confirmed that Russia is behind hacking, two.

So if you please choose.

I think that if the “Russian hackers” hacked the postal servers of Trump's advisers, we would have learned even more “little dirty secrets” about them than we know about Clinton advisers today. But is this an argument in her favor?

They write about hacks today in America that with their help, Putin used the American press for his own purposes, turned it into the tool of his own propaganda. It’s not, they say, his goal is to play along with Trump, but to “ discredit and blur out universal liberal values”, to show that Western policy is the same garbage can as Russian.

Surely this was part of the Kremlin’s plans - after all, the leader of this opinion about Western values. But this, of course, is not a reason to refuse leaks - at least the "fourth power" honestly fulfills its duty. Liberal Columnists find arguments in defense of Hillary and in leaks. Thomas Friedman, whom I am accustomed to consider not only a smart, but also a decent person, writes in The New York Times about her speeches in front of Wall Street Vorotyls thanks to WikiLeaks: "Honestly, this is excellent speeches! .. So thank you, Vladimir Putin, what Hillary actually plans to rule the country."

I also do not see anything reprehensible in the statements of Ms. Clinton and approve of her globalist approach, but that’s not the point. And the fact that Hillary hid these texts, because in her public speeches, trying to take away the voices from Sanders and Trump, she spoke to voters something completely different - she did not advocate freedom of trade, but for protectionism and revision of trade agreements.

WikiLeaks calculated : the presidential and vice -presidential debate Russia and Putin were mentioned more often than any other topic - as many as 178 times! Yes, there is no bad popularity. But this is the popularity of an annoying fly. After all, prudent and prosperous countries do not talk about. And to be on a par with ISIS, Syria and Iraq is a small honor.

On Monday, the first signs appeared that Hillary was inaccessible to Trump and that he was waiting, most likely, a defeat. According to the ABC News survey , the gap for the first time from the beginning of the campaign reached a two -digit number - 50 percent of Hillary, 38 at Trump. On Saturday, the scenario of the defeat presented to its audience the host of the loyal Trump of the FOX News television company Bret Bayer: Clinton would gain 334 electors, Trump - 204. I counted - I got 333 and 205 (in Nebrozka and Manet, the electors are distributed according to the proportional system, and it is easy to make a mistake here).

Let it be so. In the end, for Trump, this is just an entertaining adventure for jokes, and for Hillary it is a matter of life. The whole powerful party car worked for it, and it did it. What she definitely will not succeed is to return to "business as usual."