Re: <nettime> The other cleavage

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

The proposition that she-Clinton beat left-D.Trump in the primaries and 
then lost from right-D.Trump in the finals due to the voter 
indoctrination technologies, and that these technologies result in 50-50 
splits over extended periods of time, would imply that investments 
behind implementing these technologies are roughly equal (no one has IP 
monopoly on bs - it's all about the execution effort, and that means money.)

These investments in the last finals were not the same - the she-Clinton 
spent almost twice as much as the right-D.Trump (alleged value of news 
coverage does not count - it's not a sophisticated fine-grained 
voter-carving technology.)

So there is something outside the indoctrination technology machine 
itself that is causing this perfect cleavage. It is not properly 
diagnosed - neither by the left (which will continue to blame the 
technology (and cosmic rays) for the loss until ... 2048?), nor by the 
right (which also blames the technology, but the old one - MSM.)

Piketty offers a different insight: the elite clubs themselves are 
transmogrifying, instinctively and consciously, to equitably cover the 
*existing* voter terrain. It's not that they are carving out swaths of 
voters - they are carving out themselves. It's easier - like when a 
group of friends wants to play some basketball. The rationale is the 
same, but the approach and the object of modification are different.

As for the finals result, it was noise in the statistics, of quantum 
origin, better entropy than Intel's RNG.




> The parties split the electorate precisely down the middle because that
> is their strategy.  They have billion-dollar machines to make it happen
> just so.  When the Repugs go slightly right, Dems go slightly right
> until they eat up the centre votes.  Don't go too far left or they will
> do the same to you. The rich trove of voters is right in the middle.

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