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 Millennial Voters May Cost Hillary Clinton the Election - The Atlantic

"This performance art is identity politics. It is literally selling politics to you based on your self identity. Identity politics is vile and both candidates are fully engaged, Hillary thanks to Bono especially. Identity politics is the evacuation of policy. It is designed to make you emotionally invested. It is designed to internally divide your population against itself. It is literally selling politics to you based on your self identity as infinitely superior to your own compatriots. It is also selling you this while selling you you. It is also selling you this-Promoting love and peace does not involve throwing the vote for a candidate who was the architect of illegal regime change that killed hundreds of thousands, made refugees of millions, -with Bono having the audacity to post a bleeding heart video for said refugees just three days before on U2's Facebook. If that doesn't manage to create the odd terrorist out of one of those millions, I honestly don't know what could manage it any better. -And he begged Americans to take 'em in at the same time. I don't care who you vote for, I'd be flaming livid about now. -And how. -Deeply beyond disappointed. Bono was at the Clinton Global Initiative right before doing Charlie Rose.

"Hug A Millennial": Bono’s not after the Trump Voters. He's trying to serve the Millennials up to Killary on a silver platter by gulling them with identity politics. The only reason the Clintons hooked him is because they know that George Bush's disparaging remarks about the band meeting with Clinton during ZOOTV actually threw the election for Bill Clinton in 1992. (Clinton told the Taoiseach personally.) I have the link (from the Irish Times). (It's free. So's the book this footnote came from if you use the ''Get it in ibooks' button.)

This is all very deliberate, probably way more than you know, as Bono's biggest donors for ONE/RED are, coincidentally, also the Democratic party's biggest billionaire donors. -I'm sure the Clinton Foundation will reward him handsomely. I’m sure his billionaire donors rewarded him very well already. In fact, the Clintons knew what demographic U2 threw in 1992, -the youth vote.

-What is set to make it or break it for Hillary in this election? That's Right! The Millennial Vote. (have a cookie.) She's not catering to them policy wise, (she's only used fear), so she intends to gull them with U2's identity politics to swing the vote, deliberately cynically cajolling the swing vote through both carrot and stick emotional manipulation that is the evacuation of policy. What a crock. If I was a Millennial, I'd gamble on just about anything at this point but the status quo-And make no mistake. While Millennials aren't U2's demographic per se, their exposure is Massive and their www exposure surely isYou call this bracing and positive? Bono thinks America is a great idea, providing he can throw the election. Good Grief. #voteforhillary"

'This Parrot Is No More': The 2016 Election Did Not Take Place - Juan Cole -It did not take place because it has played out almost purely in terms of identity politics, because any examination of policy status quo had to be evacuated; because it's literally too bad to pass scrutiny (foreign policy most of all). U2 just put the Reality TV cherry on top. The funny part? -Liberals are more oblivious to their manipulation via identity politics. The (top-ranked) Democrat voter comments to U2's performance art telling them how to vote more or less prove it.

The ultimate irony? It's everything U2 were f***ing warning you about with ZOOTV.