‘This Parrot Is No More’: The 2016 Presidential Election Did Not Take Place

(Before It's News)

By Juan Cole / Informed Comment By Juan Cole

The French sociologist and philosopher Jean Baudrillard thought that for Western audiences, the Gulf War was a staged television conflict. But if the Gulf War was a television spectacle, the 2016 election is much more of one, with the added phony copies of reality flying around on social media.

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