The American media is still trying to understand why Donald Trump became president. The most incredible theories are being used: White women, Masons and blacks are accused of choosing a "misogynist and xenophobe".
Nothing but the truth
Trump was inaugurated on January 20, but those dissatisfied with the new president continue to explain to themselves and those around them that he won the election not at all because of his personal qualities and political program.
Feminists, oddly enough, decided that white women were to blame for the disastrous outcome of the presidential race. More precisely, white women who support misogyny. According to CNN's calculations, the female half of the population voted for Trump at times more willingly than for Hillary Clinton. Most of the billionaire's supporters are young girls with higher education, or, as the feminists themselves call them, "female chauvinistic pigs."
Feminists believe white women are to blame for Trump's victory.
In the eyes of women rights activists, female voters who cast their vote for Trump could have avoided this if they had joined the feminist movement in time. But they are white, which means that belonging to a "superior race" makes them support sexism, racism, xenophobia and other forms of oppression.
The columnists in the leading Western media, accustomed to talking about politics and remembering a happy childhood, were upset by Black Lives Matter activists. Journalist Taki Theodorakopoulos, a Greek from New York and a columnist for the British Spectator, chided black rights activists for walking the streets whining that things did not go according to their plan.
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“I think this is such a new fashion - you fail, and then you cry, stamp your feet demonstratively and interfere in the life of normal people in every possible way. And if they voted for this “monster”, then you can beat them on occasion,”the journalist says about the psychology of the protesters.
According to Theodorakopoulos, the average voter is afraid of social change activists. Trump went against any minority - colored, gay, feminist - and thus secured himself a valuable majority vote. Hillary helped him: the candidate's admission that the police often kills blacks without a proper reason, turned entire states against her, where law enforcement officers are the only hope in the fight against street crime.
One of the most enduring arguments among the disaffected is the extraordinary explosion of fake news. But it is not so much journalists who are accused of this as Mark Zuckerberg. Active young people, and not only them, allegedly have not read news on the websites of publications for a long time and spend almost all their time on Facebook. Conspiracy supporters said: Zuckerberg benefits from getting as many clicks as possible, and the trash about presidential candidates is read much better than boring reports about charity events.
During the election race, Facebook allegedly did not do fact-checking, but actively tested new algorithms for displaying the news feed. The race for the most interesting led to the formation of a powerful information bubble: users saw only links from their friends with similar views on politics.
As a result, Democrats read and liked Democrats, and Republicans - exclusively Republicans. Among these interest groups, pseudo-news and fictions of sites copying leading publications circulated. Fakes were shared, discussed, and if someone thought to provide refutations, they did not get viral.
But all these explanations do not compare with the statements of the conspiracy theorists, who saw in Trump's gestures a whole system of signs confirming his Masonic origin.
The habit of connecting the thumb and forefinger, forming a six, in the eyes of conspiracy theorists is "a clear sign of skillful programming of consciousness" (in fact, this is a gesture expressing that everything is okay). According to their theory, Trump alternately folds his palms in a triangle, praising the world government of the Illuminati, or sends sixes to the public for the glory of Satan.
Experienced conspiracy theorists often refer to the 1995 board game Illuminati: The Game of Conspiracy. They believe these cards predicted the 9/11 attacks. In the same deck, they found a card called "Enough is Enough", on which you can see Trump's face.
All of this must mean that the billionaire is a puppet of a secret world government that has decided to end democracy in the United States and plunge the country into chaos.
Conspiracy theorists believe that Trump - a puppet in the hands of the Illuminati.
Porn is to blame
Neuroscientist, comedian and journalist Dean Burnett admitted in his column in the Guardian that he was tired of these countless fans of shuffling facts, and decided to prove that, if desired, the Trump presidency can be reduced to any event.
For example, the dominance of pornography over humanity and over Americans in particular.
Porn distorts the perception of the world
First of all, Burnet pointed out that the constant viewing of porn can seriously distort the perception of the real world. Most of the pornographic materials are aimed at men, and the videos in every possible way praise the submission and humiliation of women.
The Atlantic's study of Trump and Hillary voters fit perfectly into the porn picture: the current US president was actively supported by typical American men. In the course of the election campaign, sensitive facts from Trump's biography constantly surfaced, and he himself again and again acted as an ardent supporter of sexism and a lover of spanking women. This not only did not prevent him from winning the election - on the contrary, it helped.
Porn too available
Any porn is easy to find now, and most likely it will be free. People are used to the fact that they don't need to go anywhere for pleasure, and even more so to interact with others.
This creates an addiction to making easy decisions. Why think about looking for a soul mate if you can just drive into a search engine the porn you want to watch right now? Why build a culture of communication with people from different countries if you can just build a wall from Mexicans and expel all Muslims from the United States?
Easy decisions again in choosing porn, and then in choosing a president.
Watching porn makes us gullible
Gullibility to clearly fake news can be the result of too much viewing of erotic videos.
A great many adults watch videos with unrealistic scenarios, silly remarks, and ridiculous developments. All this obscures the sober outlook on life, makes people more trusting, and deception is no longer perceived so critically.
Dean Burnet decided to prove that Trump became president thanks to porn.
Porn makes it impossible to recognize fake statements and events. Many blame the fake news for Trump's victory, but perhaps the root cause is the dominance of pornography.
Too stupid to be true
Each of these arguments can be used to accuse the President of the United States and have a right to life, but all of them are certainly ridiculous.
They are easy to refute, as in the situation with the arguments of conspiracy theorists, feminists and creators of other incredible theories around the presidential race. All these cases have a very simplified view of events: Trump's palms, which do not always form a triangle, mean a secret Masonic sign.
Porn is actively watched in Canada or Germany, but the governments of these countries have not yet been accused of total sexism. Obviously, watching erotic videos does not necessarily lead to misogyny, just as the release of the next part of the Grand Theft Auto game is not able to generate a wave of murders among teenagers.
Trump and porn are among the top searches on Google, and this kind of material is bound to get a lot of attention. Burnet only formulated a couple of theses, and then adjusted the facts to them. You can think of a thousand more similar theories. For example, that feminists staged a stir at the Oscars, and Netflix series provoked Brexit.
Most explanatory materials take an event and explain it in a few simple steps. This is exactly what the reader needs. People love not so much explanations as the reflection of their own beliefs on the pages of reputable and not so much publications. Perhaps the problem is not in the fake news phenomenon, but in selective news - a convenient truth for everyone.
Anastasia Evtushenko
