{"id":47478,"date":"2019-07-28T08:21:35","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T13:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47478"},"modified":"2019-07-28T08:21:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T13:21:36","slug":"politics-and-algorithms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47478","title":{"rendered":"Politics and Algorithms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Politics and Algorithms<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Edward Hopper\u00a0Sailing\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>1911<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a development that has long been evident in continental Europe, and that has now arrived on the shores of the US and UK. It is the somewhat slow but very certain dissolution of long-existing political parties, organizations and groups. That\u2019s what I was seeing during the Robert Mueller clown horror show on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mueller was not just the Democratic Party\u2019s last hope, he was their identity. He was the anti-Trump. Well, he no longer is, he is not fit to play that role anymore. And there is nobody to take it over who is not going to be highly contested by at least some parts of the party. In other words: it\u2019s falling apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that\u2019s not necessarily a bad thing, it\u2019s a natural process, parties change as conditions do and if they don\u2019t do it fast enough they disappear. Look at the candidates the Dems have. Can anyone imagine the party, post-Mueller, uniting behind Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders or Kamala Harris? And then for one of them to beat Donald Trump in 2020?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was just watching a little clip from Sean Hannity, doing what Trump did last week, which is going after the Squad. Who he said are anti-Israel socialists and, most importantly, the de facto leaders of the party, not Nancy Pelosi. That is a follow-up consequence of Mueller\u2019s tragic defeat, the right can now go on the chase. The Squad is the face of the Dems because Trump and Hannity have made them that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The upcoming Horowitz and Durham reports on their respective probes into \u201cmeddling into the meddling\u201d will target many people in the Democratic Party, US intelligence services, and the media. In that order. Can the Dems survive such a thing? It\u2019s hard to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Politics and Algorithms It\u2019s a development that has long been evident in continental Europe, and that has now arrived on the shores of the US and UK. It is the somewhat slow but very certain dissolution of long-existing political parties, organizations and groups. That\u2019s what I was seeing during the Robert Mueller clown horror show […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1597,15593,18562,19768,13926,5582,26374,26375,14088,11404,16768,637,13924,786,5177,10522,26376],"class_list":["post-47478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-algorithms","tag-bernie","tag-biden","tag-blair","tag-boris","tag-brexit","tag-cummings","tag-dems","tag-farage","tag-gop","tag-mueller","tag-politics","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-technology","tag-the-automatic-earth","tag-trump","tag-uncivil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47479,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47478\/revisions\/47479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}