Why Can’t America see how Stupid Trump is? It’s the Media — Market Mad House

America cannot see how stupid President Donald J. Trump (R-New York) is because of the dumbness of our media.

The media’s refusal to expose the stupidity of past leaders; and their policies, paved the way for the complete stupidity of the Trump administration. Revealingly, this pattern of behavior has occurred in other countries.

In particular, the Trump phenomenon mirrors the Brexit debacle in the United Kingdom. Interestingly, Oxford Professor Simon Wren-Lewis blames the British media for Brexit in an interesting New Statesman column.

How the Media Wrecked Britain

Wren-Lewis thinks the British media made Brexit by not reporting he failures of the British government’s austerity program. To explain, under austerity various administrations cut government services to the bone.

Critics such as the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) thinktank allege austerity did vast harm to Britain. In fact, the IPPR claims austerity is responsible for over 131,000 deaths, The Guardian reports.

For instance, the IPPR alleges austerity makes kids unhealthy by eliminating school gym programs and cutting school health services. In particular, Her Majesty’s government cut funding for physical education from £451 million to £100 million a year, the IPPR alleges.

The Lies that Led to Brexit

Wren-Lewis blames the media for austerity in his book The Lies We Were Told; Politics, Economics, Austerity and Brexit.

“The UK convinced itself that austerity was the only way forward, despite most academic economists saying otherwise,” Wren-Lewis writes in The New Statesman. “It was the media that promoted claims that governments were just like households, even though first-year economics students are taught why this is not true.”

“And then it was the media that pushed (or left unchallenged) the idea that austerity was the result of Labour profligacy: it was a straight lie but it played a…