The apparent level of sheer irrationality in voting for a party still offering a #Nodealbrexit can only really be accounted in terms of the structure of political attention. Garry #Kasparov has identified a key methodology of post-truth populism whereby critical faculties are 》 https://twitter.com/SimonBruni/status/1199956287435526144

《overwhelmed by a tsunami of lies and half-truths which exhaust the ability of the people to attribute relevance by which to sort and examine information.
This is the primary method by which both #Trump and #LiarJohnson have defied a rational assessment of their worthless souls.

《It will be an interesting academic study (should rational progressive voices reassert their necessary hegemony), to compare and contrast the styles of #LiarJohnson and #Trumpolini in #flooding their respective political cultures. #Trumpolini's method appears to be a kind of 》

《mass "service-denial" approach, in which he creates a narcissistic universe in which even his own body is bizarrely misrepresented. The question "what good does it do him?" in relation to any single lie assumes a rational accountability which is simply not there. #LiarJohnson》

》meanwhile has a more nuanced approach whereby he will utilise the shadows created by his own ambiguous statements. He will say one thing, suggest its opposite and then float off at a tangent. His public persona as the intellectual classical scholar on the one hand, and the 》

《affable jovial clown on the other is a case in point.
In both cases a wanton contempt for any aspiration to assay the Truth, (as opposed to the "truth"), is borne of an entitlement stemming from a critically #arresteddevelopment.
These are 2 emotionally defective and 》

《intellectually defective individuals who are knowingly (either by themselves or their strategists) employing similar distraction techniques to avoid rational scrutiny.
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