https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/3599

Well, we all thought the big problem for our US democracy was Citizens

United/Koch Brothers big money in politics. Silly us; turns out that money

isn't all that important if you can conflate entertainment with the

electoral process. Trump masters TV, TV so-called news picks up and repeats

and repeats to death this opinionated blowhard and his hairbrained ideas,

free-floating discontent attaches to a seeming strongman and we're off and

running. JFK, Jr would be delighted by all this as his "George" magazine saw

celebrity politics coming. The magazine struggled as it was ahead of its

time but now looks prescient. George, of course, played the development

pretty lightly, basically for charm and gossip, like People, but what we are

dealing with now is dead serious. How does this get handled in the general?

Secretary Clinton is not an entertainer, and not a celebrity in the Trump,

Kardashian mold; what can she do to offset this? I'm certain the

poll-directed insiders are sure things will default to policy as soon as the

conventions are over, but I think not. And as I've mentioned, we've all

been quite content to demean government, drop civics and in general conspire

to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry. The unawareness remains

strong but compliance is obviously fading rapidly. This problem demands

some serious, serious thinking - and not just poll driven,

demographically-inspired messaging.

From Bill Ivey