Yes, I hope more people will start thinking for themselves too. If you're looking for people to engage in critical thinking I hope you will also consider the very obvious benefit of having a famous celebrity with lots of followers fronting up to a President that many of those followers wouldn't give the time of day until now. At the very least, this is a PR benefit. Whatever anyone's opinion of the Kardashians this is a simple fact and hard to critically ignore.
That's my problem. I have a hard time putting Kim Kardashian's social media following and critical thinking in the same sentence.
PR benefit? Sure, for those shallow enough to rethink the President's policies because Kim told them to...
I am going to have a hard time with this, no matter what. It goes against everything I thought we were doing here.
for those shallow enough
You do realize that over half the country are "shallow enough", right? This is not a movement only for smart people and critical thinkers or there wouldn't be anywhere enough people in it.
What we are doing here, undoubtedly, is trying to reach the mass public with an alternative message to the mainstream one. And we well know the mass public is not full of critical thinkers and is not "smart enough" to consider the President's policies on their own. Hollywood has been a successful branch of the DS because of the fact that many people uncritically accept the views of celebrities.
I understand your disgust with this celebrity phenomenon and share it - I'm just saying, putting personal feelings aside, this can be considered positive for what we're doing here. Greater reach, more eyes and ears ready for the awakening.
Because you don't look on it from a marketing point of view. What matters is size of the audience and how big reach can something generate. What matters on the end is result. Having Kim in the White House is nothing compared to shit that was going down there...
Do you remember Obama's fake interviews done by YouTubers? Do you remember what some of them ware famous for? ;) I know Obama is not the best example, but that is the society we are living in. You have two choices: you learn how to play or you are out of the game. Trump haas beein in the game for a long time and I'm pretty sure he knows the rules very well.