Machine of manufacturing consent no longer
works.
10 years from now, and it's not a joke, I
claim, rape will be called 'well, why not
enhanced seduction technique.'
I think Trump is disgusting, like, you know,
with Trump I become a racist.
It will a kind of big awakening - new political
processes will be set in motion.
Without further ado, let's talk to the man
himself.
Slavoj Zizek joins us live from New York.
Thanks for joining us here at RT, glad to
have you with us today.
You've said many unflattering things about
the US president-elect, Donald Trump.
Yet you also said you'd vote for him.
Why do you say that?
It's not that I favour him for what he positively
stands.
What I'm afraid of is the status quo consensus
here.
People are... people seem to be getting used
to 'things don't really change, the same situation
just drags on' and we are, I claim, slowly
drifting towards ecological catastrophe, maybe
a new world war, new racial tensions and so
on and so on.
And the democrats were in this election the
pure party of the establishment of the ruling
consensus.
So, disgusted as I am with Donald Trump, I
hope that precisely the shock of electing
him will maybe trigger some restructuring
of the entire political space, where new options
will maybe emerge - like and authentic leftist
movement around Bernie Sanders and others.
I think it's not enough to, if Hillary were
to win, that would ... it's not enough to
say 'Oh, we avoided the catastrophe' and so
on.
No!
The real catastrophe is the status quo!
Everything appears ok, and so on and so on,
but we are slowly drifting towards a catastrophe.
We need an awakening!
In the run up to the election, most mainstream
media as well as most mainstream polls were
predicting overwhelmingly a Hillary Clinton
victory.
Why did they fail to see this coming?
I have ... I think there are a couple of reasons.
But maybe the most interesting one is that,
I think, the democratic strategists totally
misread why and in what way people identify
with Trump.
Most of us who were observing the electoral
process remember how often left liberal media
claimed 'Now we got Donald Trump with his
pants down, in an open embarrassment.'
When he said something improper or made a
mistake and they thought 'Now this is his
end, he committed suicide.'
No!
Not only he didn't, this even helped him.
Because ordinary people didn't identify with
and ideal Trump.
They perceived him as 'one of us' precisely
through is vulgarity, mistakes, and so on
and so on.
That's how political identification works.
That's a big lesson.
Some of Trump's ideas though, they are regarded
as very dangerous, backwards, xenophobic,
certainly by many of the people are protesting
against him right now.
Isn't that enough to make Clinton a better
choice for America?
Many would say so.
Again, although I think not all Trump's ideas
are radically bad, of course I am terrified
at his racism, some of his economic ideas.
Even more, in my old age I am...
