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" America's political paradigm shift "
Wyman, Rachel Dawn
O'Halloran, Kieran Anthony ; Tlili, Anwar
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Latin Dissertation
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1092466
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TLets797791
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Wyman, Rachel Dawn
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America's political paradigm shift\ Wyman, Rachel DawnO'Halloran, Kieran Anthony ; Tlili, Anwar
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King's College London (University of London)
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2019
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2019
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Ph.D.
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As representatives of the government, U.S. politicians are tasked with inciting and sustaining the American people's belief in the system. Their speeches work to reinforce the policy trajectories and ideologies that construct the political paradigms which may last, across presidencies, for decades. This thesis describes and analyses how Barack Obama utilized his presidency to sustain the last great political paradigm to grip America - that of the globalist 'New World Order' project (1990 - 2017) established in America under George H. W. Bush - and how he ultimately failed when Donald Trump successfully challenged this paradigm, most markedly within his 2016 presidential debate performance against opponent Hillary Clinton. Utilizing an innovative mixed methods research design combining corpus linguistics and qualitative coding with argument reconstruction-based critical discourse analysis, this study employs advanced methods to illuminate the complex ways in which political rhetoric is used to sustain institutional power over extended periods of time. A new research approach, based on the analysis of complex argument trajectories through critical comparison and the identification of linguistic patterns, is additionally introduced and applied to examine long-term political policy trajectories as well as the conflicting mainstream and alternative media narratives currently being produced in reference to the political and economic sectors. The results of this study show that the Obama administration's inability to produce an even economic recovery despite the doubling of the national debt, the failure of the Affordable Care Act and the White House's covert funding of the Caliphate in Syria have resulted in a severe degree of corrosion in the population's belief in institutional power, a decline that largely began under George W. Bush due to the fallout from the 2003 Iraq War and the 2007-2008 Great Recession. Largely as a result, a general paradigm shift has been triggered and is manifesting among the American people; this shift is now being narrated by a new alternative media sector - including 'QAnon' - which is introducing and promoting political, economic, and occult-based theories such as <i>New World Order Theory, Deep State Theory </i>and <i>Global Oligarchy Theory</i>, which heavily influenced Trump's successful election campaign. This situation is having a profound effect on the nation as it additionally concerns a broader scientific shift out of the materialist construct of 'reality' which has defined the globalist model and into a quantum-based ontological construct; this new model broadly overlaps with the view of reality upheld within the spiritual and religious systems which have traditionally defined the belief structures of the American people. In short, the current political paradigm shift is a result of a greater consciousness shift unfolding within the United States today, and while a destabilizing time of transition, this is also a period of transformation and great hope.
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Tlili, Anwar
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O'Halloran, Kieran Anthony
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King's College London (University of London)
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