Dirty Stripes and stolen Stars (english)

And then, finally, there's the sex thing. Augments run out, poll numbers decrease, and the campaign manager pulls out the killer argument: sex. In the beginning, one fling is enough, but it doesn't knock the wind out of anybody's sails, not even in puritanical America. Then there' s the accused rape and in the end sex with minors, child abuse. Is there anything that could be worse? And because the accusations are completely unfounded, it is impossible to really refute them. That's the logic of the American campaign. Daria Temnoystrane finds it frightening and feels reminded of campaigns that the Russian secret service regularly uses in her home country against members of the opposition. A deep, frightening insight into the back rooms of the dying American democracy from an expert who has long worked as an election campaign consultant herself.