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Also please don't flag this article. I just noticed that an article about Grubhub CEO telling Trump supporter employees to resign has been flagged. I hope there

• rz2k 10y ago
  There are a lot of people who don't want to have to have the argument about why this sort of cute posturing, much like talking about the popular vote count[1] undermines the serious work they think needs to be done. It fits a convenient narrative for a moment--we'll show them! However it is not a movement, and is an expression of despair by a small number rather than an actual desire to secede. The temporary defeatist attitude, too, ends up getting quoted, long after people have figured out to move on productively. To a lesser extent I think a focus on choosing DNC scapegoats sets back the important self examination that needs to be accomplished by people who were certain that the policy directions they were pursuing would also be beneficial to the people who voted for Trump. Was it a message delivery problem, a failure to understand a broader spectrum of grievances than economic pressures alone? [1] It doesn't matter whether a shift away from electoral college would be better in the context of Nov 8, 2016, because the well known parameters of the electoral college determined voters' participation rates and the candidates' strategies.