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I've complained about Trump win and discussed consequences - and possible actions. However, I feel rather offended by a suggestion that I'm not democratic in vi
by avmich 10y ago
I've complained about Trump win and discussed consequences - and possible actions. However, I feel rather offended by a suggestion that I'm not democratic in views.
I also felt Trump won democratically, more or less. Played by existed rules, nobody loudly objected to rules before voting - sounds fair. That was until I looked into things with different perspective.
I think election and voting are two rather different things. While voting took a day and was fair by itself, election was going on for a couple of years - enough to be able to work out democratic approach. It this case it was a sort of propaganda - the populist way Trump chose and rather skillfully followed.
Now I don't think the winning is too legitimate. However in practice I think we're left more with attempts to keep the good parts of existing system, protecting them from possible and likely mistakes or deliberate attacks from the president. This protection will take efforts and won't likely be perfect, but that's I think what we have.
So, lots of work ahead. A good thing is that the election forces us to look into root causes of the problems. But all that has little to do with rejection of democracy by those who oppose Trump.