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I really don't understand why people don't care more about conflict of interest. Certainly his base seem to give zero fucks about it.

• breatheoften 10y ago
  Many people care. I think saying people don't care about the conflicts of interest is the propaganda of normalization at work. https://medium.com/being-liberal/the-narrative-of-normalization-a7ea8d3c4d0c https://medium.com/being-liberal/the-narrative-of-normalizat...
• mikeash 10y ago
  It's not that people don't care enough, it's that not enough people care. No matter how hard you care, your vote still counts the same.
• johnpowell 10y ago
  And he just doubled the rate at Mar-a-Lago (now 200K) which he calls the "Winter White House". Nothing fishy there.
• untog 10y ago
  42% of Trump voters think he should be allowed to operate a private email server while President: https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemcneal/trump-voters-think-he-should-be-able-to-have-a-private-email https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemcneal/trump-voters-think-... Which is to say: politics is based on tribal feeling of belonging, and not factual information. Hillary having a private email server is awful because she's Hillary, but Trump having one is fine because he's Trump. In this particular case there isn't any provable corruption here, just coincidence. Given the rest of the openly corrupt move the administration has already pulled, it's just not worth making a huge fuss about this in particular.