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It is a part of the phenomenon of being "surprised by a Trump win". Listening to the news from just one bubble and interpreting everything through it, it does s
by rdtsc 10y ago
It is a part of the phenomenon of being "surprised by a Trump win". Listening to the news from just one bubble and interpreting everything through it, it does seem like it should have been some extraordinary Russian interference, extreme statistical fluke, a secret cabal of white supremacists, FBI coups or something like that. It is unimaginable that people simply voted for him.
- vixen99 10y agoI'm not taking sides but might be best to try to understand why sixty three million of your fellow citizens voted for your unimaginable or possibly only for 'a-complete-change- because-previous-administrations-had-done-nothing-to-sort- out-the-dreadful-state-America-is-in' and Hillary appeared to them to be the last person likely to alter that. 'Dreadful'? If you're baffled by this, check the stats on US child mortality, median wage, educational attainment for starters. And maybe this guy has something - http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/01/trump-how-did-this-happen/ http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/01/trump-how-did-this-happ....