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Im not sure that many people voted for any of the individuals. Hillary represented the establishment. The last two presidents were a huge and dramatic shift aw
by geggam 9y ago
Im not sure that many people voted for any of the individuals.
Hillary represented the establishment. The last two presidents were a huge and dramatic shift away from status quo.
I think people are voting for the least likely to be a part of the machine. I wonder what happens when the people realize any candidate who gets into the primary is part of the machine ?
- kazagistar 9y ago> I wonder what happens when the people realize any candidate who gets into the primary is part of the machine ? They stop voting like half the country already has.
- autokad 9y agoa lot of them has simply given up, hence the opiod crisis
- Clubber 9y agoYes, it was also nothing new. Put a Russian ad side by side with a right or left wing PAC ad and I'd wager you'd have a hard time telling the difference. There were samples released on the internet. There were both liberal and conservative ads taken out too, so it wasn't just pro-Trump like most people believe. It seems as if the campaign was more to divide the country than pick any particular candidate. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/business/russian-ads-facebook-targeting/?utm_term=.eb06a43cfe48 https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/business/russia...
- specialist 9y agoThis is a depressing, liberating read: Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government http://a.co/3Z1dt6b http://a.co/3Z1dt6b TL;DR: People vote based on identity and morph their views to match their chosen candidate. Struggling to accept this, I've now more or less given up on persuasion, messaging, framing, platforms, etc.