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> Trump won due to the public backlash from social policies that originated within the humanities departments No, he won because people believed silly lies.

• jajko 2y ago
  Silly comfortable feel-good lies. I hate the situation just like the next guy, but he is a symptom of larger issues in societies currently, not really restricted to US (look at who keeps winning European elections recently). Addiction to quick dopamine kicks (from social networks aka soul cancer for most, and earlier from reality shows) manifests also like that, people subconsciously seek them and patience and long term focus diminishes. How many people here are properly addicted in same way via ie doom scrolling. US public education still struggles to teach scientific views on world (creationism push in the south), don't expect masses of highly intelligent critically thinking people coming out of them. I personally think also PC, LBGTQ+ topics etc. were pushed too hard too fast for most people's taste, creating quiet but effective resistance and backslash that only manifests anonymously in ie elections. Some of MeToo headliners were female sexual predators themselves, you really can't come up with more effective way how to destroy it quickly for good. Elite is what it is because its comparatively small in numbers. And echo chambers can easily make one feel like whole world is like that. At the end this is democracy too, like it or not.