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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEvery day I wake up and wonder why the voters of the US subjected us to such an asshole
Everything trump says, everything he does is either being an asshole or a jerk. He has no good plan for making this country better, he flirts with foreign governments that don't have human rights for his own gain, and every time I turn on the news he's making a fool of himself and our country. Thanks American voter, for nothing - and that's what you have gained.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)choice.
It was those who couldn't "support the lesser of 2 evils"........facts do matter
Orsino
(37,428 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Cosmocat
(14,564 posts)Only 1/3 of the country had the simple god darned sense to vote for the competent, reasonable, sane (and extraordinarily qualified) candidate.
1/3 of the country is lost, flat out.
BUT, the nuance is that 1/3 of the country was willing to accept 45 (and right wing bullshit generally).
That is the soft spot.
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,985 posts)uncle ray
(3,156 posts)nm
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)should be making certain NOW long before the next election, that gerrymandered districts are taken down, that EVERYONE has valid voting I.D.'s. Repubs have cheating down to a fine art, few voting places in democratic districts, strict I.D. laws. They even quoted the incorrect dates to vote, throwing people off. They HAVE to cheat, to "win".
Cosmocat
(14,564 posts)it isn't just one thing, either ...
Vinca
(50,269 posts)The true believers think their lord and savior Donald J. Trump is doing just fine. A fellow just called in and said with great authority that we lost jobs under Obama, but Trump is creating jobs by traveling all over the country making deals with companies. They live in a parallel, fact-free universe.
nm
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)The Carrier jobs that he supposedly saved last year that received a huge amount of publicity are now going to be gone by the end of this year.
So, he paid $7 million to keep 1,000 jobs around another year.
Maybe he'll do another deal to keep them around through 2018 and it will now be $70 million instead of $7 million?
JI7
(89,248 posts)was their primary primordial (conscious or subconscious) reason why they did it, despite what they claim was the reason.
Stellar
(5,644 posts)...and I had to beg my husband for a credit card because even working women had to get approval from their husband before obtaining one, and he also had to sign for me to have my tubes tied.
The corporate media and commentators rarely if ever mentioned this.
Peace
Cosmocat
(14,564 posts)it didn't magically happen on November 8th.
This country has indulged republican jackassery, their deranged parstianship for my entire adult life (the last quarter century).
It has been going on 30 years of WWI type military barrages of their bullshit and our media enabling it that has caused this country to become so course, so superficial, so souless, that DJT was able to not only win the nomination of one of our two major parties, but the Presidency.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)From the Buddhist perspective, the 3 mental poisons are anger, greed, and delusion (ignorance). When we let those 3 negative emotions rule us, we think say, and do stupid things that ultimately hurt ourselves and others.
athena
(4,187 posts)couldn't stand the idea of being led by a woman.
That's the only reason HRC is not president today. She was an intelligent and highly experienced stateswoman with solid policy ideas, running against a man with zero government experience and no idea of what policy even means. There was only one reason to vote for the man, and that was that he was male.
dlk
(11,561 posts)Corporations, including the corporate media, played the largest role in getting Trump elected. Then, there's voter suppression. We must continue to register voters, even assist with purchasing the ID they need to register, if necessary, and drive them to the polls in buses. Nothing short of that will counter the enormous corporate influence in our government. They are all about the money. We need to be about something more.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)A switched vote is the one vote that counts twice! Each one changes the margin by two votes.
B Stieg
(2,410 posts)Branding, like Trump's campaign, focuses on creating, promoting and selling consumers an image rather than the specific attributes of a product or service. To an oldster like me, this is all just smoke and mirrors.
But "Only I can fix it...as an Outsider...where I'll drain the swamp" created a powerful image of a hegemonic, self-determining ("rugged individualist" , vibrant masculinity long popularized on screens big and small, a vision that most Americans see as natural, eternal, universal and, frankly, superior.
While there's no question these voters didn't dig deep enough, they were only thinking that they were voting for a hero in a movie--an archetypal American hero--rather than understanding that the work of government is far, far different from what some cinematic whiz bang can pull off in just about 2 hours.
They were lazy, they were duped and many are biased. But they also had been well-conditioned to swallow the latest lifestyle brand (sans details), especially one using the most powerful (and abused) of all the terms used to sell us things, "new and (by implication) improved)."
But it's Pete Townsend who's right ("old boss, same as the new boss" , although this may be even harder to see these days as we watch the Ryans, Mulvaneys and Putins of the world manipulate our "Useful Idiot In-Chief" who, along with his voters, think he's actually in charge.
oasis
(49,381 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Blame ought be assigned where it belongs, the fucking Republican cheaters at the ones to blame.
mdbl
(4,973 posts)so I don't think it was just the machines.