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In reply to the discussion: Trump did not win [View all]McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)We have to win hearts as well as minds so how do we pull the heart strings of the average (math challenged) Americans.
First---make them understand that the hack happened and that it very likely came from outside the country. When a sitting president was selected for a second time due to an exit poll/tabulated vote discrepancy in Ohio in 2004, the average voter said to himself "Everything is fair in American politics." However, he would have been a little bit more alarmed (as in hopping mad) if he thought that another country--say China--had hacked the election. Because the average math challenged American has something analogous to white privilege. Call it U.S. Citizen privilege. He or she knows that if he or she is kidnapped by a foreign power and held hostage, the whole world will take notice. Because we are Americans. Duh.
No American wants to think that he or she has a puppet president. Because then we lose our American privilege.