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SubjectiveLife78

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29. Are the people that voted for Trump for those reasons you stated the ones that won him the election?

Wed Dec 7, 2016, 07:11 PM

Dec 2016

Were the wall and concentration camp people the famous apathetic voters of years past that don't bother to vote? Usually the people that don't vote are the younger people. Usually the younger people aren't wall and concentration camp kinds of people.

Not sure I'm a fan of saying one side of a political divide has more logic and rationalism on its side either. Democrats, Republicans, those are just generalized names we have for groups of people. It's too easy to say the side I'm on is of course the logical and rational side, because obviously I wouldn't be on the illogical and irrational side. We're always the hero in our own story.

If every side thinks the other sides are just stupid, then nobody is ever going to agree on anything. Which is fine, maybe that's just how humans are. We're still a tribal species, despite our mass society. Technology has forced everyone together, when otherwise they wouldn't be. Or at a smaller scale at least.

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We lost control of the narrative. [View all] DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 OP

Wouldn't losing control of something imply once having it? HughBeaumont Dec 2016 #1

Re:CNBC. Obama has been pretty good for the markets, like Clinton DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 #3

But the GOP is "perceived" as the party of business, and better for business. guillaumeb Dec 2016 #5

That's the irony. The research suggests Dems are better for the economy, from the highest ... DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 #7

Much, much better for the economy. They break it; we fix it. TwilightZone Dec 2016 #18

True, but as has been posted here, the media gave minimal attention guillaumeb Dec 2016 #23

Because we lost control of the narrative pscot Dec 2016 #25

Agreed. guillaumeb Dec 2016 #26

Oh, indeed he has. HughBeaumont Dec 2016 #9

Some of the smarter ones on CNBC do. There are a few good apples . DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 #13

I'm more befuddled that people actually fell for it. TwilightZone Dec 2016 #2

Trump said real unemployment is 42% DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 #6

Because FOX, Breitbart and Trump all pushed fear, anger and resentment. And the brain chemistry KittyWampus Dec 2016 #10

All news is local. This is not an evenly distributed recovery Amishman Dec 2016 #16

Clinton won on the economy, according to exit polls. TwilightZone Dec 2016 #17

"they're clearly gullible and easily influenced" SubjectiveLife78 Dec 2016 #20

Because Democrats generally appeal to logic and rationalism. TwilightZone Dec 2016 #21

+1,000 etherealtruth Dec 2016 #24

Are the people that voted for Trump for those reasons you stated the ones that won him the election? SubjectiveLife78 Dec 2016 #29

They voted for a pathological liar who is a sociopath. TwilightZone Dec 2016 #30

Given that the corporate media is owned by the 1%, as are many politicians, guillaumeb Dec 2016 #4

The likely GOP voter isn't interested in your narrative Johonny Dec 2016 #8

A large enough number of those people WERE interested in Obama's narrative and delivery. KittyWampus Dec 2016 #11

"Everything is relative. You need to compare things to like things." SubjectiveLife78 Dec 2016 #12

Things are relative to each other. DemocratSinceBirth Dec 2016 #14

Yeah, but there's only one President at a time SubjectiveLife78 Dec 2016 #19

Beginning January 20th, 2017 workinclasszero Dec 2016 #15

Speaking in abstracts does not work. Caliman73 Dec 2016 #22

The narrative was right there, people just didn't pay much attention outside their comfort zones. Sunlei Dec 2016 #27

we lost control of getting our votes counted. The big democratic citys have nothing but broken putitinD Dec 2016 #28