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Re: Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

Posted by Prof David West on Nov 07, 2016; 1:15am
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If Trump were to win this election, the number one reason is the insistence of democrats and liberals to demonize and marginalize the populace supporting Trump.

If the only people that support him are "angry" racist" "xenophobic" "out-of-work-white-men" "could-not-graduate-from-college-because-of-low-IQ" etc. etc. he could not possibly command more than 10% of the vote.

Trump is a terrible person — but NOT atypical of the population in general. Projecting his worst qualities onto the masses that support him is a huge, hopefully fatal, strategic mistake on the part of the Clinton campaign. But it would be simply a continuation of a fifty year trend: a small elite that firmly believe they are the only ones capable of and deserving of running the government and that anyone that opposes them is ignorant and dangerous.

davew


On Sat, Nov 5, 2016, at 12:12 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:

My opinion: scorn is a very powerful position; you can be scornful of God.  People who feel powerless and left out find Trump appealing because they identify with the power implied by his scorn of the elite, the establishment, etc.  Remember Spiro Agnew calling the educated "pointy headed intellectuals"?

In the meantime I'm very concerned with who's going to win the election.

Frank


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On Nov 5, 2016 12:59 PM, "Owen Densmore" <[hidden email]> wrote:
A quote from the article is pretty telling:

In America today, compared with 50 years ago, three times as many working-age men are completely outside the work force. This pattern is occurring throughout the developed world — and the consequences are not merely economic. Feeling superfluous is a blow to the human spirit. It leads to social isolation and emotional pain, and creates the conditions for negative emotions to take root.

If I were one of them, I'd surely vote Trump.

We do need to get over "who's going to win?" and ask "why has Trump got such a *huge* following?"

   -- Owen

On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 11:58 AM, Owen Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Marcus Daniels <[hidden email]> wrote:


I found the article from the Dalai Lama in the NYT today fairly plausible explanation of why we have the current problem.    But, I would say, no, there will be no brotherhood with the Bundy's.   The redistributionist approach (that Brooks -- libertarian -- objects to elsewhere) arises in order to give the possibility of free enterprise, not to preserve it for those that haven't realized they've simply failed to be sufficiently enterprising.


I just took a look at the article, and it certainly is interesting and puts into perspective why wealthy countries have a "The Sky Is Falling" syndrome.


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