Our Growing Political Dysfunction – What’s to Be Done?

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(10-23-2016, 08:38 PM)Dan Wrote: http://peterturchin.com/blog/2016/10/23/...o-be-done/

Quote:This is from a Reuters article yesterday: “Only half of Republicans would accept Clinton, the Democratic nominee, as their president. And if she wins, nearly 70 percent said it would be because of illegal voting or vote rigging, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday.”
“I’ve never seen an election like this. Not in my lifetime. Certainly not in modern history,” told Reuters Lonna Atkeson, head of the Center for the Study of Voting, Elections, and Democracy at the University of New Mexico.
Very true. To see another horrible election like this one we would have to go back to the nineteenth century America. Although, thankfully, things are not as bad as they were in 1860...



http://peterturchin.com/blog/2016/10/23/...o-be-done/

This is the kind of BS you expect from a poor country in Africa or SE Asia, where the losing side always claims a rigged election and threatens civil war if they don't get their way. A lot of this crap comes from the Deep South and Greater Appalachia, so there is an "ethnic" element involved, just like in the BS in developing countries.