Presidential election, 2016

[Eric the Green]

(11-09-2016, 06:56 PM)Odin Wrote: Cracked: How Half of America Lost It's Fucking Mind

Or, how patronizing urban elitism and the collapse of small town economies caused Trump.

I've been warming of my fellow left-wingers about this for ages, screaming like some Old Testament prophet, and it has kept falling on deaf ears, because what do we dumb hicks from the sticks know?

What DO you guys know? That you know that you want your guns? Or what, exactly do you know? You tell me.

A majority of you guys (though not you) vote on the basis of personal insult and resentment about what some urban folks might say about you.

This time, some people on the coasts and near the southern border voted against what the rural folks and their candidate said loudly about them. They were outvoted this time, but that could change.

If people vote on the basis of personal feelings, and who thinks what about whom, it obscures the issues that matter.

But keep on screaming. You won't stop, whether you need to stop or not, or whether anyone insults you guys or not. That's the way you are.

Pretty dumb. Pretty ignorant. That's what a lot of you guys are, as demonstrated by how you vote. And if you vote because of what we say, because of how you vote, it's a vicious circle. Not that this concerns you at all.

I'm sorry, but I am even more mad at what you do, than you are about what we say about what you do.