This is the story of the election

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my opinion, since that’s the only opinion I have

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Before we entered this era of close elections, we also had 50% turnout, but the Electoral College was all but forgotten. A 10 million vote difference was not uncommon. We had serious third-party candidates and debates were managed by the League of Women Voters. Then the two big parties got together and took care of that. Recently, we have had a rise in participation but it is still less than 2/3 of eligible voters. On my graph, that’s the top line; Voter Eligible Participation. 60 to 80 million are completely disengaged or disaffected, not even registered.

The close lines of those who actually vote for President, the ones at the bottom, tell me that the big parties don’t even try to draw from the half of the country that is telling them they aren’t doing their job by not voting for either one of them. Ralph Nader tried to make this point in 2000 and got unfairly blamed for Al Gore’s loss. Obama campaigned in rural districts and probably did bring in a few million new voters, but then the US went back to it’s usual level of apathy. Trump did something similar in 2016, but notice that his actual votes were roughly equivalent to the population increase for Republicans historically.

Was the real story of Hillary and Kamala the gender gap? I don’t know how to prove that, but I suspect it’s true. Biden had a similar bump to Obama, possibly due to the reaction to their predecessors. When things get bad enough, Democrats finally get their butts off the easy chair and go vote. But apathy sets in again, and add the class ceiling to that, and 10 million people stay home. That’s the current count, 81 million voted for Biden, 71 million for Harris.

Sources: Voter Turnout in Presidential Elections | The American Presidency Project
Wikipedia for Presidential vote counts

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This election was unique, there is report of fraud. Donald Trump won the election some will say Trump was given the victory because Fox News called it. There is report it was not supposed to be but because of right wing move. Donald Trump was made president in a fast count that cannot be possible because it will take 2 or 3 days tops. The new leader of republican party, John Thune is gonna go Donald Trump and save America. He can do it, it’s all gonna be right wing now !!!

That’s all folks ! Were gonna see positive things in USA like economy and health are gonna be balance but war will come ! It will be North Korea, Iran, or a new one like Ethiopia. Trump needs war.

Kamala was never going to win or Hillary, the only one that was gonna win was Bobby Kennedy he could of won being democrat. But like a famous saying says " You can’t beat them then join them " that showed Trump was gonna win one way or another. The democrats fighting between each other made them lose. Good things will come the gap of women between Donald vs Hillary wasn’t the reason they lost but based by women vote that also voted for Trump. It was based a poor majority of USA that knows America was in trouble. African american vote was given to Trump not Kamala Harris. This is not about color and few people can’t feed their homes.

Simply Trump is the solution and he was gonna continue in 2020 he would of finished Putin and we won’t have the promblems of this ! I blame Pompeo and Pelosi they ruined his chance. Trump can halve the economy of China and stop Putin in 2021 was the world afraid of a Trump that was powerful like Reagan, Marcus Aurelius, Cyrus The Great, and King David !!!

We needed it but bad decisions by the democrats. But still Trump can have some things in 2020 for all of us and it will be good.

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The story goes way deeper than that.

How about considering how Hollywood seduced a people into delusional thinking, impossible expectations, and the glorification of law breaking, profiteering and disregard for others.

Or when Reagan, the Hollywood guy, forced the choice, with the engineer sciencie Carter, - and the nation clearly voted Greed Is Good, Too Much Is Never Enough, Ayn Rand became our messiah and we never looked back.

Or how about allowing companies to merge endlessly until they grew into private interests (with only profits in mind) more powerful than governments?

You show me the voting statistics, but never mention the millions spent in cyber manipulation, profiling and harvesting and the right wing engage voters, and the Democrats never modifying ancient campaign strategies instead of starting a Democratic Voters Online Discussion Forum, for us to be able to network? Not to mention Russia’s meddle which is probably way the heck more significant than we know.

How about instead of nonstop panics panhandling for donations, send us texts with talking points about what was at stake, then at the bottom beg for a little cash.
People needed information and engaging - and another election cycle went by with nothing. Oh and incidentally accumulating a few more dismissals, doors slammed in my face, they had it all figured out, back off.

And folks may get upset at my writing, but no one is getting anywhere constructive or positive, without first facing our self-absorbed self-serving nature, it’s in our genes, (and unchecked, it guarantees our utter self destruction.)

But I fear we won’t start doing any of that sort of thinking, we are past that point, there will simply be a lot of handwaving, until the wheels fly off.

After the dust settles perhaps conditions will make the survivors more attentive to those more holistic and down to Earth lessons about our selves and our place in the natural order of things.

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I don’t mention a lot of things. That’s how communication works.

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How will a person who’s only interest is himself, and who has utter contempt for laws, for oath of office, and who has collected utterly angry ruthless people with vengeance lust around him.

I sure hope in a couple years you can drag this up and show me what I fool I was, but I fear you’ll find yourself shocked, I mean shocked, how could such a thing have happened???

How indeed.

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Here we go again . You Cant deal with reality of democrat loser party who cant engage with the working class, provide :poop: leadership, focus their campaign on identity politics and talk about issues that no one cares about , yet them and their supports have to blame someone else eg russia.

They are the mother of all Losers

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And you can’t recognize when the working class has being hoodwinked with an amazing multi-decadal brainwashing campaign.

I doubt you care, but I found this an interesting article:

By Kurt Andersen
updated December 28, 2017

… What’s problematic is going overboard—letting the subjective entirely override the objective; thinking and acting as if opinions and feelings are just as true as facts.

The American experiment, the original embodiment of the great Enlightenment idea of intellectual freedom, whereby every individual is welcome to believe anything she wishes, has metastasized out of control.

From the start, our ultra-individualism was attached to epic dreams, sometimes epic fantasies—every American one of God’s chosen people building a custom-made utopia, all of us free to reinvent ourselves by imagination and will.

In America nowadays, those more exciting parts of the Enlightenment idea have swamped the sober, rational, empirical parts.

Little by little for centuries, then more and more and faster and faster during the past half century, we Americans have given ourselves over to all kinds of magical thinking, anything-goes relativism, and belief in fanciful explanation—small and large fantasies that console or thrill or terrify us.

And most of us haven’t realized how far-reaching our strange new normal has become. …

Much more than the other billion or so people in the developed world, we Americans believe—really believe —in the supernatural and the miraculous, in Satan on Earth, in reports of recent trips to and from heaven, and in a story of life’s instantaneous creation several thousand years ago.
Kurt Andersen

No wonder we are getting ready to start self-cannibalizing ourselves.

… consensus that grew out of the New Deal produced robust economic growth, rich corporate profits, and an expanding middle class enabled by a powerful labor movement. But it all started fraying in the 1960s with the ascendancy of the civil rights movement, women’s rights, and opposition to the war in Vietnam. The backlash was severe. And beginning around 1970, Big Business and the wealthiest beneficiaries of the US economy resolved to upend the consensus.

Acting alone at first but increasingly in coordination, they undertook a massive campaign to reverse the liberal tax, social welfare, consumer protection, and environmental policies on which American society had come to be based. In Evil Geniuses, author Kurt Andersen dives into the history of this campaign and names the names of the men—they were all men—who pandered to the backlash. …

by Kurt Andersen

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