re: #155 freetoken

Lots of disgruntled folk over the election … but I think we need to keep our collective eyes on the real ball.

Trump not only won by whistling more whistles than the Shriners in a parade, but he did so by explicitly reaching out to the less educated the unfortunate.

It’s not a novel thing, but it nevertheless was unusual for a Presidential candidate.

What does this tell us?

I do wonder whether escapism (television, such as reality tv) has pushed us over the edge.

Trump won in part because he was able to exploit “misgivings” about Hillary, many of them planted or nurtured by the Sanders campaign. After all, it wasn’t the Trump campaign that came up with demands for her speech transcripts. Or reversed itself from “nobody cares about [your] emails” to “that’s a concern.”