re: #283 Blind Frog Belly White

Not to put too fine a point on it, but Trump didn’t win because people in the middle of nowhere didn’t have access to the information. Those places weren’t going to go for Clinton in any case. The voters who swung it for Trump were the folks in places that have cable, and have internet, and who thus had access to all the information they needed. They’re just too stupid to properly evaluate it.

And sure, you could call me elitist, or say my attitude is why Trump won, but really - Trump won because a lot of America is dumb enough to vote for him.

re: #287 Backwoods_Sleuth

Exactly ^^THIS^^.

In Kentucky it was all about the dying coal industry and the eejits believed every single lie.

Dumbness and stupidity had a lot to do with it, but don’t discount the power of hate and bigotry against those not like them.