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An Excellent Sci-Fi Short: A Phone Call to the Past: "The Give and Take"

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Hecuba's daughter1/13/2019 5:56:35 pm PST

re: #236 HappyWarrior

I feel bad for their kids but not them. They voted their prejudices on an idiot who doesn’t know the first thing about agriculture and doesn’t care.

Most people aren’t as wired into politics as those here. When you have the Chicago Tribune endorsing Gary Johnson, when you have the media focusing on her emails and not spending even more time on his incompetence and treachery, when you have the traditional candidates offering no real solutions to the offshoring and outsourcing of jobs, when you have Comey come out about 10 days before the election to sabotage one candidate, it’s not surprising that the traitor can be elected. He had a simple story to tell: successful businessman who became a billionaire real estate developer; it doesn’t matter that the story was false — because the average reader had no reason to disbelieve the claims,

So I will be forgiving of those who made the mistake of supporting Trump in 2016, but not those who continue to support him, who remain deluded about his business acumen and character.