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Originally Posted by Robbie
I think that is changing this year. If you look back over history...things seem to go along for a while until people finally get tired of it.
I think that the emergence of Bernie and Trump in their respective parties shows that people aren't going to accept more of the same.
It started with Pres. Obama promising "hope and change". People gave him a shot. Ended up with something not all that different from Bush in most ways.
The mood of the country is easy to see. Bernie and Trump are proof that people are ready to anything...as long as it's not the establishment in Washington D.C. that have done such a poor job.
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Agreed, to a lesser extent. If you want to go to history, consider this. By my own conservative estimate less than 5% of the cultures in the last 3000 years had the freedom and representation we do. And most of them lasted less than 200 years.
You and I are lucky we can articulate these thoughts. Most people just have a sense of unease and the feeling that "things aren't right", and can easily be herded by the media. Bernie Sanders is the result. As I said, and then Nate Silver said, the media just needed a candidate so they could make the large part of their annual revenue. Only people with no knowledge of government think he'd be any different from the "promise and fail" politicians we seem to have so many of.
Trump is a different animal. He is a desperate hope for people who know concretely that the US is fucked because of the elites. For every Rotherham or Cologne, there is a group of people who imagine that a "strong" leader will save them.
They both make sense in some ways. Johnny one note Sanders is correct about his one issue, income inequality. Trump is correct that the laws regarding immigration ought to be enforced.
Trump is certainly smarter and more vital, but he's never lived among the poor or outside of New York City. How is a person who inherited his position and portfolio going to empathize? You and I are numbers to him, I suspect, nothing more.