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Originally Posted by Trollheart
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Huh?
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It's an American thing. Before the Civil War the states considered themselves mini countries who were all experiments in democracy with the right to their own particular vision (the United States "are" because it was a plural concept) and after that idea was destroyed by the war once it was made clear by the US government that this was a singular country where you couldn't opt out if you didn't like being a part of it anymore, meaning that states were not singular entities banding together for mutual benefit but a part of a whole (the United States "is").
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Originally Posted by Neapolitan
That's not even 1% of the total population of the US. So don't act like she won by a land slide.  |
Getting less votes is not decisive. Getting enough votes to have a public mandate is decisive. In no way did Trump do that. He won through electoral math.
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Trump won cause he worked more diligently than Rodham-Clinton did on the campaign trail. While Hillary was hacking green globs into a glass of water, playing the absentee candidate. Trump was out there having rallies and winning votes. Endearing himself to the American People. Making America Great Again!
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Trump won because he appealed to people's basest instincts rather than their logic. He appealed to nationalism, he appealed to anti-establishment sentiment to a people who felt that their nationalism wasn't being represented, he appealed to the promise of stability in an uncertain political landscape through blunt statements whether or not they made sense, but most importantly he appealed to the authoritarian desire to have a strong leader who projected strength and made his constituency feel like they had someone who would protect their desires (i.e. protect them like a parent).
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