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Originally Posted by redforever
This election was a tie in terms of the popular vote as far as I am concerned.
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That result, and the problem behind that result is, again, the two-party system.What do you do if your viewpoint lies outside the Democrat or Republican mainstream? What do you do when not casting a vote is implicitly supporting the party you like least, as your vote is then not counted against them? What you do when you perceive two wrong ways to do things and a mandatory choice between them?
It's a feedback loop that it is almost impossible to break out of, once you've gone far enough into it. Everything becomes a binary choice, you're either a shrill regressive leftie bent on destroying freedom and prosperity, or you are a racist misogynist ignoramus gun-fetishist. You either want to kill babies or enslave women. You either want to hug terrorists or nuke Tehran. You want to either muzzle free speech or enable deplorables to reclaim n***** for the KKK. Everyone has a hidden agenda, except those that agree with you, who are obviously just speaking hard truths and then mic-dropping.
The election of Trump, much as I think he is a terrible person and terrible choice as President, isn't the harbinger of the racial apocalypse or the destruction of social progress so much as it is the signal that the system has, for the second time, proven its complete inadequacy. All Clinton winning would have done is pushed the issue an election or two down the way. Now Americans need to think about what new myths can fuel the country once - and it WILL happen - the nostalgic romance for a world that never was has failed.