If you were in this situation and had a choice between letting your family starve or supporting and adminstration that promises to make you whole by taking away benefits from someone else, most of us would do the exact same thing.
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Well, the key word here is “promises.” Only if I believed those promises would I vote for such an administration. Although I think “fell for” would describe it better in this case. And I don’t think nearly as many people would fall for what trump is saying if he didn’t have a massive propaganda operation behind him.
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The democratic party ,I am afraid, had not offered a compelling alternative yet to these swing voters
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The democratic party hasn’t offered anything “compelling” to anyone in decades. I guess “hope and change” was mildly interesting, but it was quite vague and not really all that grand. Hillary, as brilliant and tough as she is, had pretty much zero vision. Part of the problem is that people want a great and compelling vision from their candidates when, in reality, any great and compelling vision is most likely a bunch of bs. So a candidate (or a party) has to choose between 1) selling a grand, compelling, bullshit vision or 2) plotting a course that will keep our country and our economy and our society on a steadily upward path. The democrats choose to sell the latter, and it just doesn’t sell.
