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I think the important difference is that some people care a lot about issues and not so much about the person. Other people fall hook-line-and-sinker for the candidate and accept whatever he says are the important issues and positions.
We see this a LOT with Trump fans: They really don't care what he says, what he believes, what his platform is. He can even flip-flop completely and they shift their views to match. All they care about is the person. During the Cold War we called this The Cult of Personality, referring to the popularity of Soviet and Chinese leaders.
These people should confine their voting to calling into reality shows hotlines.
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It's the Despair Quotient! Carpal Tunnel
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We see this a LOT with Trump fans: They really don't care what he says, what he believes, what his platform is. He can even flip-flop completely and they shift their views to match. All they care about is the person. During the Cold War we called this The Cult of Personality, referring to the popularity of Soviet and Chinese leaders.
These people should confine their voting to calling into reality shows hotlines. This is the most dangerous form of mass hypnosis in the modern world. It builds ovens and it fills mass graves. I am bracing for Kristallnacht 2016 when Trump loses, or some smaller version of it.
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I'm armed and trained to resist the revolution.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
Sincerely, the Borg.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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During the Cold War we called this The Cult of Personality, referring to the popularity of Soviet and Chinese leaders. Trump is jealous of Kim Jong Un... Donny Jr. wishes he were him, following in his father's very dirty footsteps.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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I think there will be a tussle for the "heart and soul" of the Republican party. There are the radical conservatives, there are the rational conservatives, and there are the Trump-tea(dumb-tees). I seriously doubt that the Dems win the House this election (I think, despite the spiral of the Trump campaign, there will be a resurgence of some kind in the last of the campaign, at least for Republicans, generally). There is some hope that, in order to save the party, the rational conservatives will break ranks with the "majority" of the party and forge some deals with the Democrats on some policy positions (perhaps immigration).
If they try to use obstructionism to block all legislation, there may well be an open war against conservatism by the population and we may see a reversal of historical trends - the incumbent party gaining seats in the off-year, and maybe even retaking the chamber. There are still great swathes of conservatism in the United States, but the suburbanization is creating more and more Democratic-leaning Districts that threaten to overwhelm the gerrymandering.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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The gerrymandering has to include just enough voting Republicans in a district to make it safe for the Republican incumbent. They try to crowd all the Democrats into a smaller number of districts.
But people move. People change parties. People have kids. In the event of poor Republican turnout, many of those "safe" districts are not safe at all. Because they tried to maximize their number of districts, just 5% missing voters could turn them Democratic.
I think the Republican civil war could make for this kind of surprise next month.
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I'm armed and trained to resist the revolution. So am I. 
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
Lenny Bruce
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
Dostoevsky
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I'm armed and trained to resist the revolution. So am I. Ohm, my God!
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Probably won't need to fire a shot, though. In my experience, cowards run when they see that you are willing to fight back.
"The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them."
Lenny Bruce
"The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
Dostoevsky
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