13esq

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[–] 13esq 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

About one hundred million people declined to vote at all.

[–] 13esq 3 points 3 months ago

You're getting down votes because the truth hurts. People in the echo chamber don't want to hear anything except "Trump bad".

To sum up your comment succinctly it can simply be said that the democratic party failed to relate with and engage the electorate, something that Trump did successfully.

[–] 13esq 1 points 3 months ago

Oh OK. I've never watched it so that's why I didn't understand.

[–] 13esq 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
  1. 11% more women voted than men, if they all voted democrat, they would have won easily.

You could argue that a proportion of these women are brainwashed or whatever else but the simple fact of the matter is that not enough of them felt engaged with democratic policies.

[–] 13esq 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Research requires a critical mind. Think of a person you know that has average intelligence, 50% of people are more stupid than that.

And I'm not saying that stupidity is solely an issue for the republican electorate, I'm just saying "do your own research" is an unrealistic expectation.

People need to be engaged with.

[–] 13esq 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

More like the oligarchy now have 99% of the power rather than 98%.

The issue is that we believe we have a free democracy when the only power we have is to put an X in a box every few years. The system isn't broken, it's working as it's designed to.

[–] 13esq 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The rest of the world is concerned about US politics because they are essentially the world police due to the size and power of their army.

If you stopped sending bombs, warships and fighter jets around the world, stopped interfering with foreign politics and just focused on NASA, Hollywood and music we'd all love you.

[–] 13esq 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

What's the implication? Am I naïve? I just thought it was traditionally a man's hobby with little interest from women, just as most men mostly aren't very interested in crochet.

[–] 13esq 3 points 3 months ago

Ah yes, the classic scalper mobile haha

[–] 13esq 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I think that's called "lowest common denominator" politics and whilst I understand why it could seem like the natural thing to do, it's not something I'll be taking part in.

[–] 13esq 3 points 3 months ago (9 children)

I like fishing, I just think it's quite unpopular with women.

[–] 13esq 5 points 3 months ago

Sorry that we would rather have free healthcare and things like that, good luck!

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