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by ProAm 3447 days ago
Popular vote has never meant anything in America in all it's existence. But the point is a person with zero political experience, completely outside the political echo chamber/insiders club just won the most powerful office on earth. Whether you are for him or against him I believe it does show that people can absolutely start a change.
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anigbrowl 3447 days ago
Yes, people can...in the aggregate. But aggregating people takes a lot of work. So unless you devote yourself to the task of saving social security (by mobilizing lots of people to fight with you) then you're not going to have much influence. The ~50 million Trump voters, how much influence do they have with him right now? fuck all. I don't mean that as a comment on him, just pointing out the huge asymmetrical power differentials. Voting does make a tiny difference, but that's like saying you can steer a boat by getting the passengers to rush to one side of the deck or the other. It's technically true but nobody actually steers a boat that way.
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serge2k 3447 days ago
He's a billionaire and a TV star. Are you a billionaire and a TV star? No? Then you are not comparable to Trump.

He's not an outsider. He's absolutely a member of the elite.

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ProAm 3447 days ago
He's not a politician. The last one not a politician was Dwight Eisenhower, and the list is real sparse before him. [1]

But I never said I was compared to Trump, I was stating that common people absolutely made a significant impact to this election against the wishes of the incumbents

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_the_Unit...

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