[golemotron]

> Trump is a symptom of something that was already there probably decades in the making. If we ignore the conditions which created Trump, if we only pay attention to what is in our own Facebook feed we'll end up with another Trump, and another. Every time assuming it was random or an act of God or Russians or whatever.

Yes, Jeff's post is notes from the filter bubble. Someone I know on Facebook was posting proudly after the election about how his son was spending the weekend reading The Atlantic and other mags to understand the Trump voter.

I said no, you get in a car and drive to a red state and talk to people. Mediated communication is not serving us.

[rdtsc]

Exactly a short time with people from the Rust Belt would be very informative. Stuff I get from my friends and family on the coasts makes it sound like all those other who voted for Trump do is wake up and first thing start thinking how they can hurt minorities that day better. That points to a lack of analysis and understanding of what happened and it will just result in Trump being re-ellected.