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by vkou 3036 days ago
If you're concerned with draining the swamp, Trump is the last individual you should be endorsing.
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The choice was between him and Clinton. She sure as hell would not be a better choice.
Now we all need to look at the design problem here. We have a choice architecture implying there are only two possibilities. Both of which don't represent the people.

The sooner we realize this, the sooner we can develop empathy for the other 50% of people. They're not so different from you. They don't feel represented properly either. But by virtue of the team 1 vs team 2 dynamic they still identify strongly with their candidate. We as a whole need to stop denigrating the other 50%; The idiots, the people that want to ruin your country. We need to see that they have the same wants and needs, and slightly different preferences, and just want to live a good life. We need to stop dividing. That's the game they want us to play. We shall not play it.

> She sure as hell would not be a better choice.

That's not at all clear. His appointments were full of people with horrifying conflicts of interest, to the point that his own party didn't support some of them.