[andrepd]

The people consented, and benefited from, that state of affairs. In a democracy, that means the people can answer for the actions of their leaders. Although I concede reality is far from being as simple as this, to some extent at least we must hold the electorate of the US responsible for the actions of the government of the US, no?

[EvilEndures]

As an independent, I'm given two choices every election to pick from. I like neither and hold my nose as I vote for the lesser evil.

Do you feel I should be held responsible for the actions of Trump given:

A) I didn't vote for him.

B) I didn't really want to vote for Clinton, but I did.

C) I didn't have a third option with a realistic chance of winning the presidency.

D) The "lesser evil" voting strategy has been my life since I turned 18 and I can't really stand either party.

If you answered "No", you just admitted there is no true majority in the US since this is how a third of the electorate votes.

[dang]

Can you please stop using HN primarily for political battle? That's a violation of the site guidelines and the spirit of intellectual curiosity that, against the odds, we're trying to keep up here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[andrepd]

I would say we're having a respectful discussion about politics, not a "political battle".

[dang]

I believe you in this case but when an account is using HN primarily for political arguments, that breaks the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

I've written many explanations of why we do it this way, if you or anyone is interested: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

[EvilEndures]

I'll stop posting then and if there is ever any reference or link to me on HN, remove it. Thanks.

I'm happy to absolutely no contact with HN/YCombinator/related companies if they do the same. :)