[tootie]

I agree with your sentiment, but the number is way below 99%. You can't blissfully ignore that a substantial number of people on both sides really hate each other. You can't say your PM is a jerk, but not the people because the people voted for him (or at least his party).

[md5person]

Seriously? Would you say the American people are "jerks" because Trump was voted into power? That's not how any of this works.

[majewsky]

That's a very obvious strawman. If you downsize it to the level that GP alluded to, asking if Trump's voters are jerks because they voted him into power, I guess a non-negligible amount of people would agree.

[md5person]

Have you read tootie's comment at-all?

> "You can't say your PM is a jerk, but not the people because the people voted for him (or at least his party)."

No, it's not the people. It's some people that voted Likud in. Much like some Americans voted Trump in. Where's the strawman?

[1024core]

Those "some people" must number more than 1%, right? It is almost impossible to win a non-trivial number of seats in the election if only 1% of the people support you.

30% of Americans even today support Trump. So one would be right to claim that 30% of Americans are jerks.

[conradfr]

This may be off topic for HN but what do you think the rest of the world think of Americans?

[tootie]

Absolutely, yes. You can go visit the heartland or the rust belt or whatever and people are friendly and polite and welcoming in person, but they voted for Trump so they're jerks. They support xenophobia, homophobia, torture, corruption. There's a difference between being nice and being good.