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by war1025 2485 days ago
Didn't see this Michael Moore video [1] until after the election, but it pretty well describes why I voted for him. I'm doing pretty well, but I have a blue collar background, and the people I grew up around weren't.

Didn't really figure he'd win, but my dad had died earlier in the year, and I figured he would have voted Trump, so I did it for him.

Wasn't really a "burn it to the ground" thing in a literal sense. Basically what the end of the video clip says: "It's going to be a big Fuck You to the establishment. And it will feel good."

And it did.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxDRqeuLNag

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And did the spirit behind that gesture last? He then went and teamed up with the same Republican politicians he pledged to be different from, and gave the establishment a big tax cut.
People can say what they want about the tax cut, but personally I got roughly $5000 out of the deal.
Back in the day, the Yippies nominated a pig (Pigasus) for President.