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by freeflight 1920 days ago
How do you even define the "average American" and in what context?

Are these people average Americans? [0]

No offense, but this sounds a lot like the argument how Trump supporters are allegedly just a "loud minority", a claim that's factually disproved not just by results from the public votes of two presidential elections, but the fact that he won one of them and only barely lost the other one.

Where does the "average American" fall in that context? Is there even an "average" when the only two valid political choices have become distilled down to a superficial "We are not the other party" forcing everybody to pick between two allegedly completely opposing sides?

[0] https://youtu.be/KHJlZyFxp88