FRED SEZ
ok. the election is seemingly over and Trump has won! How did this happen? What brought at least half of American voters to vote for “that guy.”
I have already skimmed papers, blogs, tv shows etc and the usual pundits all offer their wisdom to explain the results of this election.
Ignore them. Try to figure it out for yourself, perhaps by reading and listening to what so many have to say. But in the end we now know that the pundits are consistently off.
Examples: Prediction markets (ie betting markets) are usually right…except in this case the result was right but there is evidence that they got stacked by some anonymous folks who dumped lots of money in to try to change things. Alan Lichtman, the historian at Univ
Virginia, always right (but one time) is in this case wrong for his second time.
Nate Silver the ace pollster and data wiz bounced about like a ball in a pickleball match.
And then the polls: consistently said it was a very close race.
Was it? If not, why not? Was it the candidate’s fault, racism, men versus women, or inflation?
A confession: I do not know.
November 6, 2024 @ 1:33 pm
So far, I sense an overwhelming frustration and impatience in a search for quick solution as the driving force.
November 6, 2024 @ 8:17 pm
For the first time in my life I am ashamed for America. The Braying Jackass planted the seeds of fear and hate and then he reaped the rewards, because so many Americans felt that the importance of addressing the cost of milk and eggs superceded the importance of addressing the rising tide of racism and fascism, and the loss of personal freedoms. Today, I just feel sick.
November 6, 2024 @ 11:40 pm
What I saw was America falling victim to one of the devil’s favorite folk sayings, to wit choosing the lesser of two evils. Anyway you slice it that means that of your own free will you chose something you knew was an evil thing. Not to say the lesser evil might work the lesser harm, but if it is an evil thing it will cause ha rm, and you will share the responsibility for any harm it does cause. You did choose it after all.
How is it that America saw DT as the lesser evil? IMO because DT is such an outrageous character, so up front and in your face with such transparent bias and bigotry, such blatant self interest, as to make them confident they can intercept and contain him using the safeties the founding fathers wrote into the constitution. They see KH on the other hand as representing the slight of hand deceptions worked by professional politicians everywhere, the subtle deceptions of consequences the innocent and ignorant rarely percieve in time to mount a defense. The American rank and file feel, with a fair degree of justification going well beyond matters monetary, that their culture and society has suffered enough moral degradation to such tactics.
Or, in easier throw the blame language? Blame it on the Woke movement (blatantly supported by the Democratic political party) who, by attempting to legislate the content of America’s culture, awakened the same sleeping giant that Admiral Yamamoto was worried about, and they did indeed fill that giant with a terrible resolve.
November 7, 2024 @ 1:56 pm
What brought at least half of American voters to vote for “that guy.”
Actually more than half voted for him — 52%
Everyone calls him a racist, but blacks, latinos, jews and even muslims were backing him.