nixluva wrote:gunsnewing wrote:Something just dawned on me. Assuming Trump is everything the far left criticizes him of being, did Russia also influence the sweeping of the entire republican ticket(Senate and House & gubernatorial? Was it Russia or disenchanted Americans?
what does Russian intervention have to do with Trump's character and policies? You're conflating two unrelated things. The people who vote for local representatives have nothing to do with whether the Russians helped Trump. Those who opposed Trump didn't do that because of Russian hacking!
This country is divided. Urban America vs Rural America in many ways. Progressive vs Conservative. The demographics are leaning towards Urban/Progressive America which you see in the Popular vote. A LOT of Trump Voters did so against their own best interests!!!
No one is entitled to decide what are peoples best interest for them.
Isn't this the essence of democracy?
Let people make the wrong decisions, experience the consequences, and then make the right ones.
People are not capable of learning on other people mistakes. Only on their own. And even this is not mastered by everyone.
Most of the people incapable to see what is good for them, how you can even imagine you know what is good for others?
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Hamlet