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Leopard Voters Got What They Wanted – Those who expect that the leopard will hurt others, and not them, are likely to be unpleasantly surprised. (www.theatlantic.com)

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No, a combination of white supremacists, self-serving billionaires, religious extremists, and useful idiots did this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

That's just an argument that democracy cant work. Because voyers are too feeble minded to discern the wheat from the chaff.

I'd give this some credence if it was a "fool me once" but that's not what this is.

If voters are gullible fools that we can be easily misled then that does explain why we're here and why it can never be anything else.

As Orwell opined in an essay in 1937, democracies always tend to fascism if times are tough. Even relatively tough, with the poorest American being better off then the poorest 50% of the planet.