Comments on: Why Trump Won And How To Fix That For Future Elections

By: Democrats: Do these things – Greg Laden's Blog

Democrats: Do these things – Greg Laden's Blog — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 14:10:27 +0000

[…] gave some advice a while back (see: Why Trump Won And How To Fix That For Future Elections). Since then, I’ve spent a lot of time with a lot of those folks who appeared on the scene, […]

By: Ellison vs. Perez – Greg Laden's Blog

Ellison vs. Perez – Greg Laden's Blog — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 23:19:57 +0000

[…] including Perez and Ellison, said anything impressive. Ellison is closest to following my plan. Sally Boynton Brown is also close to my plan, but she seems to have been sidelined by being so […]

By: Wow

Wow — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 16:59:25 +0000

“The Washington elite simply want to rule the world, because they just do”

WRONG.

They think that what they’re doing IS THE RIGHT THING.

Why? Because they are surrounded by people who think the same thing. Because it’s good for the wealthy, with whom they work with, socialise with, are themselves, and have telling them they’re doing well.

So sociopaths and the narcissistic spout random phrases to get adulation and attention by saying what “ordinary people” think, which makes it look as though that sociopath agree with them, and that is how the sociopath or narcissist gets the power and attention they crave. This doesn’t mean that the sociopath agrees with them, mind.

By: Paul Murray

Paul Murray — Thu, 17 Nov 2016 02:55:15 +0000

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-sachs/hillary-is-the-candidate_b_9168938.html

A great many of progressives could not stomach voting for the person who turned Syria and Lybia into kill-zones. The action in Lybia doubled down by assassinating an elected head of state. So many thousands of people killed.

Particularly galling is the way that the USA played patty-cake with ISIS in Syria for a year, causing god-knows-how-much collateral suffering, and Putin put them down in a couple of days.

The Washington elite simply want to rule the world, because they just do, and they see the way to accomplish that as being military force. Clinton was even talking about low-yield nukes, for Christ’s sake.

Trump couldn’t be much worse than Clinton, and there’s a distinct possibility that he might be quite a bit better. Perhaps he’ll leave Israel alone for long enough that they can march their muslims into the gas chambers, which you know is what they really want to do.

By: Obstreperous Applesauce

Obstreperous Applesauce — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 18:35:24 +0000

Here at Sb a suggestion. Follow the money:

http://scienceblogs.com/denialism/2016/11/10/so-youve-elected-a-conspiracy-theorist/

By: Wow

Wow — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 16:49:21 +0000

Give people a reason to turn out. The UK had the problem that voting Labour was pretty much identical to voting Conservative, doubly so in the Blair years.

And, oddly enough, a very low turnout since then.

By: zebra

zebra — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 16:26:35 +0000

OA,

That wisdom tells us that winning is the best tactic/strategy.

In the US, there are structural impediments to thus shifting the paradigm, because we don’t have a true democratic system of governance.

By: Obstreperous Applesauce

Obstreperous Applesauce — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 16:15:39 +0000

Let’s be clear, I was trying to illicit responses on tactics/strategy and maybe do a little soul searching. I was NOT questioning the wisdom of what got included in DSM 5.

By: zebra

zebra — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 16:08:41 +0000

OA,

“I form my own opinions” “deserves serious, objective attention”.

The science I am talking about is serious and objective, just like climate science. But of course you and everyone else are free to ignore it.

By: Obstreperous Applesauce

Obstreperous Applesauce — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 14:54:38 +0000

Oh, I form my own opinions, and for now I’m not interested in debating so much as fishing around and taking temperatures.

This was triggered partly by the title of the post which reflects widespread concerns (and reactions) and partly by reactions to the election in broadcast media.

Why Trump won and how to fix… deserves serious, objective attention…