That their idea of “unelectable” is waaay off kilter is not even possible for them to read, let alone contemplate (even if they get to reject it later, the thought CANNOT enter their minds, it is antithetical to their entire worldview, they’re as blind to it as they are to hard X-rays), therefore their pushing of even more of the same into places to decide the next candidate.

They blame Russia *entirely*, as if the problem wasn’t their idea of “unelectable”, but that someone “got to the votes”. They blame Obama for not doing enough, though they never asked him to do anything, they were SO SURE of being right.

So obsessed are they with finding out what Russia did,they don’t even notice that they’re missing the huge elephant in the room: Trump was SUCH A TERRIBLE CANDIDATE that it shouldn’t even have been a contest. The difference between a sane candidate (and Hilary IS sane, even if she’s actually a conservative running under the Democrat banner) and Trump is so HUGE that no amount of ballot-stuffing or gerymandering or fiddling with the digital records or leaked info (even if blown entirely out of proportion) could have done anything other than narrow the gap to “solid win for the Democrats”.

But their idea of what is electable is not one the voters see as electable. But everyone in Washington Political Circles thinks the same thing: Hilary or Jeb were ELECTABLE. *Everyone*, left and right in that Washington bubble. And since 100% of the people there “know” that Hilary or Jeb were electable, even if neither side saw that in the other candidate, that they cannot think anything other than Russia must be to blame. Media must be to blame. Not being “moderate” (read:conservative) enough was to blame for the Democrats losing.

No idea that maybe Hilary or Jeb were the unelectables. Even when given absolute proof they were unelectable.

Myself, I blame the supremacy of “Austrian Economics” and economic experts in general. It’s the only “scientific” branch that comes up with a model of how the economy SHOULD work under the axioms of Mainstream Economic theory, implements the laws to make it better, then ignore the evidence showing things got worse, and assume it wasn’t the model that was wrong,but some “external” factor, or poor implementation of the rules that the model suggested, that was at fault.

And 90% of politics in the USA (and the majority of politics in the rest of the world, mostly) is run by economics theory. It’s no wonder they apply the same epistemology in politics as they see applied by economists they listen to.

When governments drop regulations to make the market freer and make new jobs by “freeing the job creators”, when jobs leave, it must be due to too much government interference,so they drop MORE regulations.

And repeat eternally.

He appointed old friends and allies to the cabinet. He will probably help states that he won more directly and more frequently than the others. And while no government would allow it, I wouldn’t be surprised if he claimed at some point he would follow through on threats to take legal action against news organizations that spoke against his campaign or hell even private individuals who publicly expressed disapproval.

When the media continually bombards the USA population with propaganda, for generations, they will have no choice but to believe in certain things without question.

Here’s a few for you, see if you can answer them.

Is Islam worse, better, or the same, as Christianity for violence?

Is the USA the world leader?

Is communism unworkable?

Is a constitutional right to the freedom of speech ESSENTIAL to a free and open democracy?

Is the freedom of speech in the USA held in no, a few, or many other countries?

Is the USA the freest, among the top 10 freest, or outside the top 10 freest countries in the world?

NOTE: I’ve picked ones that, as an outsider to the USA, seem to be fairly bipartisan accepted beliefs in the USA.

The only difference between you and the republican voters, LL, is whether you think corporations are job creators,whether tax cuts to the rich are good for the economy, whether the democrats are the tax and spend party,whether the crushing poverty they feel is Obama’s fault or not.

But on several “self evident truths”, you are just as blinkered and brainwashed as they.

And NEITHER OF YOU can be blamed for the results of that brainwashing as some sort of vile immorality.

You’ll have much more luck teaching a pig to sing. And the pig will be less annoyed.