On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 5:46 AM Lawrence Crowell < goldenfieldquaterni...@gmail.com> wrote:
*> There is no such thing as "common wisdom" of the average man. If there > were Don-the-Con t'Rump would not have been elected. The average person is > pretty ignorant and half of them are just unintelligent.* > In defense of the average person I'd have to say that in 2016 the average person didn't want Donald Trump to be president, the average person wanted Hillary Clinton to be president, but unfortunately thanks to our screwy political system average people don't get to vote for the president, only the 538 elite members of the electoral college do. Average people rejected Trump again in 2020 by a 7 million vote margin and fortunately this time the electoral college rejected him too despite Trump's frantic attempts to rig it in his favor; but if Trump had gotten just a few thousand more votes in just a few states he would've won the presidency yet again. And that would've been the last real presidential election in American history, after that we'd just get the sort of "election" they have in North Korea where the Dear Leader gets 99.99% of the vote. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> lpl -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1eDVsv3NUXbf9CuR_fCw-yO%3Dm3JR3efr6k-hnanCbJnA%40mail.gmail.com.