If there was a common wisdom of the common man t'Rump would never have been on the ballot.
LC On Friday, August 26, 2022 at 5:13:14 AM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 5:46 AM Lawrence Crowell <[email protected]> > 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/bf199ee5-1548-4715-b88e-9f5db75ee6bdn%40googlegroups.com.
