It might not be too late to start the free edX course on voting fraud. https://www.edx.org/course/us-voting-access-fraud-davidsonx-davnowxvoting .
Cody Smith On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 10:43 AM, ┣glen┫ <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dave's screed does not take the question seriously. It (over)simply > accuses the Clinton campaign of over-simplifying. (Then it goes a step > further and hopes Clinton's oversimplifying is fatal so that the other > oversimplifier wins the election.) But we don't want to commit tu quoqe. > Just because Dave's guilty of the same thing both Clinton and Trump are > guilty of doesn't make him wrong. > > What makes Dave's screed wrong is that Trump is NOT typical, not even in > the slightest. To say that Trump is not atypical of the population in > general is a massive error. To say that Trump is not atypical even of his > supporters is only a major error. Heck, even Peter Thiel (whatever > repugnant political views he may hold) is so seriously different from > Trump, any comparison will fail. So, were Dave to extract his gist from > its surrounding wrongness, it would be a tiny bit better: Trump is not his > supporters. He is (merely) the emergent tool (naturfact) latched onto by > that demographic. > > Trump's success during this campaign reflects the populism that is gaining > ground all over the world. And it's systemic (neither all good, nor all > bad) to democratic systems. And the founding fathers knew about it. We've > discussed it some on this list cf Arrow's Theorem, etc. Ranting about > elitism throws the baby out with the bathwater. > > > On 11/07/2016 09:04 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: > > Thank God some of us are taking seriously the "But Why?" question re: > Trump's popularity. Thank you! > > > > We simply must take seriously the fact that nearly half of the US is > going to vote for Trump, and ask yourself "Why?". > > > -- > ␦glen? > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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