Path: csiph.com!news.fcku.it!peer03.fr7!futter-mich.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: OT: "Every American"... Date: 8 Feb 2017 00:17:41 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 57 Message-ID: References: <070220171821337023%timstreater@greenbee.net> X-Trace: individual.net GuXoiK9oa6dm7XmGLf/zfw8QrJPec9z+t4BCmh2VRCD+JMqaHs Cancel-Lock: sha1:J0D3FZpr7ng3tOrFH5eQ1pXKv94= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) X-Received-Bytes: 3095 X-Received-Body-CRC: 531525031 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:99795 On 2017-02-08, Tim McNamara wrote: > On Tue, 7 Feb 2017 12:33:18 -0600, Lloyd Parsons > wrote: >> On 2017-02-07 18:21:33 +0000, Tim Streater said: >> >>> In article , Jolly Roger >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 2017-02-07, FPP wrote: >>>>> On 2017-02-05 11:51:21 -0500, Jolly Roger >>>>> said: >>>>> >>>>>> On 2017-02-05, Lloyd Parsons wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The party of the people, Democarts, ignored all people not in big >>>>>>> cities and have been taking positions well to the left of people >>>>>>> not in those cities for a lot of years. IOW, they have been out >>>>>>> of touch with what used to be their base. >>>>>> >>>>>> For very many Americans, *neither* party represents their needs >>>>>> sufficiently. >>>>> >>>>> Sure... but one of those parties sure as hell is actively working >>>>> to make the average American get by with a whole lot less. >>>> >>>> Members of *both* parties are responsible for where we are today. >>>> And until American citizens wake up to that fact and elect >>>> politicians who represent citizens rather than one of the two >>>> established parties, nothing will change significantly. >>> >>> They did wake up to it and elected Trump. >> >> the majority didn't. They voted for Clinton. >> >> In an election that was most notable by having the two worst >> candidates in modern history, many made the choice to the unknown. Or >> maybe it was thought that a delusional nutjob was just what we needed. > > I disagree that both candidates were terrible. Clinton is not > especially good at schmoozy populist campaigning, but I think her high > negatives were mainly the result of a tireless coordinated smear > campaign Oh please. Clinton didn't lose the vote due some nefarious "smear campaign". Clinton's contradictory voting record, ties to special interests, and her own contradictory statements are viewed negatively by *many* Americans. And Trump is a man-child who is obviously unqualified for the position. Both were terrible candidates. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR