[ExI] GOV _ TRUMP

[BillK]

On 1 March 2017 at 18:42, Dave Sill  wrote:
> Yes, we are in strong disagreement. Trump's celebrity certainly helped him,
> but I don't think the vast majority of Trump voters said to themselves,
> "Well, this should be entertaining..." Reason/entertainment is a false
> dichotomy: just because it wasn't reason doesn't mean it was entertainment
> value. It could have emotion/fear/frustration/etc that led them to vote for
> Trump.
>
> Yeah, but, sadly, Trump voters weren't largely poor or even largely
> uneducated. Any anyone who thinks Trump is going to soak the rich or do
> anything to redistribute wealth to the poor is delusional.
>
> Yes, like I said, he's tapped into a large pool of frustrated and angry
> people by echoing their concerns and saying he'll fix them.
>


Viewed from the outside (in the UK) I mostly agree with Dave.
The USA seems to be split in half, roughly between the East/West
coastal cities and the rest of the country in between. Each half just
cannot understand how the other half thinks. It is as though they are
two different worlds.

BillK