<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 1:42 PM, Dave Sill </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com" target="_blank">sparge@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>Trump's celebrity certainly helped him, </div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">​<font size="4">A vast understatement, there is no way Trump would be president today without that goddamn TV show "The apprentice".  ​</font></div></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>but I don't think the vast majority of Trump voters said to themselves, "Well, this should be entertaining..."</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">​I think the mob that was screaming "<b>LOCK HER UP!</b>" at Trump's ​Nuremberg rallies were having even more fun then they had when they were watching "The apprentice".</font></div></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>Reason/entertainment is a false dichotomy: just because it wasn't reason doesn't mean it was entertainment value.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">​I think they figure Trump did a good job as the MC on a entertainment show and they used induction to conclude that he ​would do a good job as Commander in </span><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​Chief </div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> too. </span></font><br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>It could have emotion/fear/frustration/etc that led them to vote for Trump.<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">​I grant you that a creature ​like Trump could never be president if millions of people were not scared and frustrated by the enormous wealth gap. They were so scared they lost their reason and couldn't see the obvious fact that Trump would only make that gap even larger. This isn't going to end well.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>