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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Keith Henson <hkeithhenson@gmail.com> <br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Trump suggests letting Iran ‘take out’ Los Angeles and San Diego<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…" <span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>why they find him so mesmerizing, and to this day I've never been able to receive a coherent answer.</span></b></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'> </span></b>"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>…The reason is rooted in evolutionary psychology and the genetic selection of humans over at least 100,000 years…human groups… when they think they are facing a bleak future, this turns on psychological mechanisms that, among other things, increase the circulation of xenophobic memes…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So true. However… In 2016, 2020 and 2024, the USA was at peace and the economy was prosperous. In all three election years, the incumbent party was turned out. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If the current POTUS mesmerized anyone, we can’t explain 2020, because the guy who won that contest clearly didn’t mesmerize anyone. If we call on bleak future wartime memes, we can’t explain 2024.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The electoral college notion doesn’t explain the 2024 result because the winner in that won the plurality vote by a comfortable margin. Even if we had ranked choice voting, he still would have won. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am a dedicated third party observer, and I still have not heard a coherent plausible explanation of the 2024 result. Anyone? Anyone? Buuuuellerrrrrr….<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></blockquote></div></body></html>