Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Jeremy Scahill Pulls Out Of Bill Maher's Show Over Milo" video.

  1. The masses voted for Trump. End of debate.
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  2. "This "End of debate" was just too over-the-top stupid to be resisted ^^" No, you simply failed to understand or think about it. Kyle said he has faith in the masses. The masses voted for a man who even BEFORE the election made it perfectly clear that he was a monster, yet they STILL voted for him. There really is no debate to be had about Kyle's lack of wisdom in trusting to the masses to make the right decision. The masses in Nazi Germany needed their country to be put down by the rest of Europe before they "saw sense". The masses are frequently astoundingly irrational, cowardly bullies. To suggest that one has faith in them is a fool's statement not borne out by history.
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  3. "There was a fuckload of documented voter fraud. " I don't think there was. There were thousands of duplicates in multiple counties due to people moving, but that doesn't equate to fraud. There were also thousands of people registered who are dead, which is also absolutely normal so long as these corpses are not voting. These two are a normal part of the electoral processs, and are routinely dealt with by poll clean ups. There were also ludicrous claims that undocumented immigrants were voting against Trump despite the fact that it's impossible for them to vote. There were also CLAIMS of voter machine hacking, but again not a single demonstrated case. Furthermore, the assumption that any fraud was AGAINST Trump, in spite of the only hacking being in his favour must surely give you pause? But if you are aware of actual, documented, proven significant levels of voter fraud, not the mere suggestion that duplicate registrations perpetuated by Trump and media such as Fox, and Alex Jones or the odd isolated case, I'd be most interested to see it.
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  4. My point is simply that relying on the wisdom or the integrity of the masses (masses - large percentage of the population), is not borne out by history. I could make the statement "the world is roughly spherical" and there would always be a hundred pedants who want to argue that no it's actually an oblate spheroid, and ten lunatics who want to argue that it's flat. The fact that some people want to argue EVERY point is not an indication that there is a need to do so.
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