Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Trump vs Harris. U.S. Democracy Crisis?" video.

  1. Except his “silent majority” wasn’t as big as he proclaimed, and have since shrank further into the Loudmouthed Minority of churchgoing traditionalists.
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  2. Spoiler alert: Epic Rap Battles of History agrees
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  3. 3:28 High inequality makes more extreme strongman solutions attractive. You don’t see popular anti-government demonstrations in Japan or Finland, while it’s a regular occurence in Argentina and Indonesia. America has seen this before during the Gilded Age, where pro-communist sentiments were only tempered by yielding to the compromise of collective bargaining. Check out what happened before labor unions were legalized — hint: it involved bombs and machine guns.
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  4. Winner-take-all voting means results naturally converge on two choices: the one victor, and the lot of all losers. As long as this remains our method of voting, you can only try to actually win or give up entirely.
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  5. Elite Signaling is sadly a very powerful psychological phenomenon.
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  6. Whose democracy? The one for the Bible-thumping traditionalist minority?
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  7. Walls are way better at trapping people in that keeping others out.
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  8. Ironically evangelicals purposefully overlook and forgive Trump's un-Christian-like acts, because he's catering to the greater political objectives of Christian nationalism. This is sadly the "change" these anti-progressive traditionalists want America to institute.
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