Trump won because people are dumb.
The Democratic establishment chose the most corrupt figure head, and Trump is a living meme of the degraded trollish society that encompasses most of the internet.
Who would vote for someone who gets a fundamentalist christian as a VP in 2016 and calls themselves intelligent let alone a secular alt-right or what ever? He's also anti-climate change.
I'm sorry but no matter how scuzzy or bitchy Shillary was, there was no way I was going to vote, or give a vote to that clown.
^this. We should gather up all of his supporters for a firing squad. Seriously. They are uneducated and less than human. Half of America has proven that it doesn't deserve the right to democracy.
He's a glaring inheritance scum. He inherited his wealth and assets from daddy and has never made a monumental venture outside of that. Trump winery is a joke, that's like me doing computer repair and odd jobs while my main job is a programmer or professor... It ain't that much.
His children might as well be something out of rich children of the corn. Disconnected from reality, equal to the Clintons daughter. They don't understand anything, but Trumps worst because just look at them. His life is a circus, and he played you all. He's dumb but he's not dumb, he learned how to outcompete Clinton without spending as much and learned how to grab quite a bit of America while literally saying not much of anything.
You should broaden your circle. It is quite funny watching the melt down of people on hn and reddit because they don't actually know what half the country is like.
Trump won both because in todays world whoever screams louder wins, and because of lack of competition.
The real shame isn't his victory, but the fact that a 300 million people country could not produce better candidates on both sides.
Don't take it as offensive, in my country too the same happens at every election: politicians speak to people bellies, not their brains because today voters have pretty much stopped using their brains and follow whoever pushes the right buttons during speeches (god, family, safety, immigration, jobs, etc).
Trump won because people are easy to fool. They think the industrial jobs of old are going to come back. I have to wonder if they know that the majority of those jobs even in China are rapidly being automated away. I feel for those folks in the Rust Belt because many people in Wichita, Kansas had the same sort of outsourcing hit them across all sectors (aircraft, call centers, etc). But the fact is those jobs will never ever come back. Call centers are being outmoded by online help sites. Manufacturing is being taken over by better machines producing 100 times the output of worker on their best day. This is the new normal and that means we need to consider our options but going back to 1950s industrial nostalgia isn't one of them. It's time for the Trump voters to wake up and not be fooled by the dream Trump promises but will never be able to deliver.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 42.6 ms ] threadWho would vote for someone who gets a fundamentalist christian as a VP in 2016 and calls themselves intelligent let alone a secular alt-right or what ever? He's also anti-climate change. I'm sorry but no matter how scuzzy or bitchy Shillary was, there was no way I was going to vote, or give a vote to that clown.
Trump won because most people are DUMB AS FUCK.
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Don't take it as offensive, in my country too the same happens at every election: politicians speak to people bellies, not their brains because today voters have pretty much stopped using their brains and follow whoever pushes the right buttons during speeches (god, family, safety, immigration, jobs, etc).