Trump, Brexit, Dueterte, Colombia's vote for peace, whatever else I'm not aware of - what gives? I've been looking around for an explanation. (if you only read one, the first one is probably the best)
Anthropologist right after Trump secured the nom
https://zeroanthropology.net/2016/05...united-states/
Guy on Quora
https://www.quora.com/Are-people-who...usty?srid=iqSO
This back and forth on a reddit sub, the post before this one read
"The (likely false) promise of jobs and a sense of economic security. All these people saying "the freedom to be racist" need to go back and fucking read that link or liberals will continue to lose horribly in important contests."
https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDr...y_the/d9t7ix6/
This commentary
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/commenta...election-2016/
And this one
https://theintercept.com/2016/11/09/...son-of-brexit/
I think they're all close to the central issue with the Dems and Hillary dropping the ball so hard. Oh and the pollsters, and the betting markets, and the statisticians, and the media, and pretty much everyone that wasn't trying to Make America Great Again.
When your bubble pops as hard as it did Tuesday night, you assess the debris, not quickly blow up another and hop in. NPR still hasn't learned its lesson. It's still trying to paint Hillary supports as righteous and Trump supporters as racist and what not. This morning they said that Trump supporters prayed in demonstrations, while Hillary supporters protested in demonstration.
It all really crystallizes a lot that I've been hearing from NPR for the past year+. I remember when they were obviously supporting Hillary during the Bernie run, doing things like introducing bernie's comment in an interview where he uh's and um's and then cutting to Hillary's pseudo-response during an upswell of soaring rhetoric during a rally. Whatever, that's all fine and good, I'd think, but I really wish they'd just all admit once in a while that they're all Hillary supporters.
Or in other instances when NPR would constantly talk about racial divides in America and then cut to Shanker Vidantham (wrong spelling) with new discoveries in social science, Shanker? "Oh yes, Steve, what we've discovered is that your prejudice against women/other races/other religions is unconscious and invisible to you always. The only thing there is for you to do is to always work to make amends for the original sins of racism and sexism and whatever else research discovers tomorrow."
It does seem like there's a sense on the left that you tow-the-line lest you become otherized and demonized. And why would you want to be otherized from the side that gets Global Warming? The side that sympathizes with those out of power? The side that cares for the world in 10 generations? The side with the open mind? Especially when the others want to drill-baby-drill, cling to their guns and bibles, and forget the world beyond the horizon?
https://youtu.be/D96LstZ2KEM
I didn't see Trump's support because I didn't look. I trusted clever media to see the world for me and bring it to me as it actually was. And they failed, so utterly and completely, that I see that I was trapped in just like those republicans with their fox news during the last two presidential elections. Sad!