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1718627440yesterday at 7:35 PM1 replyview on HN

Electing people for the things they hate is ignorance for politics as a serious field.


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raw_anon_1111yesterday at 7:48 PM

Again you call it ignorance instead of malevolence.

How is electing Trump any different than George Wallace having a slogan of “Segregation Now! Segregation Tomorrow! Segregation Forever!”?

There was no ignorance. Everyone knows that the government has a “monopoly on [legalized] violence”. If they can elect people who will turn that violence against people they don’t like, they are doing it with full knowledge.

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