Trump's New Years Message

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bunchanumbers said:

aLkaLiNE said:
Honestly if I had won the election against all odds and against actual professionals then I'd probably throw shade here and there too 😂 Shows how much faith we have in our government to elect an outsider such as himself.

He wasn't elected. He was chosen by the electoral college. He lost the actual vote.

hate to break it to you, but in the US the ELECToral college is what elects our President. Each state holds an election to determine who they well send to place votes to elect a president. It is done this way because we are a republic, you know made of 50 states, DC and a few territories who don't get representation. The states are weighted based on population how many votes they get to cast for the President. This a good system IMO. It prevents a state that has become exeteme in their political views as a whole from having a disproportate effect on the other states. This works both ways and has in the past. It is only in the past few decades that the urban centers have polarized from well everywhere else. So places like Cali which also has the largest population cast a vast majority of their votes one direction.

Things tend to normalize, either the rest of the country will move more in line with where Cali and NY are, or Cali and NY will moderate so that their large population centers don't have a disproportionate effect on the rest of the country. You know like the places where cattle are raised or crops are grown that feed these larger population centers whose industries are built on finance or services that the rest of the country cosumes. 

Personally I think Trump will have a moderating effect. He is a pro LGBT Republican president, so it will be hard now for a anti-LGBT Republican to gain a following at the national level. He is a pro entitlements. Another thing he will moderate the republicans, I already see signs that prominate democrats are moving to a more moderate position with things like gun control or immigration which was a major part of the rise of Bernie and one of their rising stars Tulsi Gabbart also holds moderate positions. 

Trump is very moderate on most issues, which I know is hard to believe if you got caught up in the media hysteria during the election.