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invetedlotus123 said:
Zkuq said:

Yeah, apparently the left managed to choose a horrible candidate.

Yeah, that's the populist strategy: propose easy solutions to difficult and complex problems. Unfortunately in a lot of cases, a bad solution is probably more of an anti-solution instead. Perhaps Trump's solutions end up working, but personally I'm not too hopeful about that.

His idea of nationalizing manufacturing is really bad. It can turn out to be a shoot in the foot. But that`s the thing. People don`t want to hear a complex economical study about what should be done. People want a easy way out, and if people see a) illegal immigrants getting job positions that could be theirs and b) the factories they used to work at going abroad, and now they are unemployed they will think the solution is a) get rid of illegal immigrants and b) bring factories back. I know it`s not like that, but we need to try to see things with the perspective of who believed this was going to be a solution. 

And again, the left ( i know it`s really complicated to say democratic party is left, but in an USAn reality let`s say they are) just neglected those people and refused to hear their side of the story. Even if they racist, homophobic, and etc stuff, I think trying to argue and educate is much more productive then saying SHUT  UP! like SJW do all the time when someone say something minimally outside what they think is right. 

If Hillary had a tangible and easy to understand solution for economical problems she could have won.

It's a nasty situation. You lose if you tell the truth, and you win if you tell what people want to hear. Have fun trying to both win and solve problems. Democracy sucks but I don't think I've heard of a better alternative either.