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Hmmmm. I don't think a lot of Trump voters saw themselves as having bad intentions or bad values either.

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remember, for example, that Trump ran on "The Iraq war was a disaster and this society sucks for a lot of people".

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and the values of some Obama voters were good. I knew a ton of boomer liberals who were "He's black, he's black!" He was a symbol for them.

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But past that, they couldn't hear him when he said stuff like "Reagan was great, and right" or "left wing activists suck ass".

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Either that or they agreed…

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the bottom line is really that most Americans don't want someone who wants to do the right thing.

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BUT, that is changing. the youngs are far more willing. They went Bernie, big. In England they went Corbyn big.

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people mostly don't change once they're adults, except if forced into personal crisis. The olds are write off, the youngs will do it, or not

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and, at 49, I say this as a relative old. Gen-X are terrible people, just not quite as bad as boomers.

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So many people <30 or so feel like they have nothing to lose, I suspect. They don't even benefit personally from turning a blind eye.

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Tell me about it.

12:44 PM · Sep 30, 2017Twitter Web Client

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😕 I just hope a decent proportion of that disenfranchisement continues to be channelled into Good Things.