How did we democratically elect this lunatic despot?
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Which in turn happened because the Democratic primary system makes it too easy for powerful insiders to get the nomination.
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The qualities that get you nominated are not those that win general elections. Dangerous situation.
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our two party system has become too polarized. Moderate voices on both sides are marginalized by the far left and far right.
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What a lame oversimplification.
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Can you name a presidential election in which the lame oversimplification "the most charismatic candidate wins" has been false?
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This one. Hillary was charismatic enough to get +3M votes. Minus Russia/Comey & you would be talking about how charismatic she is.
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What was the last election before this?
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for someone with your intellect, you should know better-FBI&Putin interference caused it, but keep delegitimizing Hillary instead
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The difference in charisma was the *reason* people cared about her mail server, yet gave Trump a pass on sexual assault.
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you're confusing charisma with misogyny.. or are you mansplaining?
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a better question: how many of our previous presidents (picked in smoke filled rooms) were uncharismatic?
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Zero of the winners since 1968 were the less charismatic candidate. http://paulgraham.com/charisma.html
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maybe explains why more VPs don't get the job. The running mate is usually credentialed and "safe".
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Hillary was a candidate in the tradition of Mondale and Gore.
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the other anomaly worth noting is the fact that the Democrats nominated the most female candidate of all time.
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if we are picking over simplifications, I'll take gender over charisma
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