But you know if these low information voters who actually benefit from such things don't want them and instead want to keep voting for people who are making those of us who are already well off richer, maybe it's time we pack it in and help them out. We'll get off like bandits while they pat themselves on the back for sticking it to the elites by voting for reality TV stars.
So are we to assume that 59 Million plus folks are all "low information voters"?
That's painting with a very broad and condescending brush.
You talk of being well off and voting to help others. That's a great outlook, but certainly not indicative of how most Americans can and do vote.
There are reports that many of the middle America Trump voters are just the opposite, not well off, struggling as jobs disappear. They chose to vote for the candidate that they believe presented ideas that might bring some form of prosperity back to their regions, their industries.
Whether that ends up coming to fruition of course remains to be seen, but how so many people are faulting these folks for voting for someone they think may help better their personal situations is disheartening.
Just here on this site, folks are excoriating all Trump voters as racist and misogynist and worse. Do we really think 60 million people all fall into that basket?
His message resonated with a large group of folks who have been overlooked in recent years. Oregoropa was right about this, not many saw it coming (certainly not me), but it happened. Hillary preached "more of the same" and these folks who are struggling don't want that, so they took a shot at something different. I can't fault anyone for thinking that way.
I said all along I disliked both candidates. Now Trump has been elected. I am willing to wait and see how things go, and I would have had the same outlook with Hillary. Maybe Trump will be the unmitigated disaster some expect, maybe not.
Time to accept the result and try and move forward, stop calling each other names.