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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > Did Trump win because many people in middle America feel like losers?
 
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Shbobdb
Dec 16, 2010

by Reene
Hillary ran a perfect campaign and it is because she was too perfect that we don't have President Hillary. Any analysis is futile. That is the conclusion. No other conclusions exist nor are they acceptable unless you can prove to me that they are relevant using appropriate sabermetrics.

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Shbobdb
Dec 16, 2010

by Reene

BarbarianElephant posted:

She wasn't great. But Trump was actively terrible at it. He came over as a deranged maniac with a plan to drag the USA into WW3 while shovelling money into his own pockets and destroying the economy.

Let's imagine you are unemployed. Two employers offer you a job. One of them grudgingly offers you a $40k a year doing boring office work with mediocre healthcare benefits where all your peers are making $160K with great benefits. The second is probably a scam but on paper it's offering you $80K with solid benefits and all your co-workers will be making $80K or less. Which job do you take? The first one is degrading but a) it's real and b) it's not bad. The second one is more of a gamble (since it might not actually be real) but it also offers dignity. Do you gamble on dignity or do you bite the bullet and resign yourself to being an also-ran?

FTFY

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Shbobdb
Dec 16, 2010

by Reene

BarbarianElephant posted:

Yeah, lots of idiots have ruined their lives and bankrupted themselves in MLM scams.

This is true. People will make bad decisions if they feel it will give them autonomy and/or dignity. Trump ran on promising that. Hillary offered table scraps.

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Shbobdb
Dec 16, 2010

by Reene

BarbarianElephant posted:

Isn't someone who spends all their money on MLMs and loses their house, when they could have made more money just working at a $40k job for 10 years, a bit of a dummy? There's no dignity when the repo man puts your stuff on the lawn. There's no dignity in being taken for a sucker at a scam job.

So what?

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