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Re:The forces that drove this election’s media failure are l... by matheweis on Friday November 11, 2016 @10:24AM (#12931397)
This isn't a personal attack, but I think your choice of language shows just how pervasive that thinking was.

Very nearly half of the electorate believed in a Trump presidency enough to mark him down at the ballot box. Those people aren't "no one". Simply looking at the Trump presidency as a lack of voter turnout because people were in their own personal bubble fails to give those people and their ideas any credence.

If we are going to have a real conversation about diverse ideas in this country, it needs to include all of them, not just whatever happens to be popular at the moment. Maybe some ideas turn out to be irreconcilable, but we should at least try to understand them and recognize that they exist.

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Re:The forces that drove this election’s media failure are l... by ilolu on Friday November 11, 2016 @11:46AM (#12932236)
May be I was not clear in my language. I was talking mainly about main stream media not believing and laughing at people who even suggested that. And now the media wants to blame various reasons/people for Hillary's loss.

I too believe that people need to understand the diverse ideas leading to voters voting for their candidates. And I also hate the present media trying to shame 60 million people as racist and sexist etc for voting for Trump and not even trying to understand that people can have different priorities and reasons.

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