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Re:A Threat to U.S. Democracy: Political Dysfunction by sdenton4 on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @11:33AM (#13319640)
Business wants stability, and generally cares more about policy than Joe average voter.

Clinton was a candidate with a long track record, Trump is essentially unpredictable. The billionaire vote in this election isn't particularly surprising, or indicative that they form a Sekrit Global Cabal.

Indeed, it's more worthwhile to consider prior times that sort of anti cabal rhetoric has been deployed.

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Re:A Threat to U.S. Democracy: Political Dysfunction by HillaryBriss on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @09:01PM (#13324078)
Um, yeah. I have no info about a secret global cabal of billionaires (whatever you meant by that).

Anyway, what's surprising is not that the majority of the wealthiest billionaires supported Clinton. What's surprising is that the majority of the wealthiest billionaires supported a candidate who went on to lose the election.

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