How Oprah Winfrey Helped Create Our Irrational, Pseudoscientific Fantasyland

Re:How Oprah Winfrey Helped Create Our Irrational, Pseudosci... by scrollaway on Friday January 12, 2018 @01:56AM (#16130937)

I agree with your post, but:

> The American political system for all its faults, is pretty good

It just isn't. The American political system is one of the core reasons why the country is so divided. Why Trump got elected at all, despite being supported by the minority. Why people are now talking about Oprah running.

The American political system was broken before Trump. The current president is one of the gross symptoms of a much more insidious disease; one of the roots of that disease is in fact, that political system.

Of course, it's not some tv star that'll fix it when it benefits them. In fact, statistically it's unlikely you'll find a president (who got elected, ergo benefited from the system) who will change that.

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Re:How Oprah Winfrey Helped Create Our Irrational, Pseudosci... by refurb on Friday January 12, 2018 @04:12AM (#16131524)

I would argue the country would be divide regardless of the political system.

And having lived outside the US, other countries are easily as polarized although maybe in a less adversarial way.

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Re:How Oprah Winfrey Helped Create Our Irrational, Pseudosci... by amazingman on Saturday January 13, 2018 @02:10AM (#16138603)

If we had a remotely reasonable voting system—i.e. if we got rid of first last the post—the divide wouldn’t be as dramatic and we wouldn’t have everyone’s crazy racist uncle as president.

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