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Re:Inside a Failed Silicon Valley Attempt to Reinvent Politics by akhilcacharya on Thursday September 20, 2018 @03:43PM (#18034963)
Those phrases have been used for decades. In the intervening years a Democrat has won the popular vote 6 times and the electoral vote 4 times.
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Re:Inside a Failed Silicon Valley Attempt to Reinvent Politics by gaius on Friday September 21, 2018 @03:56AM (#18037968)
Coastal disdain for the middle has long been a thing yes. I suppose the modern difference is that when manufacturing was still onshore, no one cared what the coastal elites thought.
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Re:Inside a Failed Silicon Valley Attempt to Reinvent Politics by akhilcacharya on Friday September 21, 2018 @11:46AM (#18040544)
Manufacturing has been going offshore since the ‘80s. Springsteen wrote albums about it! This isn’t a new phenomenon at all.
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