Re:YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation
by umvi on Thursday October 15, 2020 @10:15AM
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> Our fellow citizens elected a reality TV star as president of a country with nuclear weapons.
But not the majority of our fellow citizens (by popular vote).
Though you could argue that a large % of democratic voter base (voters looking for handouts) is also uneducated.
Re:YouTube bans coronavirus vaccine misinformation
by shadowgovt on Thursday October 15, 2020 @10:18AM
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The size of the electing body is a little irrelevant. People trusted the system to disallow someone as unqualified as Trump, and it does not. Disillusion with that system runs high.
If anything, it probably runs higher than it would have if he had been elected by a majority. People feel let down not only by their fellow citizens, but by the laws that govern who is president.
People are passing judgment for, I think, fully rational reasons.
The Atlantic has had several good articles on how fundamental societal trust is dissociating in America. The election of Trump isn't the only aspect of it, but it did scare about half the country into thinking the other half isn't rational in the same way they are. And the feeling is mutual.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/collapsing...