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People need to stop pretending that 'the people choice' about everything when they got to vote once. Even that one vote was basically sounded with lots of pre-voting and all sorts of other things.

If you look into the actual political economy of the situation it is quite clear that 'the will of the people' has little to do with the outcome of the political process. That is just a reality.

The fundamental problem is not the alt-right on twitter but the american political system with its layers of Byzantine rules and insane bureaucracies.



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