Was the American experiment really that much of a failure for Americans to have "elected" Trump?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

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I'm old school. I was taught to believe the rule of law, pluralism, majority rule/minority rights, and the sanctity of the ballot were bedrock values worth defending. Then a malignant clown comes along who doesn't know of these values and couldn't care less about them is elected president.

It's depressing how many people have surrendered their rights because democracy is hard.

[Turbineguy]

1. Well, there was what happened

in the land of Beethoven, Goethe and Kant.

What the Founders did was correct. But as you say, democracy is hard. Sometimes.

[Snake Plissken]

2. This is no different than our failure in Afghanistan and Iraq, we were unprepared to deal with ...

Advancements in technology

In Afghanistan and Iraq our arrogance and short sightedness failed to see that the billions we spend in military hardware is pretty much ineffective against insurgents with $10 remote activated explosives triggered by cell phones.

With Trump our arrogance and short sightedness failed to see that coordinated trolls from outside the country could poison entire segments of the population with lies and propaganda in order to get a pile of shit like Trump elected.

[duforsure]

3. I don't believe Americans did elect him,

Putin did.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. What if "we" re-elect" him?

[Initech]

5. It's only hard because Reagan gutted our educational system.

Creating entire generations of people who don't read or think for themselves. They'd rather have critical news and information read and interpreted to them. Then wash, rinse and repeat for 40 years and that's how we get a populace who's stupid enough to elect someone like Trump.

[gibraltar72]

6. We took certain things for granted. That was a mistake.

[Farmer-Rick]

7. Traitor Trump is capitalism killing democracy

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Where are our American oligarchs? Why are all those filthy rich capitalist, like the Google billionaires, allowing the US to be represented by a f*cking idiot orange wannabe mobster?

And the answer is......they don't want democracy. They are fine with the little man in Russia ruling the US. They are amassing our national wealth for themselves and that is all they care about. This is the terminal stage of capitalism that Marx predicted.

It's ironic that the final death blow to democracy in the US comes from capitalists in Russia.