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December 11, 2016
Hi Julia:
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!
I reread my blog post on the Blame Game and I see what you mean by the last paragraph. That sort of popped into my head at the last minute so I wrote it. I should have explained it better.
What I meant to say was that the people I feel are responsible for Trump's election are not Trump supporters, but rather those people who were opposed to Trump but did not act to prevent him from getting elected. Even if Hilary was not the ideal candidate, refusing to vote (or voting for a 3rd party candidate instead of Hilary) is what gave Trump the election. In Wisconsin, he won by about 25,000 votes. That's because many of the Obama supporters from 2012 did not show up on election day—the enthusiasm gap that I referred to. And yes, it was a rigged election than made Hilary the Democratic nominee. However, in spite of that, I feel that progressiveness should have bit the bullet and turned out to vote for the lesser of two evils.
Have you been watching the people Trump is choosing for his cabinet? Billionaires who want to cut taxes for the rich. Talk about putting the fox in charge of the hen house. The primary reason most Americans are doing so poorly financially is because this country's wealth has been increasingly concentrated in the hands of the wealthy over the last 30 or 40 years.
George Bush cut taxes for the rich in 2001, and all we got were massive deficits. Trump's tax cuts on top of Bush's cuts will make it worse for everybody but the wealthy. How many Trump supporters will admit that they made a mistake and vote Democratic in 4 years? Very few, I suspect.
Thanks for reading my blog. I hope to hear from you again.
Harlan
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