• Crampon@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Even the Norwegian media hyper normalized that Clinton would win. The news cycle was a circlejerk for how amazing Clinton was and how stupid hair Trump had. When push came to shove on the election day I couldn’t do anything else but laugh.

    Clinton booked this huge avenue with a major show to be out on when she won. The balloons weren’t dropped and she didn’t even show on stage. Trump had his election speech in a conference room in his hotel. It was a perfect display of the establishments arrogance and it confirmed Trump’s rambling.

    Ffs I don’t want it to happen again. Please no. But I believe the 2016 election was good for your democracy. If you sleep in a democracy you wake up in a dictatorship.

    Put Trump in jail and do some actual draining of the swamp soon.

    • Serinus@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      the 2016 election was good for your democracy.

      It was not. The damage done in those four years far outweighed any lessons learned. Hell, we were supposed to have learned with W.

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        5 months ago

        Hell, we were supposed to have learned with W.

        and this is why I have no confidence in our system. With how bad bush was, it should’ve completely destroyed the republican party then and there. Instead republicans get worse and democrats do nothing except insist that they must only be slightly better than republicans so that elections get as close to 50-50 as possible.

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      5 months ago

      Yeah, I’m in New Zealand and from here their election looked like the main thrust of most of it was about forcing Democrats to vote for the establishment warmonger Hillary instead of their best candidate Bernie Sanders.

      Trump was sort of just a meme candidate for a long time because analysts didn’t realise he’d been gifted the pre-Trump Cambridge Analytica package (drain the swamp etc) by disaster capitalists.