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Alan Swank
12/22/2016 9:45 PM
Like it or not, rp hit the nail on the head. In retrospect, had I really been listening and truly understanding what I heard the last 11 years. visiting America's school from Minnesota to Memphis to North Carolina to Maine, Trump's win would have come as no surprise. Unfortunately in all of our own insular worlds, we don't hear the chorus, just the section in which we are singing.
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Bcat2
12/22/2016 9:54 PM
Alan Swank wrote:expand_more
Like it or not, rp hit the nail on the head. In retrospect, had I really been listening and truly understanding what I heard the last 11 years. visiting America's school from Minnesota to Memphis to North Carolina to Maine, Trump's win would have come as no surprise. Unfortunately in all of our own insular worlds, we don't hear the chorus, just the section in which we are singing.


rp hit the nail on the head, Alan driving a spike with a sledge.
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Monroe Slavin
12/22/2016 10:20 PM
L.C. wrote:expand_more
...The point about Chicago alone being responsible for a big part of a one or two year uptick shows some thinking.

Now here's an interesting and novel interpretation. When a person posts his opinion about the causes for changes in an area he is familiar with it shows "some thinking", but when other posters post their opinions about other areas they are familiar with, it shows a that they just "stick to their viewpoints".

When one is rigidly inflexible in their thinking, and unwilling to consider other viewpoints, the chances of being correct are substantially reduced (regardless of whether their view is rigidly right-wing or rigidly left-wing). If reducing crime was a simple matter, we'd have eliminated it by now.
The point about Chicago alone being responsible for a lot of the recent spike in murder stats is not opinion; it's fact. (Well, trusting that the cited facts are correct). How does this venture into interpretation?

It's good thinking (my opinion) in that it digs deeper into the facts than anyone else did. While I suppose that opinion is not a fact, it seems indisputable.


Trump may well be right that he'd have won the popular vote if he'd run for that. Running to win the E-lectoral college in order to win the e-lection makes the popular vote tally not necessarily a fair barometer.

Trump is a lying, blowhard braggart, egotistical, dis-regarder of fairness and decorum. Pretty much an admitted harasser. A horrible person.

I'd blow him out for his mis-treatment of people (bankruptcy shafting, treatment of women and others whom he can harm with relative impunity).

We'll see how it goes soon.
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L.C.
12/22/2016 10:47 PM
Monroe Slavin wrote:expand_more
The point about Chicago alone being responsible for a lot of the recent spike in murder stats is not opinion; it's fact. (Well, trusting that the cited facts are correct). How does this venture into interpretation?

It's good thinking (my opinion) in that it digs deeper into the facts than anyone else did. While I suppose that opinion is not a fact, it seems indisputable. ...
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OK, if that's what you were referring to. I thought you were referring to the part of his post that blamed the local rise on a shift from older gangs to younger ones. That may well be true, and wouldn't surprise me at all, but it also wouldn't surprise me is other posters had insight on changes in their local markets.

[QUOTE=Monroe Slavin]...
Trump may well be right that he'd have won the popular vote if he'd run for that. Running to win the E-lectoral college in order to win the e-lection makes the popular vote tally not necessarily a fair barometer.

Trump is a lying, blowhard braggart, egotistical, dis-regarder of fairness and decorum. Pretty much an admitted harasser. A horrible person.

I'd blow him out for his mis-treatment of people (bankruptcy shafting, treatment of women and others whom he can harm with relative impunity).

We'll see how it goes soon.

On this part of your post I agree. Since the candidates run to win electoral votes, we'll never know how the vote would have turned out had the candidates been trying to win popular vote instead.

I share your opinion of Trump, but I don't feel that Clinton was any better. Among the 20 odd candidates that ran, it's remarkable that those were the final two as I would have voted for any of the other 18 ahead of either of them. In fact, I'd have voted for any of the presidential candidates from either party in the last 60 years either of those two. I honestly believe that if their had been a third option on the ballot, "do over", it would have won.
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Bcat2
12/26/2016 7:33 AM
31 who wrote a check to the United States of America in the amount of up to and including their lives.

http://www.icasualties.org


64 who wrote checks to their communities in the amount of up to and including their lives.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/14/us/police-officers-fatal-sh...
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