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On 11/9/2024 1:06 AM, Bill Sloman wrote:

>>> Love him or hate him, you have to give marketing props to Trump.  He
>>> successfully made the entire election about ->him<- and nothing else.
>>
>> You're talking about Democrats, though. I'm talking about the kind of
>> candidate who could have won over the floating/undecided voters in the
>> swing states.
> 
> Most of whom weren't well educated, and were susceptible to Trump's lies.
> 
> A Democrat candidate who could have out-lied him is conceivable, but no 
> name springs to mind. Trump has been lying on a industrial scale for 
> most of his career and has a string of bankruptcies to show for it.
> 
> The take-away message is that America needs to clean up it's secondary 
> education system, but it is unique in that it's primary and secondary 
> education system is run and paid for by tiny school districts.
> 
> The US constitution was written before universal education was 
> economically feasible - it took Turnip Townsend's agricultural 
> revolution to make it possible - and education isn't a responsibility of 
> the nation or the individual states.
> 

Trump managed to attract a significant fraction of the Jewish-American, 
Muslim-American, _and_ neo-Nazi/white supremacist vote simultaneously, a 
rather remarkable feat in its way. Maybe he should get a Nobel peace 
prize, lol..