MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
I remember a Hispanic girl from Texas, living in the EU, every reason to be liberal, not exactly an engaged Bernie type, but she just didn't trust Hillary, couldn't put her finger on why. And so she wasn't going to vote (and by that point, absentee ballots deadline would have been near).
Someone mentioned yesterday how Trevor Noah knew Trump would win - because he had lived in Africa and knew that these kind of lies work, and work well. We think we're educated and sophisticated - which makes us sitting ducks for flattery and primitive tricks from the hucksters and grifters. (that's also why we pay twice as much for shittier healthcare "American exceptionalism" is just code for "jack up the price, we got another sucker coming through thw door". oh, and from that WaPo article on exit polls the other day we see that the number of college educated is much lower than we profess - even on the Dem/Hillary-supporting side. Equal opportunity? Hardly.)