(November 12, 2016 at 1:43 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Let me just ask, lol, at this point...is anyone else as amused as I am... at how desperate we are to find some bit of the election that's -not- down to plain and base hatred of the other™?
And here I was just reading an article in the Washington Post that is trying to pin down the reasons Clinton lost, and one of them was this:
Quote:One error was to stick with a long-standing, one-dimensional campaign strategy: attacking Donald Trump. That strategy had been devised despite overwhelming evidence, not only in Trump’s rise but also in Clinton’s struggles during the Democratic primary against Bernie Sanders, that the electorate was looking for political and economic change.
This is so bizarre because we know that political and personal attacks are effective in Presidential campaigns. For a recent example, just look to, say... 2016.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
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