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Just less than 25 years ago, the American political scientist Francis Fukuyama wrote a seminal work entitled 'The End of History and the Last Man'. It was written after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and basically claimed that liberal democracy had won the ideological struggle and was now the de facto, widely-accepted political philosophy. There could be no progression from liberal democracy. This wasn't to say that the USA had won the struggle or that its system was the only correct one. Fukuyama ironically saw organisations like the EU as the more appropriate model, with its desire to replace nationalist politics with trans-national consensus and decision making.

In one sense he was right, as people want economic freedom and some control over their lives and the institutions that govern those lives. But as Brexit and the election of Trump have shown, liberal democracy can go too far for many people.
 
somethingelse said:
Interesting fact,in terms of surface area sq miles,over 50 % of the USA was won by Republicans in the category "landslide vote"
That's, almost no democratic vote worth noting
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Not really that interesting considering 90% of the population live in 10% of the area.
 
bluethrunthru said:
However the election result isn't decided on that basis. Its how the votes stack up in each state and the electoral college seats that secures. Like it or lump it thats the way it works
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Yes I know this.

Just saying it seems ridiculous someone can have 2million more votes than someone and still lose.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
She won the popular vote by about 500k votes, not 2m. But the same can happen here so that's the system. But if you look at the results, the Republicans have had the same number of votes (just over 60m) in the last 3 elections. The problem this time was that Hillary lost the Democrats millions of votes.
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Last check I say in NYT was 1.3 with a projection of over 2m.
 
smudgedj said:
She lost because she deserved to lose, she spent her time labeling the opposition and the undecided as a basketcase of deplorables, as racist, as sexist, as homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic etc

Then it came as a great surprise that it failed to persuade them to switch their vote to her.

I see the New York Times has issued an apology to it's reader over it's biased reporting. Seems it came as a little bit of a shock that it's subscribers don't like being called names.
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She actually won him more votes by calling him out on racism, sexism etc as many of his followers voted for him because of those very things.
 
argyle said:
She actually won him more votes by calling him out on racism, sexism etc as many of his followers voted for him because of those very things.
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That is also bollocks. He received virtually the same number of votes that the last two Republican candidates received.

She lost as she received 7m less than Obama. People simply didn't vote for her.

She did not send for votes to him by calling him a racist. Saying things like that is summed up beautifully by that satirists video posted yesterday.
 
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