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Trump in 2016:

She shouldn't be allowed to run.
If she were to win this election, it would create an unprecedented constitutional crisis.
In that situation we could very well have a sitting president under felony indictment and ultimately a criminal trial.
It would grind the government to a halt.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/donald-trump-trial-guilty-hillary-clinton-b2556563.html

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm Canadian, but I can still tell you why Democrats are more likely to turn against their own politicians.

People who vote Democrat tend to be more educated, and academics tend to lean left. The left-leaning academics are far more left leaning than the Democratic party and are aware that, while the Democrats are the lesser of two evils, they still stand to uphold the status quo for the ruling class, whereas the Republicans have devolved into explicit fascism.

Because the Republicans have fallen into fascism, the people who vote Republican are either undereducated and fall for the propaganda or they're part of the ruling class and want more money.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I hadn't really thought about the link to education much. I kind of figured that democrats just have more.. deal breakers than republicans, mostly due to empathy (which.. I don't think it's linked to education?). If you don't like hurting people, if you care about other people (and not just the ones you know), then there will obviously be a lot of things you won't accept.

But caring about the truth and reality and science is important, so I guess you do have a point.