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Old Posted Mar 25, 2017, 2:27 PM
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Originally Posted by JM5 View Post
It's nice to spend your days in a comfortable world where you rest assured in the knowledge that you're better informed than others who might disagree with you, until one day you wake up to the reality that THEIR VOTES COUNT JUST AS MUCH AS YOURS ANYWAY.

Funny, I thought this message would have gotten through loud and clear with Trump's election. Guess not...
I suspect that everyone has gotten the message. Where views differ would be in terms of what to do about it, or even whether anything can, or should, be done about it in a hot-wired world where numbers matter more than (or, rather, to the exclusion of) expertise or traditional social conventions.

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