I can't and won't speak for others.Election is over.
Why is there so much angst?
Hitesh, Gus, Arun, Yayvar each get one post to explain.
When it comes to me, can you please stop asking me the 'can you stop beating your wife' type questions. My "angst" is your own imagination. How can I answer or explain that?
If you have not been eager to club all contrary opinions across the spectrum into one single point of "angst", then maybe you would not be asking me that question.
I will give you one example. Dipanker had several posts on electoral college vs popular vote and I posted this -
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Do you see any angst there? I don't. I've clearly moved on from elections. As said before, I ordered my crow soup and drank it and I don't post on that topic anymore, even in the recount circus going on. But other postors have (UB, for ex) keep posting on that back and forth with Dipanker - despite your specific warning, but you choose to pick on me for reasons I don't understand.electoral system ensures that the winning candidate has a broad based support from more states.
if it was only popular vote, then candidates would be polarized more in trying to extract all votes out of some states...and this would pit states against states..a civil war like situation.
trump won not only with 'red states'...he did flip some blue leaning states and that is credit to him and gives his presidency a legitimacy that he will not have if he squeezed some more votes out of deep south and got the popular vote method to presidency.
I mostly call out some stuff..like for ex the Manafort thing. Before election, concerns about him were dismissed as "he is just a pro". Now he is highlighted as a concern by the same people who were dismissive before. Asking clarification of that gets me branded as a paki. And having "angst" by you.
You've also posted once that "Gus, you are going strong even after proven wrong". I really do not get that. Am I to not post anything on this topic because I thought Trump would lose and he did not? Is that the yardstick to posting rights in this forum? That predictions and observations should be right or else be banished from having opinions. Aren't arguments to be looked at its own merit, instead of poster's authority or history? Surely you are aware of logical fallacies and of your own postings in the past where you have pushed for discussion of ideas than people.
After his meeting with Xi, he told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, “This president-elect, it’s the most unique that I’ve experienced in one respect: He has absolutely no baggage.” He argued that despite Trump’s inflammatory campaign positions, analysts “should not insist in nailing him to positions that he had taken in the campaign on which he doesn’t insist.”
