>>This thinking that its ok to set a torch to all the progress we've made as a nation and our environment in order to move forward is short sighted and stupid.
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>Progress exists in the eye of the beholder.
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>Jeff Bezos' net worth just topped $100B.
>The Dow topped 24K today.
>Progress, right?
>But for whom?
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>My son and daughter-in-law are both hard-working professional engineers with high standings in their profession.
>At their age, with a stay-at-home wife, I was able to put two children through private colleges and still provide for a comfortable retirement (one of these days, I REALLY will retire)
>With two incomes, they can do neither.
>Their friends are in similar positions.
>I have many retired friends who worked hard all their lives and now have to choose between going to the MD or replacing a tire because their housing and medical costs are consuming an increasingly large chunk of their retirement incomes.
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>Many of these people voted for Trump because the "progress" you talk about has been negative for them.
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>short sighted and stupid?

Yes - very stupid and very short sighted. In case you missed the news flash Trump and the GOP are going to make things 100 times worse for them than they are now.

>What was anyone offering that sounded better?

See that is the problem here -- better than what? Better than Trump? uhhh geee everyone?? Better than HRC? Bernie Sanders. So by election time, the best remaining option for these people/friends you're talking about was HRC. Now Trump and GOP are making things much much worse for them whereas with HRC wouldn't of made as much progress as Bernie Sanders - she would of at least made some progress as she did take some of Sanders concepts on regarding college education costs and health care. Now take a look at what the orange clown and the GOP are doing right now as we speak. This is so freakn obvious how can you not get this dude?