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Old 04-21-2017, 04:49 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles (Native)
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What Trump and Le Pen are good at is knowing how to exploit fear.

Despite Trump's Putin move of trying to put his thumb on the scale of the French election, we'll see if fear wins out or if Trump's big mouth actually hurts candidates.
Tell the relatives of those killed by terrorists that they have nothing to fear.
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Old 04-21-2017, 04:59 PM
 
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What Trump and Le Pen are good at is knowing how to exploit fear.

Despite Trump's Putin move of trying to put his thumb on the scale of the French election, we'll see if fear wins out or if Trump's big mouth actually hurts candidates.
I think they both have the chance because people are already afraid.
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Old 04-21-2017, 05:00 PM
 
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This is the chance for liberals to support a woman for a major world role!
lol. There are far more interesting and powerful women on the right and they are actually winning, but feminists dont like right wing women. Feminism is only going to support leftists and conformist women who tow the line left wing line
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Old 04-21-2017, 05:09 PM
 
Location: St. Louis
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What Trump and Le Pen are good at is knowing how to exploit fear.

Despite Trump's Putin move of trying to put his thumb on the scale of the French election, we'll see if fear wins out or if Trump's big mouth actually hurts candidates.
I lot of Europeans are tired of seeing their countries turned into third world hell holes. Many Americans don't want to see that happening here, either.
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Old 04-21-2017, 05:10 PM
 
Location: St. Louis
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Every last Dutch person I know thinks Wilders is an idiot.

He will never become the head of that country. Their government is far too complex, even if he does have some nationalist kooks won over.
I bet every American you know thinks Trump is an idiot, and yet he's President.
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Old 04-21-2017, 05:11 PM
 
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Tell the relatives of those killed by terrorists that they have nothing to fear.
You have more to fear of random gun violence, being mugged, being killed by a bus/car as a pedestrian, being killed in an accident on the road, or even being struck by lightning.

The level of noise associated with terrorism fear and rhetoric doesn't match the statistical risk associated with being a target of a terrorist attack.

Notice, I'm not saying there is no risk - just that it is VERY low risk, and the attention payed to it is overblown.

These politicians largely know this...but fear is a powerful thing, especially fear of something that is hard to understand/relate to. And these politicians are exploiting that fear to their benefit.
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Old 04-21-2017, 05:15 PM
 
Location: Metro Detroit, Michigan
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The world is wising up to the mental disorder known as liberalism. Having witnessed the damage that liberalism causes, the masses are turning towards whatever represents the opposite of liberalism. Sanity prevails
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Old 04-21-2017, 05:15 PM
 
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I lot of Europeans are tired of seeing their countries turned into third world hell holes. Many Americans don't want to see that happening here, either.
There was never a chance that we would see anywhere near the amount of refugees coming here than have gone to European countries. We're talking tens of thousands vs. millions.

And we're an enormous country used to immigrants by comparison. Total apples to oranges.
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Old 04-21-2017, 05:18 PM
 
Location: 500 miles from home
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There was never a chance that we would see anywhere near the amount of refugees coming here than have gone to European countries. We're talking tens of thousands vs. millions.

And we're an enormous country used to immigrants by comparison. Total apples to oranges.
True. We define ourselves in terms of immigration - Lady liberty . . 'give me your poor" etc, etc.

France does not.
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Old 04-21-2017, 05:19 PM
 
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Every last Dutch person I know thinks Wilders is an idiot.

He will never become the head of that country. Their government is far too complex, even if he does have some nationalist kooks won over.
How many dutch people do you know? What type of people are they, I am sure europeans talking to american liberals would think everybody hates trump yet trump won 2,622 counties to Clintons 490 ,Trump won 304 electoral votes to Hillary Clinton’s 227.

Its amazing to see so many young millennial support le pen like the young people at trumps rallies, and in Holland wilders party is the second strongest the parties favouring open door policies towards immigrants and asylum seekers lost the majority which they previously held
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