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applegrove

(118,642 posts)
Wed Dec 20, 2017, 07:58 PM Dec 2017

Heard about elections in Liberia coming up. They are the second set

of elections and there are a whole host of court cases involved in the elections. Reminded me of how it is still sometimes winner takes all in elections in parts of Africa. Especially in the past if your guy loses it is poverty for you. That the winners take all the jobs and get all the favours. Obama's father lost favour in Kenya and suffered... a brilliant man left doing not much. And it reminded me of Trump and how he has done things so far what with encouraging public servants to leave or taxing the rich in higher tax Democratic voting states. Now the GOP are all about a win for the base today and that is all Trump cares about. He is undoing the ties that bind the nation. Especially the notion that when a president governs and leads he or she do so for all Americans. IMHO

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