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To: MagillaX
It boils down to:
The current system is losing legitimacy in the eyes a growing segment of the public. Trump, although an imperfect vehicle, embodies the collective outrage.
When any government loses the consent of those empowering it, said system falls. To quote from what now is considered a scary document:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

IMHO, this is what is driving the Trump phenomenon, even if it is not being said so succinctly.

9 posted on 10/29/2016 12:59:53 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (For every Allende, there is a Pinochet)
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To: sauropod

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22 posted on 10/29/2016 1:31:03 AM PDT by sauropod (Beware the fury of a patient man. I've lost my patience!)
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To: Tench_Coxe
Your comment resonates with something I was telling a friend earlier tonight.

Even if she wins, Hillary Clinton will be entering office as the President who has already most lost her moral mandate. She will have NO real credibility or legitimacy outside of her most fringe followers, but those aren't really people who give a damn about morality anyway.

Oh she'll have power. All the power she's ever lusted after. But the asterisk beside her name will forever eclipse the one which may be next to that of Bush 43.

Being the first woman President will be for nought if Hillary can not also be a capable, competent, and wise President. I have yet to meet a sane person who believes she is going to be anything remotely like that. She has lost what the Chinese call the "Mandate of Heaven" and to choose to inflict ourselves with her despite that will not end well.

26 posted on 10/29/2016 1:44:52 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
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