NoneOfUrBusiness

To be honest I'd called a Trump victory early on, but how the fuck is he winning this hard? Hell he didn't even need Michigan.

There are other wordle sites BTW so it's not like you have to stop playing the game, just don't use NYT's version.

Others mentioned the cognitive side; the other part is that Bernie isn't out of touch. He knows what the people want and he voted for it. That's very different to your average gerontocrat who barely knows what the internet is.

Oh shit I didn't notice. As a proud grammar Nazi, I must now commit keppusu.

I live in a region that's been a melting pot for quite some time now

If you're in Europe, I'd wager that your country has a thriving right wing movement that has seen increased support over the last 10 years, and that they gained that support at least partially by promising to stop immigration or deport immigrants. Otherwise, well, there's too little information here for me to say anything.

That's not rooted in objective reality or facts.

It's objective truth that a significant fraction of any population is deeply xenophobic and doesn't view these things as you do. I'm making a claim about the human psyche, not ethnic differences, so you're not really refuting my point.

but a felon can run as a candidate

No no this one is one of the good ideas in the American system. In dictatorships this sort of restriction can be and is used as a way to prevent political rivers from running for office.

I can imagine like 20-30% of racists around, or people who've been fooled by some charismatic character. But not half.

You have too much faith in humanity. A smart-sounding Greek guy or another said that democracy is only possible with a homogenous population, otherwise the country will tear itself apart. I don't agree with that conclusion, but the process they described is true, in both Europe and America. The way I see it, America has been ethnically diverse for a lot longer so they're closer to or at the peak of the allergy-like reaction you witness in an ethnically diverse democracy. Meanwhile Europe only started feeling it recently because of Middle Eastern immigration, and it's looking like that. Europe will in all likelihood go down a worse version of the same trajectory we've seen unfold in America.

The first one makes more sense when you realize that America was originally supposed to be somewhere between one large state and X independent states in an EU-style union. Presidential elections are the federal government asking the states who they want to be president and the states then asking the people (technically they don't have to do that part AFAIK). It's weird but internally consistent at least.

Shipped.

Switch to freelance.

Without the evolutionary pressure to maintain high melanin levels in the skin, and possibly also from interbreeding with Neanderthaal, European people's got paler.

But what's the evolutionary pressure keeping melanin levels among ethnicities that stayed black? And why does it affect people in Central and South Africa but not in North Africa and the Middle East, when both regions are about equally hot?

Part of it is Christian single issue voters. He got a bunch of votes with abortion stuff.