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How Game Theory/Strategic Voting Can Decrease Odds of a Trump Presidency

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It’s frightening how many people on the left feel so morally superior to others, they’ll excuse any authoritarian practice that complies with their political views, or goals.

OP Here. Why do you consider votetrading to be an "authoritarian practice?" If anything I would consider it significantly more democratic than a system in which voters in "safe" states have no effective say in the presidential election.

Vote trading by itself, i don’t think is an issue, as long as individual states deem it legal.

My comment is in the context of the article, and the way it was written. A frightening number of people on the left seem to be willing to go to any lengths, just to enforce their ideology on others, and they’ll excuse it by convincing themselves they’re superior, and thus right.

Thanks! Are there specific word choice or phrases in the article that you think I should change to be less offensive to those on the Right?

Oh, you’re the author! No, i don’t expect, or want, any change from a site that ends every post about Trump with:

"Note to our readers: Donald Trump is a serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist, misogynist, birther and bully who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims — 1.6 billion members of an entire religion — from entering the U.S.”

I don’t care about you offending people on the right, and they don’t seem to be taking offence in the first place.

I'm no fan of Clinton, but that seems like a fair description of Trump.

All I'm getting from your comments is that you don't like liberals. Votetrading isn't an authoritarian practice, but an article about liberals using votetrading is evidence of liberals' 'frightening' willingness to engage in authoritarian practices...

When asked for specific suggestions, you shift to nasty things HuffPo has to say about Trump, which is unrelated to the content of the article.

How the fuck is "voting" an authoritarian practice?

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