[FRIAM] Biden beats Trump

[Frank Wimberly]

But I have no idea where to start.
Come down to Mountainair with me one of these days.

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Frank C. Wimberly
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On Sun, Nov 8, 2020, 10:14 AM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jochen,
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> After my original bout of hysteria, I have been pretty sure that Biden was
> going to win this narrowly.  But this outcome hasn’t improved my mood.
> Hysteria still lurks, because 70 million Americans, more than any that have
> voted for any other presidential candidate except Biden, have endorsed the
> Presidency of  Donald Trump.  That this fact should be beyond my
> comprehension shows me – as Dave West has been pointing out – the weakness
> of my model of the people I am living among.   Imagine how you would feel
> if 49 percent of the German electorate have voted for a neo-Nazi or 49
> percent of the French had voted for Le Pen.
>
>
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>               According to my benighted Deweyan, Liberal, Bleeding-Heart
> ethos, this fact implies a duty to reach  out to these folks and try to
> find some common ground  on which to stand and from which to work. But I
> have no idea where to start.
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> But thanks for your good wishes.  Lord knows we will need them.
>
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>
> Nick
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> Nicholas Thompson
>
> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
>
> Clark University
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> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
>
> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Jochen Fromm
> *Sent:* Sunday, November 8, 2020 4:19 AM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> Friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* [FRIAM] Biden beats Trump
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> America has been able to accomplish what Europe has not been able to do
> before WW II: stop fascism (in form of an authoritarian dictatorship)
> before it was able to take root in the system. Congratulations! It feels
> good that the old America is back. People are celebrating in the streets in
> NY and DC while team Trump is holding one of the last press conferences at
> the Four Seasons Total Landscaping (!) center in Philadelphia. It is hard
> to say what is bigger: the malice or the incompetence of team Trump. It is
> such a relief that we no longer have to hear each day about Trump.
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> https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/11/four-seasons-total-landscaping-trump-team-news-conference.html
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> -J.
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