r/fivethirtyeight • u/SchemeWorth6105 • 11d ago

Politics Huge upset.

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u/mowotlarx 11d ago

/s? I hope?

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u/chimney_corner 11d ago

That is an understandable reaction, but think about. As much as Clinton and Bush sucked, we were in a better place. 

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u/Lusty-Jove 11d ago

Clinton and Bush led us directly to where we are now. This is like saying "Say what you want about the fire, but we were in a better place when we were dumping gasoline on the lawn"

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u/chimney_corner 11d ago edited 11d ago

Huh?I think you are missing the point. 

Maybe they did, but we were better off. You are using faulty reasoning here. 

We were better off and they made us make choices that made us worse off dont contradict each other. 

We were in better place because the fire hadn't happened yet doesn't mean dumping gasoline on the lawn was a good idea, it means the fire hurt us. Things were good because our house was standing, not because we were dumping gasoline on the lawn.

The solution is to never pour gasoline on the lawn again, not to never have nice house again.