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LAS14

(13,783 posts)
Mon Oct 10, 2016, 12:08 PM Oct 2016

Is our society finally learning something about dealing with bullies?

The people in our living room and the PBS pundits, and, to some degree, CNN, were of the opinion that Trump may have not done himself a lot of damage, the way he did in the first debate. Of course all of us (being intelligent) recognized that on content, he lost badly. But we assumed that the American public would continue its disregard for content and be intimidated.

By this morning the tone had changed. It seems that watching a bully do his stuff for ninety minutes may have been a wake up. I hope everyone sees the front page of the New York Daily News. If we've learned even a little bit to recognize but not be intimidated by demagoguery and bully-hood, then Hillary will have done us a worth while service even beyond the good that she'll do as president.

Here is an OP that discusses the overnight turn around.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512493433

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