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[MrFanti]

Thanks, trump voters. Fuck you all.

Ben,
IMHO, part of how Trump got elected is that the Clinton group totally ignored the Sanders supporters.

Add to that the fact that quite a few Sanders supporters did not like Clinton. And then finally, when you factor in how the DNC tilted the primaries in favor of Clinton - well a lot of pissed off Sanders supported voted for Trump instead of Hillary.

The next Democrat candidate must figure out a way to win over the Sanders supporters - they were the wild card that went with Trump instead of Hillary.

[giovanni_hotel]

Actually Amazon have created many - from Comixology, to the Kindle books, to reselling second hand stuff on Amazon.

Where I live, brick and mortar retailers are closing it seems almost every month, all because of the dominance of Amazon online in the retail market, as well as Walmart.

Secondary markets are not the same as competitive businesses arising to challenge the dominant companies in a specific market.

I can't believe there's actually a discussion right now about the impact of monopolies on the overall economy.

Amazon and Walmart both control pricing in retail and I've yet to see anyone able to challenge their market share.

Small companies grow into monopolies more often than not from breaking some form of antitrust law, either through mergers with their competition or price fixing.

No one becomes a monopoly because they 'accidentally' worked harder.

[MrFanti]

Where I live, brick and mortar retailers are closing it seems almost every month, all because of the dominance of Amazon online in the retail market, as well as Walmart.

Do you stick to your principles and make the extra effort to support your local brick n' mortar stores or no?

I do.
I've spent thousands of dollars in photography equipment at my local brick n' mortar store instead of buying from the giants of B&H or Adorama...

[MrFanti]

Ben,
IMHO, part of how Trump got elected is that the Clinton group totally ignored the Sanders supporters.

Add to that the fact that quite a few Sanders supporters did not like Clinton. And then finally, when you factor in how the DNC tilted the primaries in favor of Clinton - well a lot of pissed off Sanders supported voted for Trump instead of Hillary.

The next Democrat candidate must figure out a way to win over the Sanders supporters - they were the wild card that went with Trump instead of Hillary.

Addendum: These are the Sanders supporters that the next Democrat candidate must figure out how to win over.
http://www.newsweek.com/susan-sarand...roll-me-722648

SUSAN SARANDON: HILLARY CLINTON WOULD HAVE BEEN A 'VERY DANGEROUS' PRESIDENT

[smalltownguy]

Addendum: These are the Sanders supporters that the next Democrat candidate must figure out how to win over.
http://www.newsweek.com/susan-sarand...roll-me-722648

win over her ass.....

[smalltownguy]

Did you just say monopolies promote competition in a free market??lol
Monopolies control pricing and access. They literally suck the oxygen from any potential competitors.

Get your head out of your ass and stop talking about what you pretend to be true.

Monopolies by nature CRUSH competition, they don't incentivize it.

What new business models have Walmart and Amazon created in their shadow???lol

Actually Amazon have created many - from Comixology, to the Kindle books, to reselling second hand stuff on Amazon.

monopolies by nature still rules.....competition

[giovanni_hotel]

win over her ass.....

There's no way to win over anyone who thinks the USA would be better off with Trump as POTUS instead of Hillary.

That's delusional/pathological thinking.

It's easy to say let the whole thing burn down when you personally aren't in the path of the inferno.

[MrFanti]

There's no way to win over anyone who thinks the USA would be better off with Trump as POTUS instead of Hillary.

That's delusional/pathological thinking.

It's easy to say let the whole thing burn down when you personally aren't in the path of the inferno.

Hillary's problem was that she ignored the middle class. Both BIDEN and SANDERS recognized this.
Biden (who I like more than Hillary) didn't run but IMHO, would have beat Trump hand down and Sanders who could have won the primaries were it not for the DNC slanting the primaries in favor of Hillary.

If Biden had run, (which I emphasize again would have slam dunked Trump), he wouldn't have got past the primaries either due to the DNC slanting the primaries in favor of Hillary.

Bottom Line: If the DNC hadn't been "owned" by Clinton, then Biden would have probably ran and defeated Trump and/or Sanders would have defeated Hillary and very well Trump.

[MrFanti]

There's no way to win over anyone who thinks the USA would be better off with Trump as POTUS instead of Hillary.

And IMHO, the USA would be better off with Biden over Hillary.

[Stavros]

Ben,
IMHO, part of how Trump got elected is that the Clinton group totally ignored the Sanders supporters.
Add to that the fact that quite a few Sanders supporters did not like Clinton. And then finally, when you factor in how the DNC tilted the primaries in favor of Clinton - well a lot of pissed off Sanders supported voted for Trump instead of Hillary.
The next Democrat candidate must figure out a way to win over the Sanders supporters - they were the wild card that went with Trump instead of Hillary.

There is a strong argument that complacency in the Democrat Party weakened their overall campaign, but it doesn't explain how Sanders, who does not sit as a Democrat in Congress, was allowed on to the ticket in the first place. You have a strange situation in the USA where someone who is not a member of a party can nevertheless run for its top job. Sanders was never going to be nominated, he was there to undermine Hillary Clinton.

Incredibly in the circumstances, you allow no influence at all on voters of the hundreds of thousands of negative Clinton implants in social media -most of it 'fake news'- that originated from the bot factory in Russia and the extent to which the Republican candidate received money and 'assistance' from the Russians in violation of the law. The election was won small margins in a few states that tipped the balance in the Electoral College. The Republican candidate twice in one day publicly called on Wikileaks and the Russians to help his campaign- when did you last hear a Presidential candidate in the middle of a campaign beg for help from foreign governments?