Desperate is why you'll pay a high price to get even a small increase in the chance of a good result.
Ignorant is why you'll choose an option with a worse chance of a better result on the axis of concern.
I think in many cases people ignored the things they couldn't deny that they didn't like about Trump out of desperation, but I think that in many cases they also voted for him out of ignorant belief that he offered a better chance for change they wanted in other dimensions (either ignorance of his likely policies or ignorance of the likely impacts of those policies on things they really wanted out of them.)
not that i think this is a good idea by any stretch, but i know some of my friends and i (outside the US) thought that one good that might come out of is that maybe now politicians and people alike see how totally broken everything about their elections and political system is and shake things up? so far, that’s not the result; there’s been a light shon on many of the failings (electoral college) and 0 change
it’s possible that people just wanted ANYTHING other than the political crap fest that was the whole cycle that world politics is stuck in, and trump was a way to shake things up and help change things in ~10years
Ignorant is why you'll choose an option with a worse chance of a better result on the axis of concern.
I think in many cases people ignored the things they couldn't deny that they didn't like about Trump out of desperation, but I think that in many cases they also voted for him out of ignorant belief that he offered a better chance for change they wanted in other dimensions (either ignorance of his likely policies or ignorance of the likely impacts of those policies on things they really wanted out of them.)