# Construct: Are you for real?

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**Created:** [August 11, 2015, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/construct-are-you-for-real/727501 "2015-08-11T00:12:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2015, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/construct-are-you-for-real/727501/19 "2015-08-11T04:45:45Z")

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(I’m not sure if the sequel belongs here, or in the IMHO thread. I’ve posted it to both.)

> [@What if Trump wins the 2016 presidential election?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-if-trump-wins-the-2016-presidential-election/727285/70):
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> … Zimbabwe probably should abandon Marxism, fly in Chicago school economists, and establish a government based on Lockean principles, they almost certainly won’t. It’s not impossible for non-White societies to create Western style governments, as Pinochet’s Chile and Singapore can attest, but it is very uncommon. And as such, if the US wants to maintain a traditional American government and way of life, we need to maintain traditional American people: Whites.

How about blacks, whose ancestors have been in U.S.A. longer than Irish, Italian immigrants, etc.? Or 2nd-generation immigrants from Asian and Hispanic cultures? Or 1st-generation immigrants for that matter who become U.S. citizens? Are they incapable of voting intelligently, or do you just not like how they vote?

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