2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: "Owning Our Shit" (warning, lots of salty language). [View all]BainsBane
(57,291 posts)That's who voters chose out of the 300,000 million possibilities. And the White Supremacist and Sexual Predator won. And the fact is all the bullshit about establishment Dems was absolutely about race and gender. Racism restricted access to franchise in key states. Among the things Democrats do wrong is their obsessive focus on individuals for the presidency rather than working for control at the state level, which results in control of redistricting and control of elections, including voter disenfranchisement. Trump's margin of victory in WI was about 25k but 300k were denied the vote because of ID laws. When states keep people of color from voting, they can't vote. Than we hear white men going on about how Democrats need to focus on first-class votes instead of the inferior votes of women and people of color who actually compromise the vast majority of the Democratic electorate.
Right now I'm fucking pissed off, and I will damn well express it. I get to grieve.