2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: So tell me again where we went "wrong". [View all]NanceGreggs
(27,835 posts).. about the positions and policies of any candidate is not irrelevant. In this day and age, failing to do so is willful ignorance.
The epic fail here is voters who looked at Trump, the "King of all outsources", and believed that he was interested in keeping their jobs states-side. The epic fail here is voters who heard Trump talk about grabbing pussies, and still considered him a "moral Christian chosen by God to lead the nation". The epic fail here is voters who heard Trump say he'd deport illegals, and thought that meant that six-figure job would now be theirs, now that a rapist Mexican would no longer "steal" that job out from under them.
The epic fail here is voters too dumb to realize that a billionaire living in a gilt-laden palace was NOT the champion of the out-of-work coal miner, nor the minimum wage worker, nor the dupe who invested their savings in being educated at "Trump University".
They chose to ignore the obvious. That's not HRC's fault, or the fault of the Democratic party. That's the fault of people too fuckin' stupid to avail themselves of information that is literally at their fingertips.
I have ZERO sympathy for people who ignored what HRC and the Dems stand for, and voted against their policies because "she didn't show up in my state".
Vote in haste - repent in leisure. And a LOT of voters will now have four years - as they lose their healthcare, their jobs, their homes and their savings - to repent having voted against their own interests because Hillary campaigning in their neighbourhood was more important than what she stood for.