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Telling Clinton that there might be a debate question about the Death Penalty doesn't even rise to the level of trivial.
He did not work to build popular support for what he wanted (like Regean did)
nor did he work the congress and twist arms (like LBJ did).
He took what was easy and played a lot of golf.
He didn't advance us toward energy independence,
did nothing to prepare for the inevitable effects of climate change,
ObamaCare took what was wrong with healthcare and doubled down on it;
it is not just Hillary, Obama bears some of the blame.
"Love the fact that the small groups of protesters last night have passion for our great country. We will all come together and be proud!"
Oh, and call Islamic extremism what it is instead of "work place violence" would be a good thing to.
I'm not at all discounting the profound disadvantage it is to be black, brown, Jewish, Muslim, or female. Those disadvantages have always been there. The difference now is that those people will be beaten and killed by Trump's brownshirts. The Democratic Party must rise up and defend people from the very real threats to their lives, and it is clear that most of the current leadership isn't capable of preventing the lynchings and pogroms that are inevitable. But when the transformation in the Democratic Party happens as it must the focus cannot only be on protecting the lives of Americans - and everyone else - but on protecting their livelihoods as well.
That doesn't mean we do things regarding the economy like we have in the past. Globalization has definitely had a negative impact that was ignored, and refusal to pay attention to those issues is what led us to this shit show in the first place. Yet there were real benefits when Boeing was able to export planes to China, or farmers sold hops to German. How we preserve what worked, while preventing the exploitation of Boeing's engineers or the farm workers in Eastern Washington, is a massive intellectual challenge.
The Republicans and Trump won't be able to solve it. For one thing, they don't give a shit about Boeing's engineers or the farm workers in Eastern Washington. And they won't give a fuck if poor people go hungry or die from lack of health care. For another, their "ideas" are going to to cause the problems. That leaves the Left to figure out how to do it. I doubt our current leaders have the intellectual heft to get it done. When the biggest leaders on the Left are cultural ones like Michael Moore and Samantha Bee, or ineffectual nut jobs like Stein, them there is a problem. So that leaves leaders who are yet to emerge.
Did you get a secret decoder ring?
The Dems have been ignoring he working class for decades. It caught up to them.
No, the Democractic Primary voters went to Hillary. That wasn't a groundswell, that was the fucking ground just sitting there being the same ground it has been for 30 years. The swelling was the Bernie vote.
Win or you're fired.
Here's a Young Turks video that perfectly describes my exact thoughts on how to rebuild the Democratic Party.
https://youtu.be/NbgIBqycge0?list=FLdG_U…
actually we were pretty shocked.
Hillary had EVERYTHING in her favor.
Money.
Connections.
Hollywood.
The Media.
Ground game.
Huge political machine.
Did we mention Money? How much did she outspend Trump by?
Carpet bombing TV ads.
Victory Tour with Barack and Michelle. (might have been prudent to wait till after the vote to celebrate, however…)
Trump;
abandoned by the party whose nominee he was,
not one elected official willing to even appear with him,
out spent, no organization,
no ground game.
It seemed hopeless.
The only thing Trump had was the support of the uncounted despised forgotten working class and rural masses.
but it was enough.
BUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Man it has been fun spiking the ball in the faces of these triggered Millenials and special snow flakes.
Yeah, the future is not you, buddy.
Fuck all these babies trying to build the Resistance. It's not a fucking adventure. The job right now is to prevent Asshole from taking office in the first place. There's still time. There's still legal recourse.
If the Democratic Party doesn't learn from it's mistakes, it's going to repeat them. That's how things work. Hillary Clinton's candidacy was a mistake.