It also ignores the simple fact that many people this election - on both sides - weren’t voting for anyone as much as against the other idiot.
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Did they want white people at the top? Did Obama supporters want a black man at the top? some did, others wanted Obama specifically, others wanted Not McCain, Romney. When voting for the President of the US, theres plenty of variables and to narrow it down to race just isnt fair
Yeah thats nuts. All thats being accomplished there is just trying to broaden the definition of a white supremacist so you can be free to call a larger group of people that. I agree that you don’t have to wear a hood to be one but the rest of that isnt reality
“and because hitler liked caramel, should i not like caramel to avoid being connected to hitler?” is an equivalently idiotic statement
He ran a racially divisive campaign and got fewer votes than the last two Republican candidates for president. It would seem pretty apparent that the people went out and voted along party lines, same as they do every year for any candidate regardless of party affiliation.
Didnt vote for trump and couldnt because he will be a terrible president, but im blown away by all the slippery slope and poisoning the well, and a myriad of other critical thinking errors going on when trying to make all trump voters white supremacists. Its literally just as bad as anything trump says and has been…
Sorry, when you say he, do you mean Trump? I’m unsure which part of my comment you’re referring to.
Talk to them? As Obama reminded us this morning, politics is persuasion, and when we lose, perhaps we should look within our party and not merely write off people voting otherwise as irredeemable. Clinton lost votes in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Ohio, which are all states the Repubs have worked on crushing union power.…
If you’re upset that Trump won (as I am), you want to look into how to beat him next time. If you want to beat him next time, you need to understand the reasons, the real reasons, he won this time. Not some comforting story that can be summed up in a single sentence. If progressives hope to learn from this defeat,…
Sanders would’ve taken it in a landslide; Trump didn’t win this election, Hillary lost it. She is, and always was, a bad candidate.
Nope. Sanders did better with rust-belt voters. Nationally, he polled significantly higher against Trump than Hillary. All this talk about racism being the key factor is a bit elitist. In Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, blue collar voters gambled. They bet on the unknown of Trump versus what they viewed as “more…
Forgive me for saying so but it seems pretty silly to suggest that 110 million voters were single issue voters and that that issue was “being racist”. It is not adult thinking to paint so large a group with so broad a brush. Trump won over 50% of women. Does that mean most women are mysogynists?
Many of these people were forced into Obamacare, and don’t want/need/can’t afford it. As soon as the announcements that rates were going to double for some people, I knew Trump would win. He said he would repeal and replace it and that was enough for many of these people. They voted with their wallets. Rural…
I am with you. This was a rejection of the Business as usual elite who turned up their nose at these peoples concerns. Obama never prosecuted a single CEO, banker, or hedge fund manager — totally covering for Wall Street while leaving these voters to pick up the tab. And when asked about her Wall Street speeches…
I don’t always agree with your opinions but I think this is dead on.
“I look forward to them lashing out at the GOP in the next midterm when their situation doesn’t markedly improve.”
The “enlightened” left continually misses what a large swath of America cares about. This is exactly how the DNC and every large media organization never predicted this election. They simply don’t understand, or want to understand, middle america.
You’ve done a great job here pointing out a phenomenon known as “point-and-laugh liberalism.” Maybe if the Democrats adopted the a policy of unconditional respect, one that was advocated by... what’s his name.... the old white guy from Vermont, we wouldn’t be staring at this goddamn travesty. These people are…
I’d add that anytime they were spoke to, they were called racist, sexist, xenophbic, uneducated bigots. Apparently you shouldn’t alienate one of the biggest voting blocks in the country.