tl;dr: we’re fucked but half of us knew that.

After watching video of a chopper gun down a civilian minivan in the Middle East, I no longer enjoyed military shooter games.

Is there a NYT poll that breaks down the vote by...oh, I don’t know “Levels of Socially Progressive Beliefs”? Because, while the financial self-assessment (emphasis on SELF) may be true, I can guaran-fucking-tee that many of the people who feel they are “financially worse off today”:

Hell yeah. As a poor person don’t put this shit on us.

She received 9.5 MILLION fewer votes than Obama did 8 years ago and 6.5 MILLION fewer than Obama 4 years ago. She also received fewer votes than Romney and 2004 Bush. She won the popular vote because she ran against an awful person. The OP’s criticism that Clinton wasn’t a likable candidate still stands.

It’s both. It’s the white working class but also white people in general. The white working class, it’s true, is disenfranchised and has been left behind by both main parties. They’re the biggest losers in our economic model and their jobs are never coming back, no matter what Trump tells them. However, Trump was able…

•Anybody but Clinton could have beaten him, he was the most unpopular candidate in history.

I clicked this fucking article for this kind of shit and I thank you for providing.

I agree. And yet, I read a number of stories about how those folks overwhelmingly felt the government failed them and didn’t do enough to help them. Aren’t these the same folks who say government isn’t the solution to our problems?

Right, we get that. But its not all this one thing or all this other thing. Its in somewhere in the middle, like it always is.

I think the issue is that Hillary didn’t speak to them specifically as white people. Because she should not have needed to. Those ppl weren’t the only communities in the rust belt suffering. People in the next neighborhood over were going through the same thing, and worse.

...or the majority of college-educated white men, who voted for this buffoon? or the 66% of white women, a healthy portion of whom surely don’t live in the rust belt, who felt this spray-tanned buttnugget was a better choice than one of their own?

By claiming racism, sexism, xenophobia, or other fun castigations, you are completely missing that these communities are reacting to their situation continuing to get worse.

two opposing views can be equally true. He’s racist sexist and xenophobic. So are the rust belt voters who voted for him. Their situation is also not getting better and Hillary could not speak to their concerns.

Trump’s not going to give them manufacturing jobs. And those alternative jobs you listed are just burning shit that we can’t afford to be burning anymore.

I guess the great crime here is that Hillary failed to offer up impossible and worthless platitudes to these folks. I don’t look down on working class people, my father certainly falls into that category. However, you’re selling snake oil to these people if you try to convince them that manufacturing is coming back as…

Weird how the only economic demographic Trump didn’t win was people making under $50k annually, but sure, this was “economic anxiety.”

Voting for a candidate that espouses those things is an endorsement of them. A person can feel all the entitlement they want to a good job they once had, and believe that Trump is somehow going to move an iPhone factory to Wisconsin so you can keep stamping metals or whatever, but if you place those motives above…

Except if you support a racist, sexist, xenophobe to lead your country, you are one, regardless of your reasoning. Obviously democrats should have done a better job trying to win votes from rust belt whites, but the people who voted for Trump don’t get a free pass on their bigoted act.

I know so many women who are single issues voters and that single issue is abortion. When the GOP gets ahold of funding for planned parenthood and guts the ACA, I’m going to look at the abortion statistics rise every single month, post those numbers on facebook, and tag every single one of them so they know what…