I wonder how many of these protestors didn’t vote for Hillary because they thought she had it in the bag.

It is a lot easier to determine the point of the switch. Working class rust belt whites have seen their communities getting worse while the rest of the country bounced back.

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.

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…

White communities in suburban areas, like my home of suburban Wayne County (Detroit) have seen successful economic rebounds and improvements since the bottoming out of 2006 - 2010.

ETA DISMISS THE TROLLS

“I voted for Clinton but regret it because someone who works for her used to be married to someone who texted a picture of his junk to my teenaged daughter and she maybe checked her email once on her husband’s computer. Hillary didn’t know anything about any of this until last week, and she has never mentioned my…

Met my girlfriend on Groupthink :-) She’s written up the story a bit, and I just gave an abridged version! We’ll probably write a longer version in a month or so...

Update: I’ve been staring at that old newspaper photo on and off ever since that day last week - trying to will it into making some kind of sense. After posting this story, I felt like I had to look at it one more time. I just realized - that doll the little girl is holding? Is my doll, the one my aunt gave me.…

Aw, don’t be. I live in an old Victorian that had been split into two apartments, and my husband and I are restoring it to one home again. One day, I was in a bedroom stripping paint from the lovely woodwork and felt like someone was watching me.

The house where I grew up was pretty new - way newer than any of the other houses on the block. A typical one-story ranch house that you might see in any stretch of American suburbia. Likewise, all the furniture in the house was pretty par for the course. My room had a little-kid bed, a nightstand, a table and chairs…

This just happened, on the 1st of this month.

This took place when I was about 10 years old. My mom had rather quickly filed for divorce, but she only had a part-time job and made very little money, so finding a place to stay that was affordable and available immediately was tough. A friend of hers told her that she and her husband had…

Okay, so this may not be the scariest story ever, and none of you will ever see it because I’m as gray as they come, but it is 100% true and you can make of it what you will.

I have three, all having to do with the house I grew up in.

Let me preface by saying that this story that while I was not present at the first part of the story, I witnessed the fall out from the next day.

Look, I have bipolar disorder with major depression. It’s about communication. If you break plans because you can’t get out of bed, for example, have the decency to communicate that you have to break your plans. No ghosting. There’s a difference between being mentally ill and being a jerk. You can’t blame being a…

"1. Wronged woman lets herself into man's apartment, takes down his hollow metal curtain poles and fills them with shrimp. Re-installs poles, locks up and leaves. He goes insane over next few weeks trying to figure out where the terrible smell is coming from."