For months, I have told my close friends that I never felt confident re Hillary winning notwithstanding the polls. Just sensed the winds of change were afoot.
Trump didn't win because his opponent was Hillary. He won because he masterfully filled the void abandoned by the Democrats.
My party has gradually lost touch with the lunch-pail, blue collar voters, who were the heart and soul of the party for decades, -- the FDR Democrats.
The campaign $$ chases the easy minority votes in the cities. The middle class, small towns and rural America are left out of the equation.
Worse, we make fun of them. See Bill Maher on HBO. We've become elitists, snobs, intellectuals. Our fundraising comes from Hollywood.
After last night, the Dems need to reconnect with the heartland, the rust bucket states, and the entire hardworking middle class. It starts with straight talk and treating them with the dignity they deserve.
As posted last week, I have great respect for the electorate. The verdict has been rendered. The political reset button has been set.
It is admittedly difficult to treat President Trump with any inkling of respect, given the divisive nature in which he ran. But he is now our President Elect. I will not question his place of birth or call him a "chimp."
Congrat's to all Trump supporters. I genuinely hope he turns out to be a terrific President.
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Link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YKeYbEOSqYc
forewarned by one of their own...
there is no need to challenge Trump's eligibility for office. Don't stay away long. Your postings are always contributions with substance to the board.
Godspeed,
LT
If you haven't read it yet, I recommend Thomas Frank's most recent book Listen Liberal: What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? that I think captures it all very well.
with answers, they created fear in it and that is definitely a fault of the D's for abandoning that promise of caring about all Americans.
Trump insulted all American's including the lunch-pail American and America accepted it as a norm. The country was easily manipulated by the media foisting Trumps rally's across the nation on TV for all to see and hear even when his message of fear and hate was obvious.
I don't think Hollywood made much of a difference and people like Maher trying to goad that portion of America into thinking beyond the stupidity of a Trump may be wrong headed but when we hear rhetoric like "grow a pair" from the R's being accepted and reused, you tend to answer back with the same curse. I don't think it can or should be expected that American's be treated one way with one group and differently from another when they themselves can't see the difference. I side with Maher on this. Places like Michigan who have been over run and mistreated by the Republicans in power for years and years (water supply) - where Obama helped save the auto industry - vote in Trump who has no game plan for Michigan, its industry or its citizens is beyond dumb and should be treated as such. They're not stupid people, just lazy when it comes to making choices. They've been beaten down and come across like they have Stockholm Syndrome. It's what they hear and accept. They voted like morons and we'll all pay for it.
You've learned nothing from Hillary and Obama's tone-deafness towards a large segment of society.
Most don't even like Trump...but it was the only avenue to change from what they see being shoved down their throats and told to like. Well, guess what,...they don't...
Telling them louder seems to be your answer....
To all those who would vote for Trump the lead wraith of despicable because they didn't like HRC, the most qualified of all candidates in a generation and more because she was not their favorite person represents the epitome of tone deaf and stupid.
They who would vote against their own dire interests because they didn't like something as measly as she stuck up for her cheating husband is among the lamest of arguments from the soulless of people. And one of you schmucks calls them victims. That's fucking genius. They're morons.
The facts are clearly there - most of the recovery since 2008-2010 have gone to wealthy people in cities and bypassed low- and middle-income families, especially in rural towns. That's added to decades of automation (mostly) and cheaper foreign labor taking away many of those towns' core jobs. Again, all facts and indisputable.
The amazing thing is the Democrats ceded the position of perceived solver of those problems to a megalomaniac billionaire that has no ability to solve many of the problems (coal is not coming back, my friends) or likely doesn't care to. If it weren't so potentially dangerous, it would be laughable.
Getting crushed by shrinking wages and job opportunities while costs, esp. HC, rise.
Hillary chose to be the Wall Street candidate while labeling the working class as "deplorables". She deserved to lose.
But whatever, I don't really care anymore.
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with middle-class America. Even in last election (2012) that Romney lost pretty badly, you can see from election stat that Romney got significant more support from middle class voters than Obama. Obama care and environment/climate policy are 2 examples that are carried out at the expense of middle class.
compliments again. Unfortunately, it was/is all-about the money for the Clintons.
The investigation into the foundation will go on I hope.
We have diminished the "rule of law' Obama needs to take responsibility for that.
The American people saw it happen before their eyes. There can be no country without boarders,
No respect for the law, without consequences. Obama will pardon 100's if not thousands when he leaves office,
with his middle finger in the air. "The hell with the law."
Now you pay--we pay for all his/democrats transgressions
Time to rebuild.
After reading that, third grade English must have been a bitch for you.
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The republican establishment can learn a lot from this election as well.
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Would really be interested in what you have to say.
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