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Joined: September 03 2006
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Posted: November 11 2016 at 08:07
A post by Quora user Riley Flynn, which I found interesting:
"To put simply, we told you this was going to happen. We saw this coming for years, decades even. And by we, I mean progressives, socialists, communists and all the other far left “ists”and “isms”..
DNC and party loyalists this is your problem and your fault. Not the media, not Trump. You. You've moved to the right for years, you've allowed the GOP to push you right every damn election cycle. We've told you not to enter into stupid wars. We've told you to protect unions. We've told you to object free trade. We told you about rising education costs. We warned you about boom and bust economics. We've warned you about wealth inequality. We've warned you about abandoning the working class in favor of corporations, professionals, celebrities, and “elites”.
What did you do with these warnings? You didn't listen. You took their money and did their bidding. You guys want to claim credit for marriage equality? We did that, you came along. Affordable Care Act? The definition of crony capitalism. You gave up on everything you say you believe in. And when you went right, of course the GOP had to past right wing and into crazy. All the while people were stewing in anger. Towns turning in to Walmarts and chain restaurants. Jobs leaving. College outrageously priced. Schools defunded. Turning our police into an occupying force. Locking people up for plants and chemicals. All of it. This is on you. You are supposed to be the party of the people and you became Republicans who know what to say. It worked for a long time, after all the GOP always had worse people. This year was different and everything was telling you it was.
Donald Trump was clearly going to win the primary very early on. You laughed at it, great! our girl will beat her.
Meanwhile you had a Senator with a different vision for your party and you hated it. It was her turn. You said he couldn't win when every poll showed him winning with every demographic against any of the GOP candidates. Now she won the primary, that is true. I won't say fair and square but won nonetheless.
So her as someone, who supposedly cares deeply about America, thought it would be a good idea to enter in a race when the people clearly from the beginning had no interest or like for her? When she was under a criminal investigation? When her and her husbands policies f**ked over the people she had to get to vote for her? You and her thought that was a good idea?
No you and all your infinite wisdom have brought fascism to America. You allowed a virtual coup to happen on Tuesday. Your candidate, while smart and decent, brought your party to its knees last night. Trump and the right wing control the entire federal governmet, 2/3 of state legislatures, and have a mandate from the voters to do the things he promised."
By the way, I am personally not so sure Sanders would have won after listening to a CNN report on Latino voters from Orlando who voted for Trump. Trump managed to touch upon a very broad basket of issues (without, of course, breaking any of them down into the details) - jobs, trade, terrorism, illegal immigration. These could and would be burning issues in an election down here as well, they are universal concerns. I thought Sanders was a little blindsided when it came to foreign policy and terror, compassionate socialist that he was. He would have won over other lefties like him but may not have assured the average Joe that he had a plan for terror. Not that there is any evidence thus far of Trump having a plan but he sold that idea to his voters.
Joined: April 11 2014
Location: Kyiv In Spirit
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Posted: November 11 2016 at 08:42
^ Yeah, we "isms" did see it coming. I'll never be convinced that Bernie could not win because he simply didn't get as far as Hillary. He was not the Democratic nominee and his future mandates and policies were muted.
Joined: March 12 2005
Location: Neurotica
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Posted: November 11 2016 at 11:16
zappaholic wrote:
Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:
Ben Carson, a Young Earth Creationist, Secretary Of Education.
Nah. The Department of Education will be abolished.
You might as well if he is truly pegged for the post.
Edited by Man With Hat - November 11 2016 at 11:17
Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
Joined: March 12 2005
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Posted: November 11 2016 at 11:16
rushfan4 wrote:
Howard Stern will be made head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Is it wrong that I'm kind of ok with that?
Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
Joined: June 14 2007
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Posted: November 11 2016 at 11:19
So far his cabinet is potentially shaping up to be a who's who of the insane and billionaires (sorry millionaires, but who's counting?), and an oil tycoon. The working class that voted for him are going to be swallowing a very bitter pill.
Edited by progaardvark - November 11 2016 at 11:50
---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions
Joined: October 16 2006
Location: FL, USA
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Posted: November 11 2016 at 13:20
TeleStrat wrote:
The Electors will vote on Dec. 19th.
There are online petitions urging the Electors to go against their state's votes and give Clinton the win.
The electors have gone along with their state's votes over 99% of the time.
Does anyone see even a remote chance of an upset if millions of people sign the petitions?
I don't think there is a chance in hell of this happening but I'm curious to see if anyone feels differently.
No. I would love to have these results somehow changed, but I don't support this. The constitutional and social crisis it could create are too horrible to imagine. We have already enough of a divided society already to add more fuel, and really heavy fuel, to the fire.
Joined: March 31 2006
Location: United States
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Points: 1184
Posted: November 11 2016 at 17:56
SteveG wrote:
It could be worse. When Abraham Lincoln was elected, the entire south succeeded.
They tried to secede, but didn't succeed.
progaardvark wrote:
So far his cabinet is potentially shaping up to be a who's who of the insane and billionaires (sorry millionaires, but who's counting?), and an oil tycoon. The working class that voted for him are going to be swallowing a very bitter pill.
I doubt the working class who voted for him have any familiarity with many of those positions, let alone the people who might occupy them. Remember, Trump won overwhelmingly with the least educated among us. They only want results, and placating them will mostly be a matter of controlling the message (at least for 4 years; the electorate will be toothless thereafter).
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