Seriouly, that’s your instinctive response, to blame the loosers? Not a rigged system or a campaign run by a racist, misogynistic demagogue. Or the unprecedented interference of the FBI. No, the DNC & HRC deserved it, because they are evil and crooked and corrupt. While a property tycoon with several outstanding court cases and several legal rulings against him won fair and square.
I really don’t get it, how people can be so blinded in their hate for HRC not to be capable to differentiate.
What you are up against here is the loaded dice and what you are fighting is human fallibility. An instinctive response to risk and live’s uncertainties. Putting down, ridiculing, hating those different, less powerful, while reaffirming your self-worth by being associated with a certified “winner”, that is how demagogue works. The examples are ample throughout history.
As John Steinbeck pointed out, a long time ago, at their core Americans are temporarily embarrassed millionaires, so it’s rather unsurprising that they have attached their fortune to an ostentatious, real one.
Here is a picture of your next President, and don’t dare blame that on the DNC or HRC, because people knew what they were voting for, and they knew what the potential consequences of not voting were, and even here on bbs HRC $12,000 coat got more attention than anything she did for women’s equality.
If you are serious about fighting Trump stop taking the easy way out: “They are all as bad as each other” start seeing things in shades of grey.
Fighting Trump
And that in turn means stop perpetuating the misogynistic myth that somehow the life, the work of a privileged, rich kid who spent his life screwing people and somehow managed to sell that as superior business skills is the same as that of a working woman, who for the past 40+ years has worked consistently hard, to the best or her ability, building coalitions to achieve things she believed in e.g. health care.
Practical, pragmatic hands on politics is dirty work, and as the fight for Obamacare showed, bloody and bruising. But you are talking about a woman who was dedicated to working for healthcare reform 20 years before it became in any way a possibility.
It is not the same. They are not the same, and pretending they are, has got America in this fine disaster, which we will hopefully, somehow, all survive.
