so, now smugness is a liberal trait? sigh
May the othering, BEGIN!
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Margins are a thing as well (Rubio in FL).
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I always viewed that comment as taking the country back “from Democrat policy makers who are wasting our tax dollars”. I don’t think Republicans actually believe that blacks, gays or muslims are running the country. Then again I’m not a Republican so I can’t speak for them.
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Maybe a little? I’d like to think that I’m a halfway decent human being, but at least part of my fear is very genuine fear that they could come for me next.
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I’m white, male, and straight, and still manage to have the sense that the assholes who won in this election do not represent me at all, though I do have much more of a buffer. I know I’ve got a lot of privilege so I worked extra hard to do what I could to try to persuade ostensible Trump backers that Clinton was a better candidate, envelope stuffing for the local candidates, etc. I couldn’t do the phones/door-to-door, though, just can cope with that. I mostly regret that I didn’t give the Clinton campaign money.
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Mostly I regret not having a time machine and telling HRC not to f**king ignore WI / MI.
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Except the whole winning the popular vote.
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Okay, clutching at straws here. Amongst the many, many bad things that will result from this.
Trump did mention some positive things during his campaign, like investment in infrastructure, the VA. I don’t really believe he’ll do anything, but he might. The absolute worst of his ideas won’t happen. Trump won’t actually enjoy governing much, so he probably won’t do much.
Third-way liberalism seems to be dead. Maybe the Democrats can move away from that.
There’s only one vacancy on the Supreme Court right now. And the replacement can’t really be worse than Scalia.
And in 2018, the Democrats should be able to make gains in the mid-terms. At least they’ll turn up to vote this time.
Maybe by 2020 they can dig up a positive candidate. Am I right in thinking that redistricting will be based on 2020 results?
By lots? By enough to overcome the Electoral College? Nitpicking is a bit pointless. She wasn’t a popular candidate. Not enough people wanted to vote for her. End of.
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How in the hell did she lose the Midwest? Those aren’t supposed to be swing states. They’re supposed to be blue states teed up nice and easy for her.
Washington DC was constructed on lowlying swampy wetlands. Historically a series of ‘watergates’ were installed to control drainage and dry some of theland, later filled and used for construction of the modern city. The “Watergate Hotel” is located in proximity to one of these drainage structures, thus the name.
The analogy is to letting fetid water out of a swamp by a swift action such a breaking a dam. Those using it are making an implicit comparison between the growth of washington DC and the growth of liberal policies over the same period. The notion is to shrink the government as one would shrink the land area covered by a swamp if you were to drain it suddenly.
It’s actually a great analogy, for those it suits. It does not suit me.
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By “lots” doesn’t matter when the charge is no one likes her.
Also, I found out my childcare will likely be deported. MAGA indeed.
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To be brutally honest, I think that our having the privilege of not wanting to have an authoritarian misogynist racist as President makes them see educated and economically secure and reasonably content* liberals as “smug.” Their vote was a collective attempt to slap that look off of our faces.
[* all relatively speaking]
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This was part of the problem. Much of her life’s work was focused on on working with charities and organizations to help the poor and disenfranchised, and esp. helping women and children in need. She’s done a massive amount of work there, but this was ignored, and she didn’t do enough to break the stereotypes. Still, she was the wrong candidate. There was a 25 year, multi-billion dollar propaganda campaign to smear her that managed to turn off all of the right and enough of the left.
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I’m not going to comment every race, I wouldn’t be able to. Besides, every state has its peculiarities. The fact is that a lot of Obama states swung away pretty hard this time, while coincidentally being where Clinton struggled in primaries against Sanders.
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Yeah well I keep getting email forwards from my Trump supporting mom about how the muslims
are invading the government so I really do think for many it was more than just democrats.
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I guess destroying the country to show us up was worth it then.
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On the plus side, I am looking forward to see how this affects South Park’s episode tonight…
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Fuck them. They’ve been anti-clinton for years.
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Maybe she should have left that part out of the speech.
Dehumanization doesn’t change your opponents’ minds. I know that when someone tries to push me in a direction by insisting that I don’t know what’s good for me, I’m always inclined to pull in the opposite direction just out of sheer stubbornness.
I had a door-to-door salesman stop by a few days ago, and once it became clear what he was selling, I stopped him and said, “Look, I want to do the research, and see if you’re the best person to obtain this service from.” After that, the pressure increased, and every bit of pressure pushed me away from choosing the salesman to provide the service, even as I acknowledged many of the valid points he was making. If he had said, “Fine. I’m confident your research will tell you good things about us, so call me when you make your decision. Even if you choose someone else, I want to know what we can do better”: that probably would have weighed towards choosing him.
If I had to choose a word to describe his attitude — that he knew what was best, and that I couldn’t be trusted to do the research and to make the decision for myself — that word would be “smug.”
There’s far too much promotion of an “us vs. them” attitude on both sides. I’m as guilty as anyone of “them-ing” Trump voters in this election. And when you create a “them,” you build yourself and your group as superior, and that makes the “them” group inferior. And it can really show in smugness.
I’m not saying that kowtowing is the proper attitude, at all. But dismissing a large segment of the population as inferior, as “deplorable,” because you can’t understand how a good person would make the decision that they’re making, is not productive to winning the people who do understand them (if not agree with them) to your side.
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