I wrote in Sanders. I wouldn't and couldn't vote for someone like Clinton, who I believed had rigged a system against Bernie even when he won the popular vote, who has shown that she cares more about her convenience than the security of American intelligence information through her e-mails, who probably had a hand in the 5-6 'suicides' of people supposed to bring a case before the DNC for election fraud. I wouldn't vote for Trump but I certainly am not crying obnoxious tears over him winning. So yeah, shame on me Mr. High and mighty. Look inward and see the bullshit that your party put us through. The loss is no one but the DNC and Clinton's fault. Should I list it?Red government is here to legislatively erase me and I have no goddamn clue how I'm going to survive it. Until last night, I'd never known the feeling of watching my future crumble to dust before my very eyes. I went from confidence to...let's phrase it as abject hopelessness, even if it was much, much worse than that, in the course of a couple of goddamn hours.
If you were one of the grown-ass people who wrote in Harambe, shame on you. If you wrote in Bernie Sanders after he expressly told people not to do so, shame on you. If you could have taken the time to vote but didn't, no matter what pathetic excuse you may front, shame on you. I'd say this shit in Showdown's scholastic chat as well, but being on college wifi I have the wonders of people who dick around and get banned and thus get me locked for weeks on end. I'd also rage at the fact that we again had to deal with the spoiler effect of third party candidates and their voters, but I suppose Johnson (Pikachu-Beach-Wedding-Officiator-Forme) is just as valid a candidate as any, though the repeated spoiling effect makes me want to see runoff voting more than ever. Also, looking at the map for the 18-24 age group and then seeing that again, that age group had horrid turnout, I again (though for the first time here) pose the question: ELECTION DAY A NATIONAL HOLIDAY WHEN, PEOPLE!? Sorry to get so worked up and abuse the fuck out of formatting but I don't have a future anymore so I have particularly little care for such mores at this point.
- She alienates Sanders voters hard at the DNC, takes away their signs, silences their voices. DWS goes from head of DNC to advisor for Clinton after being shown to be part of the disgusting filth that rigged the primary, essentially spitting in our face.
- She campaigns for the white collared and blue collared workers, college students and 'educated America'. She NEVER tried to appeal to the working class lifeblood of this country like Trump or Sanders. You say "uneducated", I say "working class". Trump destroyed her in this demographic because she couldn't give a shit about people who don't go to college. Also what a fucking travesty you all call Trump out for bigotry and then divide and conquer by class warfare. Did you MISS Bernie's message?
- Oh Miss "I'll unite all Republicans, I can reach across the aisle". What exactly is "Basket of deplorables" and "Irredeemables"? Didn't you learn from "Obama Boys" and "Bernie Bros"? Apparently not. Slander the only people you can win over, get your supporters to shout it down. That worked really well.
- This is the one thing I'm happy about: This bitch was going to sign through the TPP. Again, did you MISS Bernie's message? Worst trade deal that can possibly exist for WORKING CLASS AMERICANS. Forget if it's good overall (it isn't, it's a relationship mess with China+Russia), you just claimed that those working class Americans AGAIN aren't important to you.
- She lost Michigan, a state Obama SAVED. They should've been blue as the deep sea. You know why they weren't? Hey, we saw it in the primary. How can they trust a politician after Flint? How can you trust someone SO UNCARING after your people were literally attacked by politicians for a few extra funds. Bernie/Trump gave a shit. Clinton... looked like the status quo. She lost ALL KINDS OF BLUE STATE from WI, MI, Penn.
- And the demographics you should've worked for? That Keystone pipeline, take a stand against it. You already messed up with TPP. Give Latinos an actual reason to vote for you, not "Trump is big and scary".
Really, Trump would do well to get some good political advisors in his cabinet. Get some populists who know the system. Specifically, if he could coerce Ron Paul to advise him, it'd be a huge win for this campaign going forward. I'd say Sanders but Sanders wouldn't accept anyways, not out of malice but I think he WILL be filibustering some ideas. The issue with democrats is they act like Republicans are morons. That's probably the primary reason they lost this election. Republicans have run this country more often than the democrats and we always have a centrist leader, regardless of left/right in the election.
I'm sticking in America, I've trusted every president I've been alive under and I still wonder if the Donald we saw yesterday isn't the Trump I've been looking for for two years. What a stupid thing to say, "I'm moving to canada"... you realize that Republicans run this country more often than not, right? It'll be interesting to see if the Republicans try to re-write themselves a bit to try and standardize themselves as the 'party of progress/success' in the next four years.