Well.....what can I say about this mess......
I hate to say that everything I predicted to happen....happened....and then some. I was pretty pissed after the election. Probably good that DU was down because I would have blown up on some. But I've calmed down and took a lot of thinking about it. I won't get into Trump much on this thread. I want to first address the election, the Democratic party, and why we lost. It's important before we put this in the rear-view mirror. Sorry if it is long, but its a lot on my mind.
First off. I was right. I have to say it because I was attacked for it constantly. I predicted the Florida loss. I've lived here almost 30 years. I know it's politics and I know how it swings. I had a bad feeling about it for weeks. Yet I was called a "concern troll." I was being told by DUers who live in California that Hillary would win Florida by more than 5 points. 
Michigan I thought could be vulnerable, especially after the things Michael Moore and others were saying that knew that state. He was mocked for suggesting that. People called Michael Moore crazy for suggesting Trump could win Michigan. Why was it that Hillary voters refused to listen to people like us?
So how bad is the loss? It's Bad! Prepare yourselves....
After this election, the Republican party has more power than it has ever had in their history going back to the days of the Civil War. They now control 67 of the 98 state legislative houses. That is more then twice what the Democrats control. They control both legislative houses in 32 states. They now have 31 of 50 governors.
While Obama has been President, the Democrats have lost 919 state legislative seats. That is the biggest loss in an 8 year span in the history of the nation. Democrats are also now nearly extinct in the South. Now the GOP will also control the White House, the Senate, and the House. They have preserved their conservative majority on the Supreme Court for likely at least another generation. They now control literally EVERYTHING about the American government.
Those of you who have been gloating about this so-called "imminent death of the GOP".....just shut the fuck up. Seriously, I told you that talk was bullshit. I dont want to hear about that fantasy shit anymore.
We just had an election where the GOP nominee suggested we should build a wall on the southern border. We had an opponent that suggested ON VIDEO that it's OK to grope women and grab them by the pussy without consent. We had an opponent that wants to ban all Muslims from entering the country. YET....despite all that...Donald J. Trump got more voters from Latinos, women, and African-Americans than Mitt Romney!!! Believe it, ladies and gentleman. Because that's reality staring at you in the face. 53% of white women in America voted for Trump. Hillary won only 87% of Afican-Americans, Obama got 93%. Trump got 5 points more Latino voters than Romney did. 58% of Cuban-Americans voted for Trump. I remember 1 week before the election I posted an op here suggesting Cuban-Americans were breaking hard for Trump. I was attacked.
I wont go on a multiple Hillary-bashing threads here beyond this because its pointless now and everyone is getting sick of it. But I feel some things are very important here and need to be said in order to understand why this party lost. I will say that she made some very BIG mistakes. She focused more on attacking Trump than on the issues. The same mistakes many of the GOPers made in the primary against Trump. She did not step foot in Wisconsin and ignored Michigan until it was way too late. She did not engage the rural Democratic voters in Pennsylvania. Go to these towns and communities in the rural parts of the midwest...they are hallowed out. Entire industries are gone. Property values have crashed. They can't afford their Obamacare premiums anymore. People there who are lucky enough to have any job haven't had a raise in years. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine were wasting time trying to woo Latino voters in Arizona and Florida...states she lost anyway.
These voters in the midwest place blame the loss of their jobs squarely on free trade. Trade deals like NAFTA that Hillary's husband signed into law. Trade deals like TPP who Obama was trying to jam down our throats. Not only that, but Hillary supported expanding guest worker programs like the H1B visa program that companies like Disney were abusing in order to hire cheaper foreign labor.
No matter how you want to look at it...the Democrats were on the wrong side of the jobs debate. They ignored the midwest and rust belt region. They ignored the economic hardships of middle class. Trump was smart enough to see that opening. And he dove right through it. Suddenly these voters who the Democrats were ignoring found somewhere else to go.
Something has to change. The party doesn't appeal to voters outside the big cities anymore. 1/3rd of Democrats in the House are from only 3 states...CA, NY, and MA. New York and Los Angeles is the only reason Hillary won the popular vote. The Democrats are a "big city" party that is out of touch with rural America. The leadership is lazy, rich, and corrupt. They don't understand the middle class. They are too obsessed with winning on identity politics that they are sacrificing the core values of this party. We are going to sacrifice the concerns of American workers in the midwest, who's jobs have vanished, in order to pander to other groups we THINK will be a bigger player in future elections. That is identity politics right there. And its why we lost.
Anyway, that's my take on the conclusion of this fucking mess. Go ahead and attack me all you want. I've been attacked and spit on all year long for speaking the truth. Im used to it.
Finally on one last note, I will say that I recognize Hillary's campaign meant a lot to many women out there. And it's now gotten lost in all this crazy transition talk. But even though she didnt make it to the Oval Office, she started to pave a new road towards it that wasn't there before. There will be more women who will come along and try to finish the road and learn from the mistakes Hillary made and be more prepared for the unique struggles she faced during the campaign. The first female president is alive out there somewhere. It'll happen someday. You just have to view 2016 an attempt to learn from.
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Thank you for spelling it out so very clearly.
Didn't need all that many of them either 
, damn shame it wasn't well understood why the polls kept converging after each of the Nazis fuck ups.
