It has nothing to do with sexism. Just stop.

People are angry because Washington is seen as a highly exclusive and incestuous power bubble that actively purges outsider families. Can you see why family members also seeking power would be seen as problematic?

No one believes that.

I love everyone saying "that is why we lost". Each different.

This election should be a learning experience, not a time to get defensive.

This shit again??

qualified woman for President (a woman that, I might add, got 2 MILLION more votes than the Orange Fucktrumpet).

Sexist bullshit is sexist.

the USA breaking up now.

The polarization is so great, we can't talk, we can't compromise.

If the Republicans have their way, they will hurt and damage citizens today and generations to come.

"Well, they won," seems hardly adequate.

This loss hurts so much because all the signs said that we were finally maturing as a nation. We were shaking off the disaster that was initiated by Reagan, ie: the "everyone for himself mantra" that sought to divide us and that blamed the victims of our inbred bigotries for their ills. Not only had we made impressive progressive strides under president Obama, but it looked like the country was finally getting it: Obama's approval numbers were through the roof and it seemed like the American people had had it with the Obstructionist Congress and were going to hand the Senate back to the Ds. That meant that the SCOTUS would take a hard turn toward progressive-ism that would operate for decades. The nation was becoming less religious as well, and the Religious Right was losing power in the nation and in the R Party to boot.

And it all went down the toilet overnight.

It hurts because we old timers have been through decades of R-created shitstorms whose main purpose was to enshrine existing prejudices into place and to operate on a "war against intelligence" footing. We thought that finally, finally everything was going to pay off, that the years of fighting the good battle would see that decisive victory for liberalism that we know the country needs if we are to "become a more-perfect nation."

Didn't happen. In fact, it did a 180° and we're now headed back to the dark ages.

Fuck.

I agree with all your other points, though.

While democrats want a perfect candidate.

I think with just a few short words you nailed a major problem we have. Excellent point.

They go crazy in primaries trying to push their ideal candidate on their main issue

In the general election they 'come home' and vote for the Republicans because whoever they are running is closer to their ideal than our candidate... And hardly consider anything except that issue.

Guns is a good example. There are millions of gun nuts who will show up and vote Republican every single election just because of that issue.

Examining GOTV...the campaign could have helped that along in Wisconsin, with one or two visits.

But the trusted data showed they did not need to.

Examining the Veep pick...turns out VA is fairly solidly 'Blue', and probably could have been won without Tim Kaine. Warren, Sanders, Julian Castro...those are picks that could have energized the voters.

I could go on...the details aren't too important, but it was simultaneously a flawlessly run, yet poorly conceived of, campaign (and actually it would have been a well conceived of campaign against a normal candidate - it just needed to get scrapped when it became apparent Trump would be the opponent). President Clinton seemed to feel the winds of change, as he referred to Hillary as a 'the best Change Maker I've ever known' several times during his convention speech. But few others did.

I'm new here, and I learned after one post to not even suggest there was a problem with the campaign. So I kept my lips zipped. If the atmosphere that we had on this board was in any way reflective of the campaign as a whole, the outcome isn't surprising at all.

And welcome to DU.

(don't keep you lips too zipped)