Padawanbater2
Well-Known Member
Even if every single Trump voter in California voted for Clinton, she still would not have won. Are you familiar with how the electoral college works?She would have won by a very more impressive number.
Trump lied to those gullible "working class" voters. Shit's not gonna happen, they'll come back around. What's your excuse? Let it all burn down? And then in will come the 'real' progressive finally? Give me a fucking break yo. Right after all kinds of damage has been done
I agree, Trump did lie to the majority of his voter base. But as it turns out, you don't have to be honest or tell the truth to become president. So a candidate that ran on fake populism beat someone most people expected to win who ran on empty rhetoric and platitudes like stronger together! and I'm with Her!.. I wonder how a Democratic candidate who ran on real populism and policy positions like universal healthcare and college and an investment in domestic infrastructure and a hike in the minimum wage would have done..
They will not come back around if all the Democratic party has to offer them is "See! Isn't Trump a BAD GUY!? WE TOLD YOU! You should totally vote for us!". The Democratic party has nothing to offer these people because their donors don't want universal healthcare enacted, they don't want stronger unions that are able to negotiate things like wages or paid maternity leave by law, they want obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shitty jobs with the lower pay, longer hours, reduced benefits, the end of overtime, and the vanishing pension that disappears the moment you begin to collect it, and now they're coming for your social security money. They want your fuckin' retirement money. They want it back, so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.
So, you will forgive me if I choose not to give my vote to someone who accepts $600,000 in bribes from those same assholes who've raped the American dream for every generation to come. Yeah, Trump is absolute garbage, but it's the system you help perpetuate that got him elected, not me, not Sanders supporters. Sanders supporters want to change the system and make it better. Turn it into something that's actually held accountable by the people. Something that actually benefits the people, works for the people and is most importantly, made up of the people.
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