It is really easy to forget that Hillary has flip flopped on LGBTQ issues here whole life. Not to mention her being in bed with big business, special interests, being a war hawk, etc. etc. Take a deep breath and let's see how this plays out. Based on his past views (he was basically a moderate Democrat his entire life), I think we will be presently surprised by Trump. Yes, he had to run to the far right to win the primary, but there was no other way to do it in our current two party system and with the GOP having its contingent of tea party lunatics.
As a leftist I was hoping the only good thing to come out of Trump winning would be Hillary supporting Democrats (like Megan Burbank) would see the need to move the party away from neoliberals like Hillary to more progressive candidates who would be much more effective in addressing the growing economic anxiety in this country.
Was I wrong.
Not only did Megan Burbank not get it, she managed to to pull out the dumbest fucking reason why Hillary lost, that it was third parties that caused Hillary to lose.
Fortunately this argument falls apart immediately, if you consider that:
-If you gave Hillary every vote Jill Stein got, Hillary still would have lost the Electoral College.
-Turnout for Democrats was incredibly low. If she couldnât get her own party to vote for her, how would she have gotten Greens and Libertarians (who already hate her)?
-Independent voters hated her too.
-If there were no 3rd parties most of those same people wouldnât have voted or probably voted for Trump.
-How do you expect people who idolize Ayn Rand and complain about big government to vote for someone like Hillary who is the de facto face of the political establishment? That makes no sense. Hillary would have never gotten all or even half of Gary Johnson's supporters if he didnât run.
-Finally and most importantly, none of those votes are owed to Hillary. You donât get to claim them. They were for candidates with much different platforms than Hillary and the fact that you think they belong to your candidate speaks volumes to just how much of a privileged white woman you are.
You know who lost the election for Hillary? Hillary. She was the one on the ticket. It was Hillaryâs job to make her argument to be President, not Jill Steinâs or Gary Johnsonâs job to do it for her. She was a weak candidate who had a history of being cozy with Wall Street, supporting trade deals that helped big business at the expense of labor, sitting on the board at Wall Mart and doing nothing about their bad labor practices, and flip flopping on every important issue of the past two decades. She was an establishment candidate in an anti-establishment election. She is the one to blame for Trump winning, not anyone else.
Youâre better than this Merc. If you truly are a left leaning paper, start by not publishing articles like this. The election results were caused by economic anxiety and establishment politicians ignoring working class voters who have suffered from globalization, job automatization and declining union membership, not âprotest-voting and insidious left-wing misogyny.â
1. Pleasantly
2. So says the dude who has consistently said that he didn't support Trump and would not be voting for him.
3. Do you think there are any Trump supporters that would say "I think we will be PLEASANTLY surprised by Hillary" if she won the election?
4. You've taken cowardice to an all new level JTR. I mean really, who's afraid to anonymously admit who they're really voting for on the internet?
Was I wrong.
Not only did Megan Burbank not get it, she managed to to pull out the dumbest fucking reason why Hillary lost, that it was third parties that caused Hillary to lose.
Fortunately this argument falls apart immediately, if you consider that:
-If you gave Hillary every vote Jill Stein got, Hillary still would have lost the Electoral College.
-Turnout for Democrats was incredibly low. If she couldnât get her own party to vote for her, how would she have gotten Greens and Libertarians (who already hate her)?
-Independent voters hated her too.
-If there were no 3rd parties most of those same people wouldnât have voted or probably voted for Trump.
-How do you expect people who idolize Ayn Rand and complain about big government to vote for someone like Hillary who is the de facto face of the political establishment? That makes no sense. Hillary would have never gotten all or even half of Gary Johnson's supporters if he didnât run.
-Finally and most importantly, none of those votes are owed to Hillary. You donât get to claim them. They were for candidates with much different platforms than Hillary and the fact that you think they belong to your candidate speaks volumes to just how much of a privileged white woman you are.
You know who lost the election for Hillary? Hillary. She was the one on the ticket. It was Hillaryâs job to make her argument to be President, not Jill Steinâs or Gary Johnsonâs job to do it for her. She was a weak candidate who had a history of being cozy with Wall Street, supporting trade deals that helped big business at the expense of labor, sitting on the board at Wall Mart and doing nothing about their bad labor practices, and flip flopping on every important issue of the past two decades. She was an establishment candidate in an anti-establishment election. She is the one to blame for Trump winning, not anyone else.
Youâre better than this Merc. If you truly are a left leaning paper, start by not publishing articles like this. The election results were caused by economic anxiety and establishment politicians ignoring working class voters who have suffered from globalization, job automatization and declining union membership, not âprotest-voting and insidious left-wing misogyny.â