(November 9, 2016 at 6:09 pm)Rhythm Wrote:You are wrong, it was about helping all of them, rural included. But she didn't tout their other social values, so they didn't want to listen. Her policies would have helped them more than Trumps.(November 9, 2016 at 5:34 pm)Aroura Wrote: I can only tell you that you’re wrong. This is not about losing an election. This isn’t about not winning a contest. This is about two very different ways of seeing the world.As it turns out, that wasn't, at all, what her campaign nor the dems were about. The votes should make that plainly apparent. A voting bloc powerful enough to not only reject the truth of that statement and even make it's believers doubt it....handed someone else the presidency...because they do not feel, and demonstrably have not -been- included, and yeah, they also happen to be a bunch of bad things - but apparently so is a significant portion of the people you might not have expected to go trump (the blue wall of the north, college educated voters)...and it's not as if being [insert darkest trait here] made them wrong about having been excluded, even if they've been wrong about -why- they were excluded.
Hillary supporters believe in a diverse America; one where religion or skin color or sexual orientation or place of birth aren’t liabilities or deficiencies or moral defects. Her campaign was one of inclusion and connection and interdependency. It was about building bridges and breaking ceilings. It was about going high.
Rural america is a wasteland.
Trump offered them literally nothing, an empty plate at best, and taking more away from them at worst, and they opted for that because of the social divide.
Vague offers of bringing jobs back, kicking out those damned illegals stealing their jobs, and more sever trickle down economics. They want to blame everyone, the illegals, the government, the liberal elite, so they voted out of blind anger. Well, we'll see how their wasteland looks in 4 years. Pretty sure it will have expanded to include even more of us.
This was a campaign of fear, and it worked wonders.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
