(November 12, 2016 at 9:47 am)LastPoet Wrote: What was the abstention percentage?
This is what the GOP will shove in our face and fucking lie about. If this election were a landslide mandate in favor of conservative views, they would have won the popular vote which they did not, and the electoral college would be much higher than it was in their favor.
The rust belt sent us a message, not the right not the religious. Minorities in some sectors such as Hispanics did show up. But blacks didn't as much. I'd only warn them to know that it was NOT Obama that let them down, or the rust belt for that matter. It was 8 Years of corporate and right wing obstruction.
WE HAVE THE NUMBERS, we really do. And if you look at progress in our nation's history progressives always win long term. The parties flip in tactics sure. But our human empathy is liberal.
Corporate America is really fucking slick at marketing. Walmart is now putting out an add that seems to be pro military, pro religion which is fucking bullshit. They and most of the corporate world vote for the economic right and fuck the worker. But all they have to do is show some people in uniform, claim to be unifying, and poof, far too many people don't see that they don't give one fuck about the society they get rich off of.
