(December 15, 2016 at 12:26 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: This is such crap. They didn't give you an exciting presidential candidate. They pushed a centrist policy wonk with ties to Wall St. but who by every measure is leagues better than the dumpster fire we have now.
People need to be inspired by their candidate to stop an international train wreck? To show up and vote for Democratic down ballot candidates to shore up liberal policies in their state/national governments?
No. Most liberals are straight, educated white people who are supporters of a lot of liberal issues, but will have no real change in their life if things go bad for minorities and LGBT people. It's not that they don't care, it's that it really won't affect them, and there's not a lot of urgency. Which is why they have the luxury of waxing poetic about Hillary's flaws and the DNC while Donald Trump is appointing Steve Bannon.
Ah, yes, if I only had more concern for the rights of minorities and the LGBT community, I would have voted Hillary. This is why it's pointless explaining to Clinton voters why you didn't vote for her. They've made up their mind about why.
And saying she simply has "ties to Wall St." is disingenuous. After the Great Recession, when it was discovered that Goldman-Sachs helped tank the economy, Hillary became their champion. When most Americans were struggling to put their next meal on the table, she saw it as an opportunity to get in bed with the people that purposefully ruined the economy to make money.
BTW, I did vote down ballot for Democrats.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
