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Democrats in denial over Trump defeat, voters say: ‘Haven’t learned the lessons’
(www.theguardian.com)
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Dems lost, because Americans are idiots. There's no deeper meaning. Americans elected a con man for the second time. Con man, second fucking time. They knew how bad he is, because he already was president, yet they still voted for him. It blows my mind. No other explanation is needed, Americans are literally the dumbest pieces of shit on the face of the planet. I wish them the worst. They deserve what's coming to them.
That is true, if you ignore voter suppression, winner take all, the electoral college, disenfranchising felons, redistricting, and all the other bullshit.
Of course Americans still need to step up and solve the problems, but if all you can do is blame the victims ... to put it nicely ... it tells us a lot about your personality.
The fact that he won the popular vote this time makes most of those irrelevant. Not the voter suppression and felon disenfranchisement.
Although one felon is super-duper enfranchised!
There is a way in which you are right. Americans elected the worst possible candidate who will make drastic changes that hurt them in the long run, but also that’s because the system in general, including democrats have been unwilling to make changes rapidly enough to address the major problems of the country. So, they took fast, bad change over slow, mediocre good change.
If they were such idiots and so easy to manipulate then the responsibility still falls on the democrats for fumbling and such a supposedly easy demographic
The problem with the democrats is that they are too honest and don’t play dirty.
They should have lied and told the public what they wanted to hear with no intention of actually honoring their promises, just like the republicans.