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In reply to the discussion: Attention Liberals & Independants [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Why the hell didn't your friend manage to understand that electing two strong progressives to the presidency, both of whom were determined to reverse the course of the past 35 years, one of whom was our first black president, and the other was to be our first woman president, PROMISED HUGE CHANGE. He let himself be suckered bad, and no doubt also suckered himself badly.
It's not that he couldn't have seen if he'd opened his eyes. For 4 years Hillary showed herself to be a very different kind of SecState from all the men before, working for progressive change around the planet, admittedly especially to advance rights and wellbeing of women and children in a hundred nations, instead of trying to build the usual peace in the middle east legacy for herself. Was it that focus that caused her intensely progressive, people-oriented agenda to be so casually dismissed? The usual dismissal of "just women"? How did he not realize what earth-shaking change that was? To invest in raising the status and self sufficiency of the women who were raising the next generation around the planet?
And that's only ONE aspect of how Hillary was the coming change people wanted and threw away.
People who still can't get their minds around the simple but huge reality that voting for her would have meant voting for a big change in how things are usually done are still ready tools for propagandists. Your friend was not just a fool but a big, blind fool.