Bernie Sanders Voters Helped Trump Win and Here's Proof

[Rural_Progressive]

40. Of course it had something to do with sexism

It also had to do with racism.

At the risk of getting slammed here I will put in my 2 cents worth.

Politics in this society is all about perception and not much about facts. We can all agree that Clinton had been falsely demonized by the right for over 30 years, right? What some of you have trouble understanding it doesn't matter that the demonization was false. What matters is a significant portion of the electorate bought the BS hook, line, and sinker and as a result Clinton came into the election with a huge amount of baggage attached to her.

While it has taken Donnie O to bring the low lives, scum suckers, and deplorables out of the shadows and from under the rocks they frequent, anyone who paid any attention to the dynamics of this society knew they were among us. Now those good ol' boys and gals were mightily pissed off that an uppity black man had been running "their" country for 8 years and they were just spoilin' for a fight. The Democratic Party served them up one on a platter.

I am and always will be an FDR democrat, I abhor the centralist and corporate orientation the current version of our party has embraced. I hope we can turn it back into the party of the working people of this country. That said, I will never understand why the powers that be in the party chose to ignore the risk they took in nominating a woman, any woman actually, much less one with a boat load of baggage, at a time when the nation was a polarized as it was and obviously still is. I truly believe that Clinton was highly qualified and deserved the opportunity to be president. I also know that life isn't fair and that sometimes bad timing undermines what is right and should happen.

The 2016 election was one of those times. The election was the DNC's to lose and for a variety of reasons they chose to misread the state of the nation.

I'm fine with any of you going after me for all the reasons I've already heard and read. When you get done giving me hell, take some time, and if you haven't read it check out a book called American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America by Colin Woodard. When you've finished it, get back to me and tell me you're still surprised this election was mishandled and then stolen from we, the people.