The electoral vote today showed why Democrats lose

[BainsBane]

34. Case in point

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You repeat a narrative that whether you realize it or not was created in order to turn govt over to the GOP and put it directly in the hands of corporations. Trump has already started to raid the national treasury. They are planning to sell off park lands and turn SS and Medicare over to Wall Street. The Sec of Ed doesn't believe in public education; the Sec of Energy wants to abolish the Dept; and the head of the EPA is a climate change denier who has repeatedly sued the EPA. And yet you still manage to believe that swill about Clinton as a corporate lackey, evidence be damned. She got campaign contributions from Wall Street--like Obama, FDR, Teddy Roosevelt and countless other presidents in history. Yet somehow only Clinton was untrustworthy.

The GOP managed to convince you the real problem was that a Hillary Clinton raised money by following the campaign finance laws they had set, that she was culpable for Citizens United, a case about a corporate film smearing Hillary herself. That's quite a propaganda feat. They convinced the Busters to vote against reforming the system and instead turn it over to billionaires. It's ironic that people talk about the white working class voting against their interests, when that is exactly what the Busters did-- against their interests and self-proclaimed values, all because they decided that disliking Hillary personally was more important than progressive policies.

Here is the other point. This entire narrative about what you think the party is supposed to be is based on historical mythology. When was the party not tied to moneyed interests? Under slavery, Jim Crow? This supposed to be in your head never existed. But the function of that rhetoric is to convince people to fragment so the GOP privatizes everything, and that is exactly what that propaganda has accomplished.

You didn't trust her because the GOP convinced you not to trust her, and they succeeded because people are disposed to see women as liars. People who claimed to care about progressive policies focused entirely on animosity toward one woman. It's not true that "nobody trusted her." 65 million Americans aren't nobody. The people you claim you want the party to represent supported Clinton in the primary and the GE, only now you dismiss them them as nobody.

"Too much footsie with rich shits", whereas FDR and JFK who were born into extreme wealth are heroes. Those who joined in smearing Clinton decided policy didn't matter. You and your friends didn't like her, and the Busters decided that personal animus was more important than reforming campaign finance and regulating Wall Street. And now the national treasury is about to be turned over directly to Wall Street, and the GOP couldn't have done it without the hard work of the so-called left in making absurdly false claims that there was any equivalency between Clinton and Trump.

The GOP wins with the complicity of the self-identified left who the Republicans convince to work against their own interests. Even as Trump is implementing unprecedented cleptocracy, you continue to repeat the nonsense that got him elected.

This is why we are a party of losers. The GOP doesn't have to do anything but plant some internet memes and watch us destroy ourselves.