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In reply to the discussion: Trump GOP Announces Plan To STRIP 10 Million People Of Food Stamps. [View all]Hekate
(90,645 posts)...because otherwise I don't know what to say to you. The members of this board are politically engaged, to say the least. People who wanted to essentially sabotage the Party and candidate by voting 3rd party were shown the door.
Hillary got 3 million more votes than Red Don. Her message got across to the majority of American voters, as I am sure you will agree. Whatever flaws there were in the campaign, she won the vote.
Every time I look at "what happened" to the outcome, I keep bumping up against the FACT that we got fucked. We fought back as best we could, and we still got fucked. Trump is beyond being a "useful idiot" for Putin, he is a fucking Trojan Horse. The country got invaded, and Hillary and the rest of the Dems were the first casualties in the war. DU itself only survives because whoever took the site down was possibly only toying with us.
We were walking down the street on a sunny day going about our business when we were attacked. We got fucked.
THAT was "your and my role in getting here."
Like all survivors of assault, people here have good days and bad days, and some folks have been damn near suicidal. But we are survivors and we are hauling each other up as best we can, because of the magnitude of the work that must be done. What we don't need is any more of the blame that has been leveled at us as survivors, or the self-blame that comes with the territory. All evidence considered, more of it each day, indicates that the FACT that we got fucked over was not our fault.