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IronLionZion

(51,035 posts)
30. Since they are against diversity and feminism
Thu May 11, 2017, 03:07 PM
May 2017

I would hope for Kamala.

I thought Hillary was going to win big. A lot of folks did.

Cultural anxiety is real. And calling people racist and sexist probably doesn't help them to be less racist and sexist. There are a lot of changes in America including the nature of many jobs and education, and where it's located. The rust belt lost people too, not just jobs. Liberals move and adapt. Conservatives tend to own land and dig deep roots and dream of some imaginary past that never existed.

A lot of the problems they are blaming on immigrants, have more to do with corporations changing the nature of their business models in ways that people who can't or don't want to adapt are left out. Automation and new technology are major culprits in the need for less labor in many jobs. I doubt that any immigrants are stealing coal jobs. Or feminists. Maybe the environmentalists are just filled with spite? But people don't want to acknowledge the role of fracking and cheap natural gas.

Just like they won't acknowledge that millions of people who look like me are born in America, legally, as US citizens. Sure, they act as if the enemies of America are infiltrating our government and burrowing into the deep state like dirty brown moles who need to be fired. But really, they don't want competition for jobs that are reserved for US citizens. It's gotten so bad that our military's training started to include diversity components to teach people that someone is not suspicious just because they are brown or have a difficult to pronounce name. Sometimes suspicious people look like Snowden, Manning, Robert Hansen, Aldrich Ames, etc.

Americans are not white. Whites (not mixed, not Hispanic) are about 60% of US citizens now and decreasing. Some people delude themselves into believing this can't be true, because they are afraid. And this also happens on our side with well-intentioned liberals who also think the default American is white. It baffles some people.

And some are baffled by feminism and don't know what to make of it. So they vote against the woman who forgot to stay home with her grandkids and bake cookies and knit.

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HRC's negatives were baked in at 50-plus percent BeyondGeography May 2017 #1
they'll still have the voting restrictions problems + Russian interference problems La Lioness Priyanka May 2017 #4
I agree that we should always err on the side of vigilance BeyondGeography May 2017 #6
While I like Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren NewJeffCT May 2017 #20
It's awesome we have a new catchphrase for for racism + sexism! It sucks we need one. bettyellen May 2017 #2
i just say white male supremacy because it's accurate and angers a lot of people La Lioness Priyanka May 2017 #9
I thought that she would make it. Remember WhiteTara May 2017 #3
i did too. I also worry that because some people are so DELIGHTED to blame her for losing La Lioness Priyanka May 2017 #5
VRA means what? brush May 2017 #12
voting rights act La Lioness Priyanka May 2017 #13
I agree, LLP. brer cat May 2017 #15
Actually, she had no real opponent in the primary karynnj May 2017 #26
Do people really get it? yallerdawg May 2017 #7
slowly. some people. La Lioness Priyanka May 2017 #8
It's also worth noting hurple May 2017 #10
and won the popular vote La Lioness Priyanka May 2017 #11
she's my girl all american girl May 2017 #23
In spite of everything. And still... ehrnst May 2017 #34
Excellent OP, La Lioness.. Cha May 2017 #14
K&R mcar May 2017 #16
Is "cultural anxiety" kind of like "racism"? world wide wally May 2017 #17
almost exactly like La Lioness Priyanka May 2017 #32
Was the Bundy Occupation in Oregon a staged Wag the Dog event, Ferguson, et.al. likewise? L. Coyote May 2017 #18
And maybe we can begin to realize that it wasn't invented for her. Orsino May 2017 #19
k&r Starry Messenger May 2017 #21
Agree 100%, LLP! BlueMTexpat May 2017 #22
Still focusing on the wrong question..... HenryWallace May 2017 #24
Lol. This is a perfect example of 'well, actually ...' La Lioness Priyanka May 2017 #25
k+r Blue_Tires May 2017 #27
I'm still pretty fucking angry over it. ismnotwasm May 2017 #28
me too. La Lioness Priyanka May 2017 #29
Since they are against diversity and feminism IronLionZion May 2017 #30
i would love either one of them, though i may have a softer spot for Kamala La Lioness Priyanka May 2017 #31
What we could have had... (nt) ehrnst May 2017 #33
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