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In reply to the discussion: As a person that lives in Ohio in a formally blue area this is why [View all]MiddleClass
(888 posts)It's your right to blame them for that and agree with you, but I understand why people feel the way they do.
If it is as you say JUST racism and woman hating, why did they vote for Democrats all their lives?
They voted for, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, food stamps, WIC, financial aid in education, Hillary care, Obama care, the auto industry bailout, stimulus, and overnight, they turned into racists for the richest 1 percent? I beg to differ, despite lying through his ass, he went to the Rust Belt talked about their problems and offered a solution. Now we all know he was full of crap, reluctantly, even them, but it was a simple choice between, the law and order President and the Goldman Sachs lady is going to turn America over to them people. Now, I don't agree with it, it's stupid thinking, but just try to understand why they were thinking that way. Remember in America you are constitutional right to be willfully stupid and vote.
Remember the other side of the coin, how many were stupid and stayed home in the Rust Belt? The combination killed us. All the talk about snowflakes, misses my point, something was happening and we have to understand what and why, not right and wrong.
I am 100 percent talking about why we lost the election, despite winning the popular vote by a large margin. I am not talking social issues on right and wrong, I am talking how social issues and want to do about it affects the other voting public. Bill Clinton was screaming to Hillary's campaign about this very issue. I wonder why, remember not right or wrong, why?
Remember, these people were not deplorable, but they did willfully go and join those deplorables and vote the way they did. We can't change their vote, but we can change what drove them there