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In reply to the discussion: The Democrats have a working class problem - and it's by no means confined to working class whites. [View all]Jakes Progress
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Besides a small group of deniers, most of the legit media and researchers tell us this election was unprecedented in the amount of social propaganda and electronic thuggery. So you compound the propaganda because it worked on you. You still buy the weak Hillary stuff, and the lie grows a little more every time it gets repeated. It becomes self-fulfilling.
This is why the ban on rehashing the primaries is a bad idea. People need to realize that they've been had. I know that victims of a scam often don't even report it because they don't want to admit it, but if the Democrats that spouted (and continue to spout) the "weak" or "crooked" or "corporate" Hillary lies don't come out and look at the reality of the situation, it will happen again and again.
Russia (with help from donnie's boys) rigged our election. They rigged the Brexit vote in Britain. They tried in Germany and France, but those countries saw what happened here and the populace (at least the ones who think) didn't fall for the lies. Now we are already seeing attacks on the leading liberals. Again, it comes from both sides.
(And not to rehash the primaries, but Bernie (God bless him. I started out as a supporter) did as well as he did because he benefited from the attacks on Hillary too. He knows it. He fell for it too, but seems to have figured that out. That and the media needed to let him go without scrutiny because they needed the competition in the primary to gin up the ratings. No one would tune in to watch the obvious nominee give another speech.
We have to realize that this was not just another election. We have to recognize that we were owned.