Warren: The Next Step For Dems Is Single-Payer Health Care

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52. That was not the argument

It was about pondering the 'why' of those that didn't.
(Although I think this place would be better served to allow a little more diversity of opinion)

And specifically on the left. We all know the reasons from the right. A lot of hate radio/TV brainwashing, Russian trolls, fake news, along with some degree of racism, sexism, etc.

But this kind of resentful ostracization, even though IMO I think they should have held their noses, if that is what it took, and voted Democrat anyways this time, is more harmful than helpful.

This attitude reminds me of the Bush administration refusing to even enter a conversation on the 'why' 9/11 happened. The suppressing of the idea that it wasn't about a smaller group of extremists carrying out that attack because of decades of resentments by even the moderate middle eastern person by the US and the West's past and ongoing colonial like treatment of their countries and resources. That it became only about revenge and not about finding root causes and addressing them.

Or like the vitriol against the Green Party for even daring to run in an election. Hey, if the Greens are taking away votes from Democrats, maybe its up to Democrats to take a look at the Green platform rather than simply calling them names and demonizing them.

Anyways I'm getting off track. But its almost like Trump voters who voted for him because he WAS a racist misogynist, are more respected than those on the left that voted Green, or couldn't vote because no one in either party appealed to them. And those are precisely the voters that we could get back, not the die in the wool brainwashed wingnut Trumpsters.