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In reply to the discussion: Clinton Apologizes For Critique Of Trump Voters [View all]erpowers
(9,445 posts)I do not always agree with the things Hillary Clinton says, but she needs to stop apologizing. How often do you see Donald Trump and his supporters apologize? They have said far worse about Hillary Clinton and her supporters and never apologized. Clinton needs to realize that Trump's supporters are generally the people who go around apologetically claiming that liberal, blacks, and Hispanics are not real Americans. Hillary Clinton never claimed that Trump's supporters were un-American.
Did Donald Trump ever apologize for claiming that President Obama was not born in America? Did Donald Trump ever apologize for calling for the death penalty for young black and Hispanic men who were accused of raping a white woman, but later found to have not committed that crime? It has been reported that weeks before the Central Park Five were accused of raping a white woman a white man was accused of raping a woman, but Trump did not call for the white man to be given the death penalty. Did Donald Trump ever apologize for allegedly refusing to rent his apartments to black people? Did Donald Trump ever apologize for lying about Mexican immigrants?
No, the Democratic Party should not become like Donald Trump and the Republican Party. However, it and its members need to stop apologizing when they make the right statement. Hillary Clinton's deplorables comment has been proven right? It is likely that her latest statement will be proven right. Donald Trump did not win working class Americans. Donald Trump won Americans who were angry that America was changing. He mainly won the people who did not like having a black man in the White House. He mainly won people who did not like Mexican immigrants. He mainly won people who did not like the browning of America. He won mainly the people who wanted to keep America a white man's country.
Look at his slogan: Make America Great Again. We all knew what that slogan actually meant. If you were not upset with the direction in which this country was going Make America Great Again was likely not a good slogan for you. Why? Because America was great under President Obama, even economically. Therefore, we all knew what that slogan was really all about. He was telling his supporters he was going to take this country back to the days that they liked. He was going to take us back to a time before black men could become President. He was going to take up back to a time when America was much whiter. He was going to take us back to a time when minorities were not treated equally.
That is what a large number of his voters were voting to have happen. Many of these people were not voting for economic security, or for jobs. They were voting to be brought back to the time they liked.
Also, look at the definitions used to describe the parties: liberal vs. conservatives. Liberals are people who support things changing. Conservatives are people who oppose things changing. It can be argued that if you oppose change you are not looking to go forward into the future.