Facts Are What People Think 2
Zandar cites a study that shows over half of Republicans thinks that Donald Trump won the popular vote, when in fact it lost it by approximately three million; he finds this disconnect from reality disturbing. A snippet:
It was never about jobs, or the economy, or the facts. It was about assembling like-minded individuals into an army to destroy those unlike them. It’s the definition of a cult.
The Cult now in fact rules the entire federal government, and most states. When the reality of the damage that they cause settles in, the Cult will simply convince America that the Others are the problem. The Others have to go. The rest of you? Join the Cult or else.
December 19, 2016 at 10:25 pm
I don’t think it would have mattered at all if HRC had talked about the economy. I got the impression she did speak more specifically when fighting Sanders but I could be wrong there too.. I think she was destined to lose. In hindsight, never as good as her billing, more like a super factotum for the establishment.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/progressive-trump-vote-214534
Not really a cult of whatever type person.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/wall-street-2016-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-213931
Or her, months earlier.
Anyway, a month or so ago I was taken aback, astonished really at how far apart we are on these matters. But now not so much.
December 19, 2016 at 11:06 pm
I don’t know that we are far apart, but I have to vote in the real world, and, in the real world, any Democrat is better than every Republican.
Would Hillary Clinton have been my ideal candidate? Likely not. But my ideal candidate was not in the race. Hell, I don’t even know who my ideal candidate might have been. It certainly wasn’t Bernie Sanders, for reasons I expressed here–he would not have been electable.
Thirty years of Republican lies about the Clintons certainly didn’t help.
During the campaign, as I got to know more about Hillary Clinton, my opinion of her rose. It’s not that I ever thought she was perfect (because who is?), but I realized that she was not the evil bitch that has been portrayed by Fox News and its acolytes and mindlessly broadcast by corporate media toadies.
And you know that I think the fuss over her emails was crap. I addressed it often enough in these electrons.
Frankly, when enough time has passed for definitive analyses of what happened this year, it will be plain that Republicans’ embrace of racism and white supremacy was what turned the balance.
The South has risen again, and darkness beckons.