2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why all the navel gazing and tortured reflection? [View all]Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)vote in Florida, not the polls. Though the exit polls also indicated a Clinton win. That said I'm not talking about the recounts, well aware that is going no where. What I'm saying is all of this pontificating about white working class, millenials, rust belt, etc. is silly. Fact is she won the popularly vote by 2.5M and counting. It is my belief that she lost key states due to vote rigging...but without missing a beat you are saying lets start thinking about the Senate in '18...and then the 2020 primaries true progressive yada, yada...that's all well and good I guess but unless we do something about voter integrity we'll lose those too. Do you get it now? We're never going to kick some ass unless we do something about election integrity...we have a dirty, dirty system and it is only going to get worse. We are moving toward a permanent GOP majority party because they hold the keys at the local level. That is the fight we need to focus on, not being arm chair democratic "strategists" and yes navel gazing...that and $3 will get you a medium coffee at starbuck. What we need to focus on is local elections and start to win those otherwise it is going to be a long winter indeed.