2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Trump received the most votes of any .... [View all]BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)and appeal to those Republican voters. That's the message of this past and disastrous election.
Democrats and PoC are being systematically eradicated from the voting polls through Republican voter suppression laws, and facing undemocratic acts like unnecessarily long lines, FAR less polling stations, less voting machines in populous areas, egregious JimCrow-style voter suppression corruption, fake news sold as truth, unnecessary voter ID's, a Republican-complicit U.S. media, and shorter voting days. All these conspired to throw the election to DumbTrump and the worst Republicans ever to run for Congress who, in the past, wouldn't have survived.
Republicans clearly believe that only Republicans are allowed to vote, so in order for Democrats to win any seat in the House, Senate, and the White House ever again, it appears we have to bow our heads to the Republican voter and hope they'll be so kind as to vote Democratic (which they did in 2008 and to a lesser degree in 2012--because the economy was crashing).
Our last chance to win any election on the Federal level was this past one--and too many Liberals decided that their fee-fees were more important than the path President Obama had set us on toward prosperity for all and voted Jill Stein or Gary Johnson.
Why is this not clear to some people?