between an election following a deeply unpopular and unsuccessful GOP president and an 8 yr Democratic president? The last time a Democrat won in such a situation was Harry Truman. Do you even know when that was?
If voters were so concerned about big money, WTF did they elect Trump? Polls also show the majority of Trump voters think unemployment went up under Obama. That doesn't make it true. It means the epic level stupidity of voters is destroying this country. It fact it already has.
Before you pretend to have some sort of expertise for the Democratic Party, learn a little American history.
That you equate the election of 2008 with 2016 with absolutely no awareness of the different contexts is astounding.
And that you and others keep arguing about this like it has any relevance to what we are facing now shows a bizarre disconnect. Are you paying any attention to what Trump is doing? How you and others can even imagine that the political situation will be similar in 2018 or 2020 astounds me. You can remain mired in the past and repeat every meme about the election you heard on television, but it is absolutely irrelevant to anything.
Anti-Democrats had an opportunity to stand up for policies designed to reduce the influence of money in politics and chose instead to vote against them. We've seen an enormously important issue of campaign finance reform reduced to dishonest rhetoric and personal attacks--somehow used almost exclusively against women and black candidates--while they no longer show any interest in changing the laws that make the situation possible. Those who claim to be too progressive to vote for Clinton chose to instead promote the election of someone who has appointed five billionaires to his cabinet and is using the presidency to enrich himself. What people claim to care about is irrelevant. Actions are what matter. They worked to elect a government by and for billionaires, and that is exactly what they got.
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