General Discussion

I don't buy any of these arguments that America ISN'T a predominantly conservative nation. If it wasn't, this election wouldn't have been close enough to be won by an unqualified shit like Trump on a technicality. The fact that a fuck like Trump got 60 million votes . . . the fact that even FIFTY million people thought "President Donald Trump" was a great idea in the first place . . . Sorry, we're a country straight up filled with dumbasses. I'm not even going to apologize for calling someone who thinks a billionaire's going to solve the problems billionaires created by hiring more billionaires a dumbass.

I still think it's because too many Americans think they're one lucky break away from BEING Donald Trump instead of one lost job away from homelessness.

That doesn't mean the Democratic Party's absolved from looking in a mirror. We ignore and marginalize progressive voices, we don't hire the right people to run the ground game, we're horrible at messaging, we think the Clinton blueprint is going to perform like it did in '92 and '96 forever and, sad as it is to say . . . all of the issues we're better performers at, all of the diversity . . . it hurts us.

Republicans threw out their moderates and became the lockstep, racist pro-wealth xenophobe party. It works so well, we cede 135 votes right off the bat. We're all things to all people . . . some moderates aren't on board with that. In the big tent, there's going to be wars between the actual left and the cast-off moderate Republicans. It leads to votes for third parties that are either more right leaning economically than Republicans or parties with people like Jill Stein ruining them.

We're not a party with a solid economic blueprint, which is what everyone's caring about. I don't think either party is going to help the coming job dearth (which moderates cheer and makes reasonable people see disaster) and that needs to be addressed, but relying on a party that thinks giving more money to wealthy people is a feasible solution . . . it tells me our work is becoming more than we can handle.