2016 Postmortem

Rural Democrats is what the thread is about...and the fact that the Democratic Party has ignored the severe economic suffering of the rural communities while fighting for things like legalizing recreational marijuana. Of COURSE those communities are fed up! If you need help and one group is ignoring you and offering no assistance and someone else comes in and says they are going to bring back your jobs when you NEED jobs then you are going to listen. Don't you realize that these DESPERATE people want SO BADLY to believe those jobs are coming back that they tuned out all the negative crap associated with Trump? Stop calling them all racists because they are NOT. The rural south does have more racists, I'll grant you that, because that's where I live now, so I do see it. But you know what...there are a lot of minorities in the south who also assume that people are racist when they aren't. It has happened to my own family. Christ, we have black family members, hispanic family members, LGBT family members, etc. The only people I have a problem with are people who are assholes...and I base it exclusively on their behavior. People need to STOP assuming things about other people and groups because assumptions aren't usually accurate. Now I think Bannon is a racist piece of crap and that he planted lots of dog whistles that DID set out to appeal to racists...but I believe that faction of Trump supporters is in the minority. I'm utterly DISGUSTED by the rise in hate crimes and Trump's rhetoric was disgusting. HE is a vile piece of shit. Some of his supporters are vile pieces of shit. Most of his supporters are just desperate for change and made a very foolish choice because they were either very ill informed, don't pay attention or were angry that the Democrats didn't do more to help them. Many of these same voters DID vote for Obama, so calling them all racist is pretty dumb.