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Originally Posted by The Dastardly One
That's not why Trump got elected. It certainly didn't help but it's largely an overarching narrative that is given far too much weight. From my novice understanding, people tend to turn to populist, brutish candidates during times of economic distress.
While "The Left" fails in their inability to understand and communicate with blue collar folk (such as simple fan for instance), there could have been a chance with Bernie Sanders. But with Hilary Clinton, you had a smug, charisma vacuum who was such a bad candidate she didn't even do rallies during her campaign.
"The Left" has always been holier than thou thinly veiled racists (like Noid) who can't deal with their own white guilt and yet they've held power plenty of times. There's many more factors that got Donald Trump elected beyond the likes of Jon Oliver and virtue signallers on Twitter.
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Bernie Sanders would have won easily, but democrats wanted to show how progressive they are by getting they first woman elected president.
Problem is like you said, they picked a very unlikable untrustworthy woman because they just assumed they would win. It shows how full of their delusions they were by how shocked they were when Trump won.
Even if I agree with a lot of the Democratic party points of view, I could never call myself a liberal because I just can't argue points the way liberals do. They take everything way too far.
Pit barrel made a post in the other subforum, sarcastically I assume, about banning all white privilege and that completely illustrates the point. Being upset at people for not being tolerant of everybody, so let's get rid of them because I don't want to tolerate them.
Just say if somebody is being racist they should be banned. Don't make it about them being "white privileged" cause that is disliking them based on their race.
That just doesn't make the argument in any kind of logical way, and sadly many liberals spew just as much hate as any other racist.