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Who do you blame for Trump being in the white house?
I blame the liberals. They see themselves as tolerant but the reality is that they are only tolerant of people that think like they do. By not including certain people, they have created their own opposition. Because of their extremism, they have radicallized the other side. For every action there is an equal and oppoite reaction. That which you resist, persist.
The Democrats did not try to include the white, male, blue collar, worker who (regardless of leading economic indicators) is not doing well. Instead, the Democrats fought for the rights of people to chose what bathroom they want to use and ignored the plight of people strugling to put food on the table.
Liberals think with their heart. Which is why their brain has atrophied. They are thus unable to comprehend that rural America is strugling economically. That is way too many words for them. So they overly simply it and instead believe that it has to do with racism. And those liberals who do not believe it has to do with racism believe that it has to do with bigotry. And those liberals who do not believe it has to do with bigotry believe it has to do with stupidity. They reduce everything to one word explanations. And they are very arrogant in their beliefs ;)
But it's fair only if you do the same and let others make the choice as well, so I have to make you allow others to exercise their choice if you do so.
blame the liberals. They see themselves as tolerant but the reality is that they are only tolerant of people that think like they do. By not including certain people, they have created their own opposition. Because of their extremism, they have radicallized the other side. For every action there is an equal and oppoite reaction. That which you resist, persist.
Doesn't seem like you have no idea about any opinions, decisions or choices.
I don't "blame" anyone, but I thank liberals for it. I would have preferred to see Sanders and Cruz on the ticket, but instead, both parties offered up candidates that were not the best choices. For me, Trump was the lesser of two evils (by quite a wide margin). Even now liberals are still shooting themselves in the feet with the constant tantrums.
Dude: Sanders is a socialist. He stands for "free everything".
The majority of people who pay income taxes know that nothing government provides is actually free. Bernie wants to re-slice the pie, Americans decided to bake a bigger one instead. Soooooooo ------ Wrong π
And Trump is a moron. He was elected primarily because Clinton is universally hated.
The left will always vote for Sanders, whilst many of the left abandoned Hillary.
Hillary's career is peppered with scandals whilst Sanders' is not. A huge reason why Hillary had little support is because she was crippled by her past. People don't trust her. People trust Sanders.
Sanders is a likeable man all around; you can tell he genuinely cares for the country and its people and wants to make a difference.
Americans didn't decide to make the pie bigger, they decided to not keep it the same. Sanders would be an alternative to that, and the fact that he's smarter than Trump, kinder than Trump, more political than Trump, calmer than Trump, and has pretty much all the opposite characteristics of Trump's bad ones makes him a far better candidate.
Being a socialist does not matter if you have a plan which can justify and back it up, which Sanders did.
If Sanders was a better candidate, a better speaker, with a better message, why did the left nominate Hillary? Could it be perhaps that Sanders appeals mostly to the hard left?
Sanders does believe what he is saying. Socialism means more government and less freedom. Socialist Utopia is a dream that has never actually worked, anywhere, anytime, ever. Please don't claim that Bernie's "Democratic Socialism" is any great new path to Utopia. It's simply an acknowledgment that socialism needs capitalism to pay the bills. Without the prosperity that capitalism provides, socialism could only starve.
A bigger pie is a strong and vigorously growing economy. Which provides more jobs and higher pay. That is what was voted for last November.
The DNC was rigged against Sanders. Surprise, surprise - Trumpsters constantly go on about Hillary's emails but don't actually read them when they're released.
Also a surprise, a Trumpster doesn't even know what socialism actually is, but rather forms his own definition based on the abuse of it by totalitarian regimes in the past.
Socialism gives more freedom than capitalism. Capitalism restricts the people with money. Money is our prison. Socialism reduces are dependency on money.
I am not a socialist, nor am I a communist, nor am I a capitalist. I believe that all of these ideologies are inherently flawed and cannot work on their own. What we need is a mix of them - socialism and capitalism working together, to create an economy which gives equality and freedom to all. We cannot live in luxury without capitalism, and we cannot live in class equality without socialism.
The US' hatred of communism and socialism is completely unfounded and ridiculous. It's based around fear of communist Russia, who were your enemies during the latter part of the 20th century. That is over now, and your irrational fear has no solid ground.
You did not vote for a better economy, you voted for a man who promised a better economy. There's a big difference.
Trump has no plan, no idea what he is doing. If you really believe he can give a better economy - whilst simultaneously wasting billions of dollars on an unnecessary wall - then you are insane.
Tell me - what is Trump's plan for the economy? Has he actually told you, any of us? Saying "I will make a really good economy, guys!" is not a plan.
Put down your dictionary and open your eyes to the total failure of Communism in Russia, China, Cuba, etc. Socialism is simply " Communism Light."
Neither generate a decent standard of living for the masses. The poor man, in the USA, lives above the standard of most of the other people in the world. Why --- Capitalism ---
Put down your dictionary and open your eyes to the total failure of Communism in Russia, China, Cuba, etc. Socialism is simply " Communism Light."
Clearly you cannot pay attention (or read). I am not a communist. I do not support communism. I do not support socialism, either, but I support it in small amounts. Conjunction with capitalism.
Where have you been during the rollout of these plans?
Am I missing something here? My point still stands. All Trump is doing is saying "I'm going to do this" but he's not saying "This is how I'm going to do it".
He has plans, but he doesn't have the plan to implement it.
Well you just keep on insisting that socialism is cool without any evidence to support it. And continue to claim that Trump has no "How To" plans for the economy, even though jobs are already up due to Trump. I will leave you to stew in your fantasies.
I remember watching the debates and the impression I got about Hillary was that she was petty and nasty , when I watched Trump and Hillary in action they looked like a pair of bickering school kids and you're on the money Clinton is universally hated
You should pay attention there Progressive Nick the American people cast their vote and defeated Hillary Clinton at the ballot box. Barack Obama and his failed presidency was the death nail for Hillary. Tell me how many defeats the Progressives endured under the Obama Regime ! You care to share what you should know ?
Come on, really? I know for a fact that if Bernie was running against Trump he would've won. But really? Smarter? You shouldn't have a nice president, I've had enough with these cuck presidents. And our founding fathers made it very easy to become president so politicians and lawyers wouldn't dominate it. Also what does calmer matter? And look at the Soviet Union. Vietnam, Venezuela, Cuba, even East Germany. Socialism doesn't work, it ruins countries and lives. It sounds good on paper but when countries try it, it always ends up bad. If you want socialism then get out of the United States, we the people will never let socialism reign over our country.
Half the liberals listened to the polls, while too many of them believed the untrue-to-overblown "alternate truths" being spread by the alt-right and Putin. We (or rather they that were so easily duped) on the liberal side are to blame. BUCK_UP! We can still make it a 4 yr mistake .... that is if he don't push that button when som ... er... everyone pisses him off! :-0
You Progressives believe in the polls ! You live and die by polls ! Your believed polls sent Hillary into obscurity AL but man are you Progressives Sore Losers !
The "sore loser" is Delusional Donald. WE have accepted that he won. It's HIM that wont accept that HE lost the popular vote. If it weren't for the electoral college he wouldn't be President, but, that's the rule, so be it. Polls? they are interesting, but often wrong. I go by MY feelings, not those of a pollster. Wrong again. You don't read people well at all. You should follow Banner's advice to the media.
Was my spelling that bad? I SAID: "WE have accepted that he won."
",,,,,,elected fairly by the Electoral College" is wrong. The Electoral College IS NOT FAIR. It can not be fair as long as Gerrymandering is allowed. Conservatives have tailored the voting districts so that it's almost impossible to get a vote that does not give them the advantage! Voting districts should be as close to square or rectangular as the geography will allow, until then we will not have a "fairly elected President". I have "accepted" 13 Presidents even though I didn't agree with some. THIS one I cannot ... will not, accept! He is scum and a danger to America.
The Progressives were beaten by their "Boy King" Obama. The one they so praised and loved. Look at the defeats the Progressives took under the Obama Regime. Truth and Reality is not a world a Progressive can exist in when it comes to facts. If the Progressives want to blame anyone for a Trump victory then they better take a look at "The Failure Obama" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's obviously the Liberals. They couldn't stop calling everyone racist and sexist, with a country with mostly white males, calling all white males sexist and racist, you're gonna lose. Also Hillary stupidly only went for California, New York, and Florida, but Trump won nearly every other state, while most of them don't have more than 15 votes, it adds up, and that's how he won. Also, the Democratic party cherry picked Hillary from the dems, instead of going with what the people wanted, Biden and Sanders. Now if Bernie Sanders had won the Democratic general election, Donald Trump would have lost. But ya liberals were stupid and supported a crime ridden, cheat canadit, who never had a chance in the beginning. It is 100% the Liberals fault. The Reason Trump was elected is because of Hillary, is because of BLM, is because of Feminism, is because of real racists, because Hillary blamed everyone but herself, because people are tired of liberals, because whites want to feel like they matter again, because of AntiFa, and because of Me and 162 million others Americans. We won because you fucked up. So stop calling all Trump supports, or in general everything, racist, and fix up your political party, then maybe, just maybe, you'll win the 2024 election (cause we all know if Trump runs again there is no chance anyone else will win).
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, again and again, and expecting a different result. If the liberal strategy did not work in 2016, what makes you think it will work in 2020 ;)
I don't chalk it up to EITHER liberals or racists. Those are just your word choices in this debate.
I chalk it up to the middle and lower class people of the red states falling for flash and swagger and the enduring myth that the rich business elites actually care about them and are on their side.