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    5 months ago

    “If Poliece voted for Hillary in 2016…”

    Hillary Clinton is/was not obliged to anyones vote and should have run a better campaign to attract leftest by doing bare minimun actions like supporting trans people or election/education reform. She also could have chosen a different candidate for running mate rather then the complete personality void that she ended up with as a sop to some imaginary “moderate conservitive” that was simpathetic to humanity over their net worth.

    But she didnt. I wish she ran a better campaign as well, we may have been better off with her in office in 2016, but the issues that trump brought into focus in our society were not caused by him. They have been here the whole time.

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      5 months ago

      The whole “you didn’t vote for Hillary so Trump is your fault” is a typical liberal statement. Just like how their solution to plastic pollution wasn’t to regulate the producers, but to get everyone to recycle things. And then if an individual didn’t recycle that person was bad, but they ignore what the massive industry is doing.

      Same with health care. Their solution wasn’t universal coverage, it was making sure every individual had to buy health insurance, and then fining the individuals who didn’t. No action against the massive, inefficient industry causing most of America’s health care problems. Nope, it was passing the buck off to individuals yet again.

      The Clinton campaign sucked. It was so dull the news shows would rather show an empty Trump podium than a speech by her. I thought the reason Clinton won the primary was because people wanted adults in charge who knew what they were doing, but clearly they didn’t because she lost to a reality TV show con man.

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        5 months ago

        I thought the reason Clinton won the primary was because people wanted adults in charge who knew what they were doing,

        And I think she won because she worked out a deal with the super delegates from 2008 when Obama “stole” the nomination from her.

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          That is completely ridiculous. The superdelegates have never changed the results of the primary ever, not once. She had no secret arrangement, you can literally see the votes for yourself. She won at the ballot box. We can talk all day about whether or not the party elites put their thumb on the scale financially and messaging-wise (they did), but the superdelegates did not make one lick of difference, nor was there some grand conspiracy.

          Now did you know when it was clear he was going to lose Bernie said he was going to try and win via superdelegates? Curious about your thoughts on that one.

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          5 months ago

          While that might be the case, the line from the Clinton campaign on why they won was because they were the grownups who could actually beat Trump, not a bunch of petulant Bernie Bros.