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Originally Posted by SEC_Chick
You're right. It was supremely selfish for Hillary to put her personal thirst for power and influence peddling ahead of the country in a race she couldn't win.
You can't call people selfish for voting their conscience. And you fail to understand that if people were voting Johnson, it was at least in part because they don't like Hillary. She did not persuade them or win their votes. She received almost 7 million fewer votes than Obama. That's on her, not the Gary Johnson folks.
ETA: I hope that you all are prepared to hear repeated the arrogant words of some jackass: Elections have consequences.
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The twisted irony is, I believe the trickle down economics solution to the 2008 recession, a GOP policy followed by Obama, is the root cause of this. You can't provide a recovery to exclusively 5% of the country and expect those left out to remain happy. You also cannot suggest to them that you can make it all okay for them with safety nets that cannot be afforded.
Sadly, what's missed in all of this is, No One Can Bring Back the Jobs. We are beyond silly cures like protectionism. And immigration is not the problem. Those who believe they've just sent the ultimate hand grenade to Washington will soon enough learn there's nothing but a facade left to detonate. Trump blowing up the Establishment does not a jobs recovery make.
I'm seeing a glass half full because I think he'll be good for infrastructure and he'll attempt to cut deals with Democrats (which he was until two years ago). I'm also seeing what might be the mother of all Pyrrhic victories by the "left behind" classes of the country.
