She was only the most qualified, competent candidate to seek the office in a lifetime, but she wasn't perfect, which totally explains why the people you defend just had to vote for a Nazi apologist and sexual predator. She ran on "identity politics," but not the the right kind of "identity politics" that Trump did. She had the audacity to speak to the concerns of the poor, people of color, and the marginalized.
She didn't build a campaign around coddling the egos of privileged white men furious that they only earn 4x the average income of African Americans, that they only are in the upper.03% of global incomes. She dared to talk about poverty rather than cater to white male entitlement, and that made her imperfect, so imperfect that those voters just had to vote for a slate of racist policies.
Well, now that you explain it, it makes perfect sense that those people voted to deported 800,000 dreamers and countless more immigrants. Of course they had to put a billionaire con artist who promised massive tax cuts for the rich and corporations. Of course they just had to vote for a Nazi sympathizer supported by legions of White Supremacist who decried "Jew SA," and talked about how they would burn Jewish reporters in ovens. Voters bear no responsibility for their own choices. They were forced to vote to deliver the country to fascism because Hillary wasn't perfect. The "identity politics" made them vote to punish the dreamers, African Americans, LGBT Americans, and women. How can they be expected to tolerate a party that represents all Americans when they are the only ones who matter? How dare the Democratic Party act like Democrats when their responsibility is to recapture the days of the KKK, the party of Orvil Faubus, when the only "identity politics" was one of segregation, which is exactly what Trump and Stein voters chose.
I wonder what the remedy is to ensure that Democrats never again address the concerns of anyone who isn't white, male and propertied? I know. Make sure those identity politics Americans can't vote. Voter disenfranchisement, the very cause now being championed by Nomiki Konst: replace primaries with caucuses, the system with the lowest turn out, the system most prohibitive to voters of color---those "identity politics" Americans who just don't vote right. Make voting impossible for shift workers, the elderly, the disabled, the poor, and women with childcare obligations. Take a page from the GOP. Target the exact same voters for the exact same reasons. If you can't win with the electorate as it exists, make sure only the right sort of people can vote vote so white men don't have to be saddled with the horror of politicians who dare to speak to the interests of people whose lives just don't count--the majority of the population.
Yes, Hillary wasn't perfect. She has the wrong chromosomes, and she failed to cater to white male resentment. Of course those who voted for racist policies had no choice. And now, they have no choice but to ensure that the poor, shift workers, the disabled, elderly, and people of color are purged form the Democratic primary process, so that they can finally get an electorate that knows how to vote right.
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