We are doomed

[Uponthegears]

As long as the "Hillary lost because of racism, misogyny, xenophobia, an Islamophobia" becomes the new theme at DU.

There is do doubt that the 61 million people in this country are either racist, xenophobic, misogynist, Islamophobic, or a combination of all four. If you cast your vote for Donald Trump you are either these or stupid beyond all belief.

(Aside here, if anyone among are midst cast such a vote, you deserve everything that happens to you. I couldn't care less. I am a black man who has spent his entire life fighting for the most vulnerable of people of color and they are going to be imprisoned, executed, disenfranchised and shot down in the street under Trump.)

The fact is, however, that Trump received approximately the same number of votes (possibly even fewer votes) than Mitt Romney. There was no groundswell of FIRCs flocking to the polls carrying Trump to victory.

Instead, there was Hillary Clinton drawing the least number of Democratic voters of any Democratic nominee in over two decades. Think about this. Hillary Clinton drew fewer voters to the polls than a black man with a Muslim name who said he was going to provide a path to citizenship to 10 million undocumented workers. It's worse than that, however.

In Leon County, Florida (where I was in 1999-2000, trying in vain to get the Party to get behind our dramatically underfunded efforts to restore the constitutional right to vote of tens of thousands of convicted felons), for example, Hillary Clinton drew 4% fewer black voters to the polls (even with the help of the most inspirational and transformational president in history) than JOHN KERRY. That kind of failure was repeated all over the country. While we stood behind her, as we always have percentage wise, she offered so little that even many of us stayed home (and that's even with not just our President's help, but people like me out there working the streets for months).

As for white folks, again, a black man with a Muslim name, promising amnesty, running less than 10 years after 9/11, drew millions upon millions more white voters to the polls (and won hundreds, perhaps thousands, more predominantly white precincts) than Hillary Clinton.

Hillary and her campaign lost this election. Until we start to talk about how they lost it, we are doomed