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Originally Posted by kevman
So... what's your point??? OK, unemployment is down. But that doesn't show underemployment, being underpaid and more importantly the total acceptance to look down on a very large portion of the american population. You can't chose your sex or race or gender and we've been taught that as a result you are not to discriminate those groups. Well, you can't chose the economic sector your born into either yet it's 100% totally socially acceptable to belittle this class.
So now we have a class that is underemployed and under educated that is absolutely being left behind and following an election where they spoke up we simply dismiss them as being dumb and wonder what went wrong?
It didn't matter if Trump won or not. This divide is growing and will probably still continue to grow for the foreseeable future. So we can continue to label this group as bigots, racists, sexists and idiots and hope they go away or we can have a dialogue about how to fix the issue.
It's often been stated that people will continue to vote for policies that hurt them and as such a class that is most in need of social safety nets are willing to vote Republican. Yet during the campaign what did Clinton do to speak to this group? What policy's did she have that benefited this class? And more importantly how did she attempt to communicate these?
I don't have the answers - I wouldn't even know where to begin, except it probably doesn't involve Trump, but dismissing a large block of the voting public is probably not a good start.
For instance, what good could something like this possibly achieve in starting a constructive dialogue?
So who are the real "idiots" here? |
People weren't even listening. I watched two debates and while there were millions tuned in, it wasn't nearly as much as those tuned out. Those who much rather watch Game of Thrones, football or play Xbox than be informed on their future. Clinton specifically mentioned progressive tax brackets on the upper class and focused entirely on building the middle class. She specifically attacked rich guys like Trump in her debates.
The message was there. But the voters "didn't trust her" because of emails, because of policy changing, or whatever else that was entirely superficial, unintelligent or perhaps even bigoted because she was a women. Whatever the reasons, yes, the idiots are those who voted for the Rob Ford of America to run their country and think somehow everything is going to get better for them even though he's the embodiment of everything they stand against