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Originally Posted by LanceUppercut
This is complete horse####. I know of some "blue collar" people who are smarter than 75% of the "white-collar" professionals working in my building. Your job does not dictate your intelligence.
The smugness of the the liberal elites and looking down their noses at the "blue-collar" peons is what got you Trump. Keep it up and it will come to Canada too. It is already happening in other parts of the world.
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CorporateJay probably could have phrased that in a much less arrogant and condescending way. Its interesting though because his remark and your reaction is a prime example of what I think happened in this election
At the end of the day, Hillary fell into a corporate shill elitist to much of an insider picture. Parading out celebrities and members of the high political classes at rallies probably did a ton of harm to her, when Trump was basically accusing her of being a elitist member of a old boys government that wasn't serving the people well. A lot of the voters probably felt that she was too arrogant, too hooked into the system and corrupted by it and a huge example of the split between an elite class and the people that work for a living and feel that they're falling behind everyday.
I really don't think as I look at her campaign that the Democrats thought their playbook through very well.
From arrogance in terms of how they stumped, to basically feeding Trumps narrative, they did everything wrong and whether that failure in leadership came from Hillary or from her campaign team will be an interesting read when all of the books come out describing one of the biggest failures in US election history.
For all of the stuff that Hillary has done in her career, the exclamation mark is going to be this and she's going to be labeled as a failed Democrat who had and fumbled the White House.