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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Keep losing? The Democrats lost one election, after being in power for eight years.
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The Republicans also control congress and the senate. The U.S. election is part of the same anti-establishment reaction that saw the Brexit leave side win. In both cases, pundits and pollsters were astonished.
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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
This whole "unless you liberals change, it will be hard-right conservatives forever" is nonsense. Hell, 10 days ago the story was "unless the conservatives change, they'll never win again".
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Do you really think only hard-right conservatives voted for Trump? So 200 counties that voted for Obama in the last election all of a sudden became KKK strongholds?
And the Republicans also have issues. They need to appeal more to Latinos and urban voters. They can't count on always running against a candidate with as tepid support among Democrats as Clinton.
Why is the centrist POV so difficult to understand? Why are so many otherwise intelligent people in the grips of binary, polarized thinking? Moving to an extreme doesn't counter the zealots on the other side - it fuels them.