11-09-2016, 02:04 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-09-2016, 02:22 AM by Eric the Green.)
(11-08-2016, 11:30 PM)Dan 82 Wrote: The Midwest wouldn't be close if Sanders had been the nominee.
I think that's right. The Democrats bet on Hillary because she had the qualifications and the support of the leaders. She won the primaries fair and square. But many Bernie supporters either thought that Hillary cheated (just more of the ignorant conspiracy theory out there, and I should say it's also urban, I stand corrected on that to a degree), or that she wasn't enough of a change so they stayed home. Voters wanted "change," but what is the change?
There is "anti-globalism." Nationalism is on the rise; it's the end of the globalist dream of 1989.
The people of Syria will continue to suffer badly. I feel so sorry for them. They will have to leave their country, and somehow find homes in other places. We won't be helping them at all. Many more will die.
Trump is an entertainer who inspires confidence in his strength. Hillary was perceived as too weak. It comes down partly to that primal American emotion. The USA is not ready for women leadership at this level.