Hillary Clinton: How Much Dumber Will This Get?
Hillary Clinton: How Much Dumber Will This Get?
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Opinion | Hillary Clinton: How Much Dumber Will This Get?
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Please tell us how dumb we are again, Hillary. Your contempt for working people is palpable, and it is not limited to those deplorables.
In my book, you have become the barely-lesser of the evils we have been forced to choose from.
Fade away, please.
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Hillary, Trump won because people were sick of the entrenched insiders like yourself. Your opinion means nothing.
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In part.
It can't go unacknowledged that bigotry was very involved in the outcome of 2016.
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Certainly. It was a myriad of complexities.
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Yeah. When voters were given a choice between maintaining the status quo versus fascism, voters couldn't tell the difference until after fascism was implemented.
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Even if we didn't now know for a fact due to Donna Brazile laying out in writing, that Hillary had control of the DNC during the 2016 primaries, and used it to box Sanders out, she still ran such an unlikeable, uninspiring campaign, with outdated and out-of-touch messaging, that I don't think she has any right to be smugging about anything.
If she had not chosen to (whether successful or not) attempt to ostracize literally ever demographic aside from 50+ white women by being actively antagonistic towards most of them (Millennial voters? Just laugh if someone asks how you'll appeal to them!), she very well might have won. Not to cast aspersions, but I sure don't call that 'smart'.
The sad thing is that our current predicament was mostly perfectly understood back in 2016, even prior to the election. But no one in the DNC, Hillary included, seemed to have bothered to learn from their mistakes, and are all still making the same mistakes.
...the fear is that if younger voters really are committed to a host of ideological positions at odds with the mainstream of the Democratic Party, then that Party, without a Trump-sized cudgel, is doomed. It should not escape anybody's notice that politics by negative definition—the argument, at bottom, that "we're better than those guys"—has become the dominant electoral strategy of the Democratic Party, and that despite the escalation of the "those guys" negatives, the mere promise to be preferable has yielded diminishing returns. At some point, the Democratic Party will either need to embrace a platform significantly to the left of their current orthodoxy, or they will lose.
There are only so many times one can insist that young voters capitulate to a political party's sole demand—vote for us!—in exchange for nothing.
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Wow that quotation really gets to the heart of it.
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Painful lack of shame
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If she would just kindly fuck off all of us would be appreciative
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Go be irrelevant somewhere else, Hillary.
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Shooting the messenger is not strategically sound. The message is on point and coming from someone with a bit of experience.
Regardless of how one feels about her (I'm not a fan, either), we need these sorts of pieces to point out the utter incompetence of the junta. You'd really rather she shuts up so we can fill the space with fully right-wing "thinkpieces"?
The problem with "not this" is not considering the alternatives. Something's going to run. I'd rather see a column critical of what's going on than supporting it. It's not binary, but given the political climate, that's the other option.
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Shooting the messenger is not strategically sound.
She's not the messenger. She is the speaker. Here, she is attempting to exert her own brand of political influence.
Her political influence is largely responsible for the sorry state of the Democratic party today.
Whatever message needs to be sent, someone else can send it.
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Nobody likes her so she can't possibly be an effective messenger. It's as simple as that.
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Paywalled, so I can't read it all.
But honestly Hilary calling folks dumb? Has she completely forgotten 2016??
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You don’t need to read it. Knowing she wrote it, and they published it, is enough.
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Hegseth: Hold my beer
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And my scotch.
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Actually, nevermind, I need a pick me up.
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Wow! What is all the hate. I agree that Hillery was not exactly personable but she was quite competent. Trump on the other hand, great at media and crowds but really pretty much incompetent otherwise. As far as I can tell the only thing he has done for working people is channel hate and rage which is authentic. If there are are concrete things feel free to list them.
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All the hate is that if the DNC hadn't forced an unpopular candidate in 2016 maybe we wouldn't be where we are now. Disliking Trump and HRC isn't a binary choice.
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We all know Trump is worse. But none of that changes that competency doesn't make up for Hillary being an awful person and a worse candidate.
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That bitch campaigned with Henry Kissinger after all his war crimes were proven and we had such memorable quotes from him like
"If it were not for the accident of my birth, I would be antisemitic.... Any people who has been persecuted for two thousand years must be doing something wrong."
Fuck her.
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There is no depth to American's stupidity.
The comments here prove it.
We will fighting ourselves without relent as we slid into absolutely stupidity.
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