2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: In this election there was no ambiguity where trump stood or what the republican agenda was [View all]TDBroke
(25 posts)We can blame Stein's voters, we can blame Russians, we can blame Bernie's voters. We can blame everybody but ourselves for not winning this election. But we need to take a hard look at ourselves and our policies that allowed unemployment to get to this level. Sure on paper it looks like everything is fine. But seeing how people voted across this country it tells me that not all is right. We've alienated voters and looked the other way when they told us that they were hurting. We turned away from those who needed us the most. We've allowed the affordable care act to push employers to part time hiring instead of full 40 hour jobs with benefits. We need to fix this and fix it fast or it's going to be a long 4 years. This should have been a slam dunk easy election but it wasn't. So much that we outright lost. I'll get called a troll for this but sometimes we need to face the facts and work from within to fix the issues that are causing our neighbors grief. Sure we can focus on who pees where and who marries who but at the end of the day that doesn't matter to a large portion of the country. Let's right the ship. I'm a realist.