2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: It kills me to come to a gathering place for democrats [View all]WilliamH1474
(29 posts)But that is OK, as a fellow Democrat I am always open to discussion and disagreement. I really appreciate your detailed response.
I think part of the problem is that there was classified content emailed in the first place. But has human's we all make mistakes and an email that was classified slipping through the cracks can be easily explained. However I think there were over 60 emails with classified information on them. Somewhere in there, you have to think logically and admit to yourself that someone was cutting corners
It's hard for me, because I really had no preference in either Bernie or Hillary because I liked a lot of both platforms, and hated everything the Repugs brought to the table.
I do take issue with you saying that I bought into some kind of Repug nonsense just because I don't think that everything went off without a hitch and there were no mistakes made. I was taught since a young age that part of making a mistake is learning from it, so that you do not repeat it. There will be no learning from these mistakes, and no correcting problems if we all just hold hands and pretend that she ran a perfect campaign, and that the only reason that we lost was because of Comey and some Russian bs.
I fear that there has been a lot of making excuses and not enough open and through analysis of why we have lost a total of 900 state legislature seats, 12 governors, 69 House seats, 13 Senate seat. Somewhere along the road, we have lost our grasp of the common man(or women) and been beaten by a racist group that used to be so hated, and reviled.
Again, this is just one man's opinion and I may be way off base. This is simply my take on this election.
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