2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Jack Pine nuts jobs rooted for Trump and... [View all]still_one
(96,541 posts)vulgar name in the book.
For all the curses that they threw at Hillary, President Obama, and anyone who supported them during the primaries, I throw it right back at them with extreme prejudice.
Hillary lost in Wisconsin by .3%. Jill Stein received 1.1% of the vote in Wisconsin. Similar things in Michigan, and other critical swings sates. How many of those over there, and with the same mindset voted third party?
Russ Feingold and Zypher Teachout lost, along with every Democrat running for the Senate against the ESTABLISHMENT, repulbican, INCUMBENT. How many of the 47% who didn't vote were from that mindset.
They knowledge that they will get exactly what they deserve over there from a trump presidency, will brings little satisfaction to the millions who will be suffering at their selfishness:
Noam Chomsky perhaps said it best:
'Progressives who refused to vote for Hillary Clinton made a bad mistake
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"I think they [made] a bad mistake, said Chomsky, who reiterated that its important to keep a greater evil from obtaining power, even if youre not thrilled with the alternative. I didnt like Clinton at all, but her positions are much better than Trumps on every issue I can think of.
Chomsky also attacked the arguments made by philosopher Slavoj Zizek, who argued that Trumps election would at least shake up the system and provide a real rallying point for the left.
[Zizek makes a] terrible point, Chomsky told Hasan. It was the same point that people like him said about Hitler in the early 30s
hell shake up the system in bad ways.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/noam-chomsky-progressives-who-refused-to-vote-for-hillary-clinton-made-a-bad-mistake/