The pro-Sanders types are now blaming the Democratic Party - and most of the Democratic voters - for having chosen the moderate progressive instead of the radical, capitalism-hating, system-hating, mad as hell socialist who spent most of his campaign shouting about corrupt Hillary and the corrupt Democratic Party to be their nominee.
And they are wagging their fingers, insisting the Democrats can win back the working class only by lurching left.
The Clinton supporters are blaming people who voted for minor party candidates as well as the media for giving Trump free publicity and giving maximum effect to the email craziness.
Oddly, only Michael Moore so far seems to be blaming the Electoral College system, because of which Trump is President Elect though Hillary got the most votes.
[Correction: KOS has a petition up calling for abolition of the EC. Won't happen, but I signed on anyway.]
But USA Today has come out with a defense of the EC appealing to the usual claptrap, all the same.
Moore is right.
Though Huffpo writers are now calling for the EC to reject Trump there is no real chance they would dare ever to save us from this or any future demagogue, the proper occasion to filter out characters like Trump being the process of candidate selection carried out by the individual political parties.
No smoke-filled room was ever going to give us Donald Trump.
Given that, the real impact of the EC in our time is to give an edge to voters in red states that has twice in less than 20 years put a minority president in the White House - he and his party both times claiming a firm mandate.
So we should get rid of it.
But that won't happen.
Anyway, all of this is a bit like blaming everybody but the Nazi voters for the rise of Hitler.
I suppose in a while we will be hearing that we are all guilty, we are all to blame for this.
That's usually how this stuff ends.
Phooey.
The Dems appear to be thrashing about blaming anyone and everyone but none of them seem to be looking in a mirror!
ReplyDeleteAnd 'pur-lease', do not under any circs pay any attention to that fat fool Michael Moore or you will lose every election until you nail his coffin shut!
He's right about the nefarious role of the EC, but wrong in claiming the Dems need to go further left.
DeleteThe Dems and their sympathizers have spent decades gambling that they could gain more votes than they would lose by making politics a battle of the races and championing everybody else against whites.
It was a stupid and hateful strategy all along, and I have no idea how they recover from the damage since there is no real chance they will magically stop being the "blame white males - especially old white males" party any time soon.
I am incapable of reading articles online very often, but I’m happy I did today. It is very well written, and your points are well-expressed. I request you warmly, please, don’t ever stop writing. belt sander
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