What did I learn from this election

[Meathead]

The longer the hissyfit, the better?

 

[Mac1958]

Republicans are not Conservatives in any sense of the term.

That's a pretty boilerplate, hyper-partisan OP there, but I'd focus on this.

There are Trump supporters here who flat-out said that they were no longer about conservatism in this campaign. One even told me that traditional conservatism is a failed ideology. So now it's about populism and nationalism.

It will have to be. Trump is not going to govern as a straight-ahead conservatism, and his fans surely know that. Should be a very interesting time.

The main thing I learned about the other side is that American apparently has had enough of their shit for a while, and disliked it so much they tossed a human hand grenade into the whole system.
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[Dale Smith]

In a real sense white educated and uneducated America voted hate*, hate born of many years of right wing media: Limbaugh, Savage, Coulter, Newsmax, and Fox media are only a part of the mostly rural hate machine. It hates progress and diversity, it hates what is often called political correctness, but was once considered manners and tolerance. Much of this hate is even exhibited in Evangelical Christianity's opposition to a changing, more tolerant society. Main Street media lived all this time in a self reflecting bubble in which they presented hate as if it were just spectacle. They failed too. What I actually saw.

The republicans are an unprincipled party.
Republicans elected the first candidate with no connection to truth.
Republicans are not Conservatives in any sense of the term.
Social change and rights for others brought out an enormous backlash.
Republicans blame everyone except themselves.
The republican base excuses their party, its corporate sponsors, and their own part in the economy.
The republican base does not believe in the American values of our founding documents.
Racism, sexism, misogyny, xenophobia, and bigotry define much of the republican base.
Donald Trump is a shining example of American white privilege.
Single issues manage many Republicans, demonstrating why their state and congressional governments are useless.
Republicans investigate investigate investigate, but do nothing for America and its people.
Republicans have the first Twitter brained candidate as their leader.
Make America great was a dog whistle which was heard clearly.
Fifty years of right wing republican radio has created a non reflective know nothing base which blames everyone except itself.
Main stream media refuses to accept the reality of the American electorate.
A sense of alienation mixed with hate remain powerful instigators of action, thirty years of Hillary hatred created a myth.
A myth believed by republicans and others.
What will republicans do now that they cannot investigate the Clintons?

Summary comment will be next due to space.

"The republicans are an unprincipled party"

Both political parties are bought and paid for at the top...thus why they are called the "establishment" and neither political party has a monopoly. I find it hilarious as to how you can so easily ignore how the DNC connived to steal the nomination from Sanders....how you can ignore the Wikileaks and Project Veritas revelations of how they were paying people to cause trouble at Trump rallies. How you can ignore the fact that Barrypuppet lied that he found out about Hiltery's use of a private server when everyone else did when he was actually using a different email addy to stay in touch with her ON that server? You have some nerve accusing ANYONE of being "unprincipled" given what has been revealed.

Republicans elected the first candidate with no connection to truth"

The people elected Trump with no help from the neocons so why in the hell are you trying to give them credit??? They spent no RNC funds on Trump's behalf to counter Hitlery and the DNC.


"Republicans are not Conservatives in any sense of the term"

Well "DUH?" Neocons are Trotskyites that oppose the Stalin version of communism. There hasn't been a true conservative that has been allowed to run for president since Reagan and even his cabinet was infiltrated by neocons but at least Reagan knew what a scam the Fed central bank was.

"Social change and rights for others brought out an enormous backlash"

Social change like trans-gendered bathrooms and anyone that doesn't agree with that deserves to be ostracized and hurt financially until they fall in line with the leftard perverted way of thinking? What's next? The acceptance of pedophilia and the lowering the age of consent? Because that's next on their agenda. You think parents should be fine with GLSEN coming into their schools as young as the first grade touting homosexuality and preaching "acceptance?"

"Republicans blame everyone except themselves"

Now that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.........

"The republican base excuses their party, its corporate sponsors, and their own part in the economy"

The "republican base" nominated Trump, the anti-neocon candidate by record numbers....is that not a repudiation of the status quo?

"The republican base does not believe in the American values of our founding documents"

Hmmmm? It seems to me that it's the demcrat party that believes that the constitution is a living breathing document that can be changed and interpreted at their whim and discretion even when the document is very plain for anyone to peruse.



"Racism, sexism, misogyny, xenophobia, and bigotry define much of the republican base."

Such bullshit.......wanting a secured border, wanting some kind of vetting program of middle eastern immigrants to decide their worthiness to come over here instead of just going by the U.N mandate stating that we MUST take them in by "hook or crook"...since when do we take orders from the U.N and when did it usurp our constitution and Bill of Rights exactly???

"Donald Trump is a shining example of American white privilege"

So you say, but the Clintons swiped billions and enriched their cronies with money donated to the Haitian earthquake crisis and they used her position at the State department to make that happen...now if that's not "white privilege", what is????

"Single issues manage many Republicans, demonstrating why their state and congressional governments are useless"

But not demcrats? Like Abortion, gun control, gorebal warming, etc, etc????????

"Republicans investigate investigate investigate, but do nothing for America and its people."

If the Barrypuppet, the justice and state department didn't stonewall and intimidate those called to testify, most of the investigations would have been over a long time ago...but where there is smoke, there is indeed fire.

"Republicans have the first Twitter brained candidate as their leader"

Guess what, he is going to be your president as well....deal with it.

"Make America great was a dog whistle which was heard clearly"

When you have 51 percent of anyone that even has a job makes less than 30K a year? Try and tell them how great America is. This country has been rolling slowly down hill since NAFTA, CAFTA and GATT and the neocons and Fabian socialists want to pass the TPP.....just another nail in the coffin of the middle class. You are damn right Trump's message resonated.

"Fifty years of right wing republican radio has created a non reflective know nothing base which blames everyone except itself"

Rightwing radio preaches to the choir and is nothing but an echo chamber of the empty promises made by the bought and paid for neocons that are in cahoots with the bought and paid for leftwing because nothing ever changes for the better.

"Main stream media refuses to accept the reality of the American electorate"

The same lamestream media that claimed Trump was waaaay behind Hitlery and that people shouldn't even bother voting because it was a done deal? The same lamestream media that ignored the Wikileaks revelations and Project Veritas???? THAT lamestream media that is bought and paid for by the same banking oligarchs that have put this debt slavery system in place? THAT one????

"A sense of alienation mixed with hate remain powerful instigators of action, thirty years of Hillary hatred created a myth"

No, this is real and even more revelations of the crimes of the Clintons will be revealed and they will be earth shattering if the NYPD and the rank and file within the FBI gets their way and the Clintons don't have enough funds in their foundation to buy their way out of this one.

"What will republicans do now that they cannot investigate the Clintons?"

Oh, the investigation tying Huma Abedin and Anthony Wiener to the Clintons and a child trafficking ring where Hitlery got a known sex trafficker trying to smuggle 33 children out of Haiti is a criminal case now and that investigation could incriminate high ranking politicians from both sides and I say let the chips fall where they may. It's time to drain the swamp and long past due.....

 

[Dale Smith]

In a real sense white educated and uneducated America voted hate*, hate born of many years of right wing media: Limbaugh, Savage, Coulter, Newsmax, and Fox media are only a part of the mostly rural hate machine. It hates progress and diversity, it hates what is often called political correctness, but was once considered manners and tolerance. Much of this hate is even exhibited in Evangelical Christianity's opposition to a changing, more tolerant society. Main Street media lived all this time in a self reflecting bubble in which they presented hate as if it were just spectacle. They failed too. What I actually saw.

The republicans are an unprincipled party.
Republicans elected the first candidate with no connection to truth.
Republicans are not Conservatives in any sense of the term.
Social change and rights for others brought out an enormous backlash.
Republicans blame everyone except themselves.
The republican base excuses their party, its corporate sponsors, and their own part in the economy.
The republican base does not believe in the American values of our founding documents.
Racism, sexism, misogyny, xenophobia, and bigotry define much of the republican base.
Donald Trump is a shining example of American white privilege.
Single issues manage many Republicans, demonstrating why their state and congressional governments are useless.
Republicans investigate investigate investigate, but do nothing for America and its people.
Republicans have the first Twitter brained candidate as their leader.
Make America great was a dog whistle which was heard clearly.
Fifty years of right wing republican radio has created a non reflective know nothing base which blames everyone except itself.
Main stream media refuses to accept the reality of the American electorate.
A sense of alienation mixed with hate remain powerful instigators of action, thirty years of Hillary hatred created a myth.
A myth believed by republicans and others.
What will republicans do now that they cannot investigate the Clintons?

Summary comment will be next due to space.

Great post as is the follow up.

I think the Democrats, as Michael Moore states on Morning Joe, catered to everyone except the people that have been who THEY are forever. White working class people.

The Democrats took them entirely for granted and fawned over and championed everyone else and white working class people, enough of them anyway, didn't like it. The Republicans that voted for piece.of.shit trump were people that saw too much societal change happening too fast and were scared, as they always are.But the only reason p.o.shit trump won with a razor thin margin in a couple battleground states was because the working class whites there felt left out. Moore pointed out that HRC lost Michigan by maybe 15,000 votes. A blip on an electoral chart. But 90,000 people in Detroit when they voted left the Presidential part of the ballot empty. They didn't vote for anyone, and that made the difference in that state no doubt. A similar story will play out in PA and WI.

But to the OP and this is the most disturbing thing of the election. We learned Republicans will vote for ANYONE that carries their water. Anyone. Evangelicals and so-called 'christians' on the right have taken their mask off for good. They do not live by morals or any code. Their only purpose is to gain power at any cost and by voting even for Satan if he were running. This is the important take away from p.o.shit trump winning. That such a large group of Americans have absolutely no moral compass at all.

In a real sense white educated and uneducated America voted hate*, hate born of many years of right wing media: Limbaugh, Savage, Coulter, Newsmax, and Fox media are only a part of the mostly rural hate machine. It hates progress and diversity, it hates what is often called political correctness, but was once considered manners and tolerance. Much of this hate is even exhibited in Evangelical Christianity's opposition to a changing, more tolerant society. Main Street media lived all this time in a self reflecting bubble in which they presented hate as if it were just spectacle. They failed too. What I actually saw.

The republicans are an unprincipled party.
Republicans elected the first candidate with no connection to truth.
Republicans are not Conservatives in any sense of the term.
Social change and rights for others brought out an enormous backlash.
Republicans blame everyone except themselves.
The republican base excuses their party, its corporate sponsors, and their own part in the economy.
The republican base does not believe in the American values of our founding documents.
Racism, sexism, misogyny, xenophobia, and bigotry define much of the republican base.
Donald Trump is a shining example of American white privilege.
Single issues manage many Republicans, demonstrating why their state and congressional governments are useless.
Republicans investigate investigate investigate, but do nothing for America and its people.
Republicans have the first Twitter brained candidate as their leader.
Make America great was a dog whistle which was heard clearly.
Fifty years of right wing republican radio has created a non reflective know nothing base which blames everyone except itself.
Main stream media refuses to accept the reality of the American electorate.
A sense of alienation mixed with hate remain powerful instigators of action, thirty years of Hillary hatred created a myth.
A myth believed by republicans and others.
What will republicans do now that they cannot investigate the Clintons?

Summary comment will be next due to space.

Great post as is the follow up.

I think the Democrats, as Michael Moore states on Morning Joe, catered to everyone except the people that have been who THEY are forever. White working class people.

The Democrats took them entirely for granted and fawned over and championed everyone else and white working class people, enough of them anyway, didn't like it. The Republicans that voted for piece.of.shit trump were people that saw too much societal change happening too fast and were scared, as they always are.But the only reason p.o.shit trump won with a razor thin margin in a couple battleground states was because the working class whites there felt left out. Moore pointed out that HRC lost Michigan by maybe 15,000 votes. A blip on an electoral chart. But 90,000 people in Detroit when they voted left the Presidential part of the ballot empty. They didn't vote for anyone, and that made the difference in that state no doubt. A similar story will play out in PA and WI.

But to the OP and this is the most disturbing thing of the election. We learned Republicans will vote for ANYONE that carries their water. Anyone. Evangelicals and so-called 'christians' on the right have taken their mask off for good. They do not live by morals or any code. Their only purpose is to gain power at any cost and by voting even for Satan if he were running. This is the important take away from p.o.shit trump winning. That such a large group of Americans have absolutely no moral compass at all.

Are you trying to convince anyone that Hitlery has any kind of a "moral compass" that she goes by? Seriously? How can ANYONE look at what has been revealed about her and make the kind of comment that you made? I am not looking for a saint, but I am hoping that someone could get the chance to lead that isn't bought and paid for by Wall Street and the central bankers like Hitlery....if that doesn't pass your idea of a "moral code"? Tough shit......I don't live to placate or prove anything to the likes of you.....get it??

 

[owebo]

In a real sense white educated and uneducated America voted hate*, hate born of many years of right wing media: Limbaugh, Savage, Coulter, Newsmax, and Fox media are only a part of the mostly rural hate machine. It hates progress and diversity, it hates what is often called political correctness, but was once considered manners and tolerance. Much of this hate is even exhibited in Evangelical Christianity's opposition to a changing, more tolerant society. Main Street media lived all this time in a self reflecting bubble in which they presented hate as if it were just spectacle. They failed too. What I actually saw.

The republicans are an unprincipled party.
Republicans elected the first candidate with no connection to truth.
Republicans are not Conservatives in any sense of the term.
Social change and rights for others brought out an enormous backlash.
Republicans blame everyone except themselves.
The republican base excuses their party, its corporate sponsors, and their own part in the economy.
The republican base does not believe in the American values of our founding documents.
Racism, sexism, misogyny, xenophobia, and bigotry define much of the republican base.
Donald Trump is a shining example of American white privilege.
Single issues manage many Republicans, demonstrating why their state and congressional governments are useless.
Republicans investigate investigate investigate, but do nothing for America and its people.
Republicans have the first Twitter brained candidate as their leader.
Make America great was a dog whistle which was heard clearly.
Fifty years of right wing republican radio has created a non reflective know nothing base which blames everyone except itself.
Main stream media refuses to accept the reality of the American electorate.
A sense of alienation mixed with hate remain powerful instigators of action, thirty years of Hillary hatred created a myth.
A myth believed by republicans and others.
What will republicans do now that they cannot investigate the Clintons?

Summary comment will be next due to space.

You do,realize you Hillary and her democrat party of hate, bigotry,Marxism and divide lost....right?

 

[oldsoul]

In a real sense white educated and uneducated America voted hate*, hate born of many years of right wing media: Limbaugh, Savage, Coulter, Newsmax, and Fox media are only a part of the mostly rural hate machine. It hates progress and diversity, it hates what is often called political correctness, but was once considered manners and tolerance. Much of this hate is even exhibited in Evangelical Christianity's opposition to a changing, more tolerant society. Main Street media lived all this time in a self reflecting bubble in which they presented hate as if it were just spectacle. They failed too. What I actually saw.

I could not stand to read any further than the quoted section above. You claim that hate and intolerance were the driving factors in "white educated and uneducated America", then go on to blame that hate on right-wing media. This may all be true, I see it differently, but you may be partially right at least. Then you say "it" (rw media?) hates political correctness, a statement that is literally correct, but is functionally incomplete. It is not that many people hate "PC", it is that many people object to the premise of it. Let me explain.
Many people define "PC" as the normalizing of "respectful", "inclusive" language. Many others, while not having a problem with changing terminology per se, do have a problem with the fact that it severely limits, not just what a person "can" say, but how a person MUST say things. Add to that the constantly changing nature of what is considered "PC" and a person easily becomes confused and frustrated. I mean, what is the correct way for a "white man" to refer to a person with African heritage? "black"? "African-American"? "person of color"? What is correct? Is it the same for people of Asian ancestry? What about African ancestry? I, personally, have heard people referring to each other with what I would consider racist terms and it is fine, but it is not fine for others to use the same terms. Additionally, it does not seem as though many people have a problem with terms that are derogatory towards "white people" for example.
So in summary, it is not political correctness that is being objected to per se, it is the double-standards, and constant moving of the goal posts.
Additionally, "It" (rw media again?) does not hate progress, it disapproves of radical change. "It" does not hate diversity, it disapproves of being forced to consider identity politics in nearly every aspect of life and business. The left poses as the ones that embrace change, and diversity. Yet they seldom embrace differences in the way people look at the world. The way I look at the world should not offend anyone, how I act on that outlook may. The left does not seem to see things that way. They seem to believe that certain ways of life, and ways of looking at the world should not be tolerated. Now, I agree that certain ACTIONS should not be tolerated, but if a person THINKS a certain way, that is not a problem.

 

[midcan5]

Some interesting replies, but what now? Trump is not even president and yet many on all sides of the political spectrum shake their heads and wonder what next. Personally his election will have no effect on our family, what will it do for America? Many people fear the consequences of a lawless presidency outside the decorum barriers set up so long ago, is this the beginning of America's decline. The rise the alt right scares many and hopefully we don't see a return to a McCarthyist world. I ponder what Trump will do when his poll ratings fall? He is so thin skinned and insecure a narcissist how will he handle being booed for a change.

People in replies above complained that I mentioned 'hate', but I give you this as just one example. “From Maine to North Carolina, from Ohio to Arizona, here is what we saw”: https://vp.nyt.com/video/2016/07/17/41314_1_offensive-trump_wg_360p.mp4

Wave of hate crimes against Muslims, Hispanics and black people reported since Donald Trump’s win

WATCH: The New York Times reveals the “unfiltered” voices inside Donald Trump’s rallies

Others complained about my comment that republicans are not a party of principle - the sycophants showing up at the Trump Tower says it more clearly than I need to.

"The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto." Eric Hoffer

 

[bripat9643]

Some interesting replies, but what now? Trump is not even president and yet many on all sides of the political spectrum shake their heads and wonder what next. Personally his election will have no effect on our family, what will it do for America? Many people fear the consequences of a lawless presidency outside the decorum barriers set up so long ago, is this the beginning of America's decline. The rise the alt right scares many and hopefully we don't see a return to a McCarthyist world. I ponder what Trump will do when his poll ratings fall? He is so thin skinned and insecure a narcissist how will he handle being booed for a change.

People in replies above complained that I mentioned 'hate', but I give you this as just one example. “From Maine to North Carolina, from Ohio to Arizona, here is what we saw”: https://vp.nyt.com/video/2016/07/17/41314_1_offensive-trump_wg_360p.mp4

Wave of hate crimes against Muslims, Hispanics and black people reported since Donald Trump’s win

WATCH: The New York Times reveals the “unfiltered” voices inside Donald Trump’s rallies

Others complained about my comment that republicans are not a party of principle - the sycophants showing up at the Trump Tower says it more clearly than I need to.

"The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto." Eric Hoffer

You made a lot of claims in your attempt to smear Trump, but you failed to provide the slightest bit of evidence to support them.

How beautifully liberal!

 

[NightFox]

In a real sense white educated and uneducated America voted hate*, hate born of many years of right wing media: Limbaugh, Savage, Coulter, Newsmax, and Fox media are only a part of the mostly rural hate machine. It hates progress and diversity, it hates what is often called political correctness, but was once considered manners and tolerance. Much of this hate is even exhibited in Evangelical Christianity's opposition to a changing, more tolerant society. Main Street media lived all this time in a self reflecting bubble in which they presented hate as if it were just spectacle. They failed too. What I actually saw.

The republicans are an unprincipled party.
Republicans elected the first candidate with no connection to truth.
Republicans are not Conservatives in any sense of the term.
Social change and rights for others brought out an enormous backlash.
Republicans blame everyone except themselves.
The republican base excuses their party, its corporate sponsors, and their own part in the economy.
The republican base does not believe in the American values of our founding documents.
Racism, sexism, misogyny, xenophobia, and bigotry define much of the republican base.
Donald Trump is a shining example of American white privilege.
Single issues manage many Republicans, demonstrating why their state and congressional governments are useless.
Republicans investigate investigate investigate, but do nothing for America and its people.
Republicans have the first Twitter brained candidate as their leader.
Make America great was a dog whistle which was heard clearly.
Fifty years of right wing republican radio has created a non reflective know nothing base which blames everyone except itself.
Main stream media refuses to accept the reality of the American electorate.
A sense of alienation mixed with hate remain powerful instigators of action, thirty years of Hillary hatred created a myth.
A myth believed by republicans and others.
What will republicans do now that they cannot investigate the Clintons?

Summary comment will be next due to space.

ROFLMAO! what rich irony, the prototypical hyper-partisan lemming writing out a long list of excuses for why his beloved party just got mauled in an election AND has the temerity to accuse the other side of "blaming everyone except themselves", your cognitive dissonance is simply off the charts.....

Dear Colossal Hyper-Partisan Douche Bag,

If you want to know why your party has been getting its assed kicked lately, look in the mirror.

Love,

The Rational Citizens of the United States

"We have met the enemy and he is us." -- Walt Kelly

 

[bripat9643]

Some interesting replies, but what now? Trump is not even president and yet many on all sides of the political spectrum shake their heads and wonder what next. Personally his election will have no effect on our family, what will it do for America? Many people fear the consequences of a lawless presidency outside the decorum barriers set up so long ago, is this the beginning of America's decline. The rise the alt right scares many and hopefully we don't see a return to a McCarthyist world. I ponder what Trump will do when his poll ratings fall? He is so thin skinned and insecure a narcissist how will he handle being booed for a change.

People in replies above complained that I mentioned 'hate', but I give you this as just one example. “From Maine to North Carolina, from Ohio to Arizona, here is what we saw”: https://vp.nyt.com/video/2016/07/17/41314_1_offensive-trump_wg_360p.mp4

Wave of hate crimes against Muslims, Hispanics and black people reported since Donald Trump’s win

WATCH: The New York Times reveals the “unfiltered” voices inside Donald Trump’s rallies

Others complained about my comment that republicans are not a party of principle - the sycophants showing up at the Trump Tower says it more clearly than I need to.

"The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto." Eric Hoffer

Fascism is an economic system in which productive enterprises are nominally owned privately but where government makes all the business decisions. Business owners are reduced to being mere factory managers. It's a form of socialism.

 

[NightFox]

Some interesting replies, but what now? Trump is not even president and yet many on all sides of the political spectrum shake their heads and wonder what next. Personally his election will have no effect on our family, what will it do for America? Many people fear the consequences of a lawless presidency outside the decorum barriers set up so long ago, is this the beginning of America's decline. The rise the alt right scares many and hopefully we don't see a return to a McCarthyist world. I ponder what Trump will do when his poll ratings fall? He is so thin skinned and insecure a narcissist how will he handle being booed for a change.

People in replies above complained that I mentioned 'hate', but I give you this as just one example. “From Maine to North Carolina, from Ohio to Arizona, here is what we saw”: https://vp.nyt.com/video/2016/07/17/41314_1_offensive-trump_wg_360p.mp4

Wave of hate crimes against Muslims, Hispanics and black people reported since Donald Trump’s win

WATCH: The New York Times reveals the “unfiltered” voices inside Donald Trump’s rallies

Others complained about my comment that republicans are not a party of principle - the sycophants showing up at the Trump Tower says it more clearly than I need to.

"The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto." Eric Hoffer

Fascism is an economic system in which are nominally owned privately but where government makes all the business decisions. Business owners are reduced to being mere factory managers. It's a form of socialism.

That's one aspect of it, sound like anybody we know? *COUGH*Obama Administration*COUGH*

 

[Flash]

What did I learn from this election?

Democrats were stupid running a corrupt, dishonest and incompetent Presidential nominee that has more baggage than Delta Airlines. What were those idiots thinking?

 

[NightFox]

What did I learn from this election?

Democrats were stupid running a corrupt, dishonest and incompetent Presidential nominee that has more baggage than Delta Airlines. What were those idiots thinking?

"She's next in line and she's all we got".

 

[Flash]

Crooked Hillary ran on a platform to raise taxes, bring in a million friggin Muslims, have no borders and abolish the Second Amendment and then the Moon Bats wonder why she didn't win by 50 more percentage points.

 

[bripat9643]

Some interesting replies, but what now? Trump is not even president and yet many on all sides of the political spectrum shake their heads and wonder what next. Personally his election will have no effect on our family, what will it do for America? Many people fear the consequences of a lawless presidency outside the decorum barriers set up so long ago, is this the beginning of America's decline. The rise the alt right scares many and hopefully we don't see a return to a McCarthyist world. I ponder what Trump will do when his poll ratings fall? He is so thin skinned and insecure a narcissist how will he handle being booed for a change.

People in replies above complained that I mentioned 'hate', but I give you this as just one example. “From Maine to North Carolina, from Ohio to Arizona, here is what we saw”: https://vp.nyt.com/video/2016/07/17/41314_1_offensive-trump_wg_360p.mp4

Wave of hate crimes against Muslims, Hispanics and black people reported since Donald Trump’s win

WATCH: The New York Times reveals the “unfiltered” voices inside Donald Trump’s rallies

Others complained about my comment that republicans are not a party of principle - the sycophants showing up at the Trump Tower says it more clearly than I need to.

"The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto." Eric Hoffer

Fascism is an economic system in which are nominally owned privately but where government makes all the business decisions. Business owners are reduced to being mere factory managers. It's a form of socialism.

That's one aspect of it, sound like anybody we know? *COUGH*Obama Administration*COUGH*

If fascism is an economic system, then that's the distinguishing characteristic. If it's not an economic system, then there's nothing peculiar about it. It's just one many varieties of authoritarian government.

 

[NightFox]

Some interesting replies, but what now? Trump is not even president and yet many on all sides of the political spectrum shake their heads and wonder what next. Personally his election will have no effect on our family, what will it do for America? Many people fear the consequences of a lawless presidency outside the decorum barriers set up so long ago, is this the beginning of America's decline. The rise the alt right scares many and hopefully we don't see a return to a McCarthyist world. I ponder what Trump will do when his poll ratings fall? He is so thin skinned and insecure a narcissist how will he handle being booed for a change.

People in replies above complained that I mentioned 'hate', but I give you this as just one example. “From Maine to North Carolina, from Ohio to Arizona, here is what we saw”: https://vp.nyt.com/video/2016/07/17/41314_1_offensive-trump_wg_360p.mp4

Wave of hate crimes against Muslims, Hispanics and black people reported since Donald Trump’s win

WATCH: The New York Times reveals the “unfiltered” voices inside Donald Trump’s rallies

Others complained about my comment that republicans are not a party of principle - the sycophants showing up at the Trump Tower says it more clearly than I need to.

"The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto." Eric Hoffer

Fascism is an economic system in which are nominally owned privately but where government makes all the business decisions. Business owners are reduced to being mere factory managers. It's a form of socialism.

That's one aspect of it, sound like anybody we know? *COUGH*Obama Administration*COUGH*

If fascism is an economic system, then that's the distinguishing characteristic. If it's not an economic system, then there's nothing peculiar about it. It's just one many varieties of authoritarian government.

It's both an economic system and a political system with it's own combinations of views on both aspects which is what makes it a distinct ideology.

 

[Kondor3]

In a real sense white educated and uneducated America voted hate*, hate born of many years of right wing media: Limbaugh, Savage, Coulter, Newsmax, and Fox media are only a part of the mostly rural hate machine. It hates progress and diversity, it hates what is often called political correctness, but was once considered manners and tolerance. Much of this hate is even exhibited in Evangelical Christianity's opposition to a changing, more tolerant society. Main Street media lived all this time in a self reflecting bubble in which they presented hate as if it were just spectacle. They failed too. What I actually saw.

The republicans are an unprincipled party.
Republicans elected the first candidate with no connection to truth.
Republicans are not Conservatives in any sense of the term.
Social change and rights for others brought out an enormous backlash.
Republicans blame everyone except themselves.
The republican base excuses their party, its corporate sponsors, and their own part in the economy.
The republican base does not believe in the American values of our founding documents.
Racism, sexism, misogyny, xenophobia, and bigotry define much of the republican base.
Donald Trump is a shining example of American white privilege.
Single issues manage many Republicans, demonstrating why their state and congressional governments are useless.
Republicans investigate investigate investigate, but do nothing for America and its people.
Republicans have the first Twitter brained candidate as their leader.
Make America great was a dog whistle which was heard clearly.
Fifty years of right wing republican radio has created a non reflective know nothing base which blames everyone except itself.
Main stream media refuses to accept the reality of the American electorate.
A sense of alienation mixed with hate remain powerful instigators of action, thirty years of Hillary hatred created a myth.
A myth believed by republicans and others.
What will republicans do now that they cannot investigate the Clintons?

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Then you learned nothing.

You will learn much more by looking in the mirror to see why you lost the Presidency, the Senate, the House and the Supreme Court.

You will learn even more by looking at your agenda.

You rammed ObamaCare down America's throat.

You mocked thousands of years of traditional marriage conventions and forced Gay Marriage down America's throat.

You stood alongside an invasion force of 11-12,000,000 Illegal Aliens, instead of standing with your fellow countrymen.

You stood alongside Militant Islam rather than standing with your own people and traditions.

You stood by internationalists and bad trade deals and job loss to slave-labor markets overseas, rather than standing with your own people.

And you've just been bitch-slapped for it.

Profoundly.

Hard and soundly.

Jesus... you've just lost the Supreme Court for a generation or more; even if you win in 2020 (which is highly doubtful), you won't be able to un-do THAT.

Idiots !!!

Moderation would have kept you comfortably in power for years, if not another decade or more.

You even managed to lose White, Working-Class America - a demographic you've owned since FDR's time.

Mostly because you thought that by vote-whoring to minorities, you wouldn't need Whitey anymore.

Well... you've just been schooled good-and-proper, my little Liberal butt-floss.

Your arrogance and myopia have all but destroyed you and your party.

And now you spew delusion and bile, and whine and piss and moan, and blame everyone but yourselves, and everything but your own agenda.

Watching you fools cry about losing the election is turning out to be first-class entertainment... funny stuff.

Suck it up, buttercup.

Arrogance has consequences.

These are yours.

Enjoy.

 

[bripat9643]

Some interesting replies, but what now? Trump is not even president and yet many on all sides of the political spectrum shake their heads and wonder what next. Personally his election will have no effect on our family, what will it do for America? Many people fear the consequences of a lawless presidency outside the decorum barriers set up so long ago, is this the beginning of America's decline. The rise the alt right scares many and hopefully we don't see a return to a McCarthyist world. I ponder what Trump will do when his poll ratings fall? He is so thin skinned and insecure a narcissist how will he handle being booed for a change.

People in replies above complained that I mentioned 'hate', but I give you this as just one example. “From Maine to North Carolina, from Ohio to Arizona, here is what we saw”: https://vp.nyt.com/video/2016/07/17/41314_1_offensive-trump_wg_360p.mp4

Wave of hate crimes against Muslims, Hispanics and black people reported since Donald Trump’s win

WATCH: The New York Times reveals the “unfiltered” voices inside Donald Trump’s rallies

Others complained about my comment that republicans are not a party of principle - the sycophants showing up at the Trump Tower says it more clearly than I need to.

"The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness or holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold onto." Eric Hoffer

Fascism is an economic system in which are nominally owned privately but where government makes all the business decisions. Business owners are reduced to being mere factory managers. It's a form of socialism.

That's one aspect of it, sound like anybody we know? *COUGH*Obama Administration*COUGH*

If fascism is an economic system, then that's the distinguishing characteristic. If it's not an economic system, then there's nothing peculiar about it. It's just one many varieties of authoritarian government.

It's both an economic system and a political system with it's own combinations of views on both aspects which is what makes it a distinct ideology.

It's always characterized as an economic system. It's listed along with capitalism and socialism. Those are economic systems. If it's not an economic system, then there's nothing peculiar about it. Denouncing fascism is no different than denouncing slavery or segregation or any of a thousand social evils.

 

[SmokeALib]

I've learned that most democrats are trash.

 

[NYcarbineer]

I learned what I already knew. Protectionism is a winning issue. Labor still matters.