Full disclosure time.
I am Bernie Sanders.
I am a 40 year old white male, professionally educated. I wanted Hillary to win, against Trump. I wanted Bernie to win, against Hillary. I think Bernie would have smashed Trump. Trump may be the greatest demagogue of our times.
Yet, since winning he's given a gracious acceptance speech, and met with Obama for taking office which the NYTimes said:
“I want to emphasize to you, Mr. President-elect, that we now are going to want to do everything we can to help you succeed because if you succeed, then the country succeeds,” Mr. Obama told Mr. Trump as the two sat side-by-side after the roughly 90-minute meeting. The president called the session “excellent” and wide-ranging.
Mr. Trump, who said he had never met Mr. Obama before and expected the meeting to last only 10 or 15 minutes, said it had been a “great honor” to sit with the president.
“We discussed a lot of different situations, some wonderful and some difficulties. I very much look forward to dealing with the president in the future, including counsel,” Mr. Trump said.
It was an extraordinary show of cordiality and respect between two men who have been political enemies and are stylistic opposites — Mr. Trump a brash real estate executive and reality television star whose campaign was defined in opposition to the sitting president, and Mr. Obama, a cool-tempered intellectual who has pressed a progressive agenda in office.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/u...region=span-abc-region&WT.nav=span-abc-region
It may very well be that he turns out a good president. I lean towards this being unlikely, given the rhetoric expressed during the campaign, and the investigations into his business dealings, but my thoughts are irrelevant here. The American people spoke, and they said Trump. Perhaps they were duped by his promises; perhaps they wanted to send a message to coastal elites (
http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about/ ); perhaps it was anti-Hillary. Whatever the reason - and a multitude of books by people who claimed to know it was going to happen will be written about it - it happened.
The liberal media is currently shitting itself in an embarrassing fashion. Paul Krugman wrote on Twitter
which is kinda funny, as there's no road back. You can keep walking down your road Paul, but everyone else just took a right turn; they're still walking forwards - you'll need to turn too and catch up, because otherwise you just got rendered irrelevant, like the coastal liberal elites do to the middle of the country in the cracked article above.
Personally, i think the Democrats only have themselves to blame. Go through the Podesta emails and see how the DNC rigged the primary against Bernie. Whether or not Bernie would have gotten the nomination is almost moot - is this the kind of behaviour people want to see in a president? Trump took it and said, the system is rigged. And he was right. And people weren't going to stand for it anymore.
Cultural Marxism might not be dead, but it just got an
almighty punch in the face.
Dear Social Justice Warriors - it was easy to be an SJW when there was an American liberal in the White House (although El Presidente Trump is apparently a Manhattanite liberal, so we'll see). Let's see if clicktivism works for you when someone you oppose is in the White House.
As for the popular vote - 60,274,974 votes to Clinton, to 59,937,338 votes for Trump - good for her. Of course, the US system isn't set up as "whoever gets the most popular votes wins", so it's ******* moot. What it really means is the DNC were dumb enough to go for volume instead of targeting places. Makes Trump's campaign look like genius. And maybe it was.
My only hope is that like all of his other bluster, it turns out he believes climate change is real. Other than that America,
it has long been said that a populace votes in the government it deserves. Arguably, truer words have never been spoken.
And finally,