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I think disappointment combined with the feeling of getting a raw deal are making people forget to censor themselves. So out comes ideas that they’ve always had but hadn’t felt provoked to say before. I think the fiercely loyal, older white woman demographic feels extra cheated, and so they are more liable to say things other people aren’t during this time. And as history has shown us, when two minorities are pitted against each other, they tend to focus on hating each other instead of uniting to wrestle power away from the status quo-favoring majority.
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Well said. I venture over to some of the more radical HRC supporters sites and I see the vitriol dripping from my screen. It will lessen, it always does. I do feel bad for Clinton a little, but I am glad to be looking at this from an Obama supporter standpoint.
Problem is a lot of the younger women are easily swayed to voting republican - when that is the exact opposite of what Clinton stood for.
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And as history has shown us, when two minorities are pitted against each other, they tend to focus on hating each other instead of uniting to wrestle power away from the status quo-favoring majority.
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I think that Hillary blew a great opportunity to unite the party and sides in her speech. She kept going on about meeting women who couldn’t vote when they were young…I would’ve loved her if she mentioned that Obama was born in a time where voting was nearly impossible for blacks in certain states. I would have loved to hear her remind the crowd that it’s only been 40 years, since blacks had legal protection to vote and even then they still had to fight.
I would have loved for her to tie together the two events that we as a nation had to grow through and how their campaigns did wonderful things for both groups. That the success of Obama, didn’t mean that they as a group lost, but that we as a nation won.
That to me, would have been true vision, true leadership and showed me that she truly wanted what was best for the nation and her supporters. Her supporters needed to understand they weren’t alone in their struggles, that they had kindred spirits and that joining Obama was a good thing, not just a necessary thing.