You’re just wrong. It’s all of the things: Apathy, gerrymandering, electoral college, Russian interference campaign, HRC campaign strategy, deplorables, etc…
In what rational universe do 63M voters cast their lot in with Trump given his well documented record of lying, cheating, corruption, racism and misogyny? I’ll tell you. The one where 63M are happy to actively or tacitly support that kind behavior in a POTUS. Took only a little push from around the margins to get 80K (0.06% of voters) to get Trump over the top. More effective than anyone imagined with well targeted foreign interference. The most troubling part, however, is that ~50% of those who voted thought Trump was qualified for anything other than shoveling shit from one place to another. So yeah, something is seriously wrong with a large proportion of American society.
And here’s the icing on the cake. Even if a democrat wins the 2020 election because they’ve run a brilliant and inspirational campaign, ~63M will still cast a vote for Trump. Changing nothing about society, just who is momentarily in charge as POTUS.
Still buying into the foreign interference narrative? Clinton wasn’t as good a candidate as you think and it was clear early on that Trump had a more compelling message. You know the message is compelling when thousands show up to rallies some of them waiting for hours to get in. This is something that never happened at a Clinton event. Ask yourself, why is that?
Yes Quicksilver. Clinton sucked.
She took some bad stands, then acted like the Presidency was hers on a silver platter.
Should’ve bothered to take the time to campaign, hard.
She didn’t.
I held my nose, and marked the little oval for her with a number two pencil, but it hurt me a lot to have to do so.
-Unfortunately, that is politics.
When you come to, check his recent posting history (well, his past twenty-five or so). It should disabuse you of any notion that he’s actually back. He’s merely popping back into the neighborhood to fulfill an errand he committed to back in the halcyon days of yore.
Only because you didn’t say. Instead, we get to make up our own answers.
Mine is that you finally realized the futility of using rhetorical tricks and decided that your life was better spent not actually defending the indefensible. You were finding yourself defending a lot of shitty stuff out of misplaced loyalty to your party, and decided such was not who you wanted to be.
I think it gives you a reasonable level of dignity, while not whitewashing your flaws.
The one thing that obviously didn’t happen was that you were chased away by us being hostile to conservatives, because, no matter how bad you think it is, what hostility there is did not change before you left vs. afterwards.
I’m shocked that the reason is implied here to be “some people said mean things about me” rather than an other much more dignified or thoughtful reason.