Because given your record on hating transgendered people or posting right-wing conspiracy theorist crap, you sound exactly like the typical Trump supporter who feels foreigners are the cause of all your problems.
I thought he meant the Doonesbury character when i read your reaction.
As much as we’re going to be lucky to get HRC instead of Trump, she’s going to do whatever she thinks will keep her in power. She voted for a border fence before when it was expedient, so if it becomes politically expedient to build a wall, odds are she’ll build a wall.
Trump’s entire candidacy is based on exploiting divisiveness, so uniting America is contrary to his goals.
As far as Clinton goes, despite the poor optics I think her basket of deplorables speech was right on target, with the possible exception of misrepresenting the proportions. I don’t see any way that the alt right can be brought into the fold, short of entirely rejecting the national ideals of equality. The best that can be hoped is to expose them to the light so that they can be recognized as a problem that needs to be dealt with rather than ignored and allowed to fester, like bullying, drunk driving and domestic violence has in the past.
For the remainder. I think it would make sense to make fighting poverty in rural America a high priority of her administration. Most of the media reporting of poverty tends to focus on inner city poverty, which makes it more of a race issue, and which leaves the poor rural whites people feeling left out. Concentrating on them may help to bridge the divide.
Unfortunately, congress, and Republican state and local government will once again make it their goal to sabotage anything that Clinton tries to do, even if (especially if) it is aimed at helping their core constituency, since if it actually made peoples lives better a Democrat might get credit. Also these people have “government bad” so ingrained in their heads, that they themselves might be mistrustful and skeptical of any programs that are created to help them (“keep government out of my medicare”). So it will be an uphill battle. Still its probably worth the attempt.
ETA: Another possibility would be to try to revive labor as an economic force, but the labor unions have been knocked down so much over the last 30 years, that its probably easier to revive a haggis.
ever thought that there are STILL people who don’t think one group (liberals or conservatives) are always right? Ever thought that there were still moderates? You can also go thru my past posts and see that I’m considerably different than Trump on Mexican immigration; I strongly oppose deporting 12 million people and have for my entire posting history! I don’t get the general hate from some against Mexicans; its not like they practice Islam. If they did, I’d be wearing a MAGA hat.
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As much as we’re going to be lucky to get HRC instead of Trump, she’s going to do whatever she thinks will keep her in power. She voted for a border fence before when it was expedient, so if it becomes politically expedient to build a wall, odds are she’ll build a wall.
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Tis true, and it will be good for Americans and even Mexican unauthorized people already here. It would be a uniting move, like Bill Clinton ending welfare as we knew it, and making it a second chance, not a way of life. Thankfully tho, Hillary would not try to get Mexico to pay for it or mass deport.
Is that your plan to unite America? Unite them in hatred of a religious minority, which can be blamed for the nation’s failures? Seems like I recall that be tried somewhere before, but good luck with it.
I thought the topic in the OP was an interesting one, but the thread seems to be going downhill quickly.
I’m a right-wing conservative, and I’m asking myself what could a President Clinton do to win me over, or at least get me to soften my opposition to her. Everything I can come up with would absolutely infuriate her base, and are probably anathema to every political bone in her body. They seem about as likely to happen as pigs flying or hell freezing over, so I’ll probably spend the next 4 years writing my Congresswoman and urging her to impeach HRC instead.
Oh, and a better David Duke analogue would’ve been Clinton’s “friend and mentor” Robert Byrd, but even that’s not a very good one because Senator Byrd seems to have genuinely regretted his service to the KKK.
Open bigotry in a thread about uniting the country! Bravo!
Here’s something Hillary should note when she wins tonight:
Time to move back to the center, Democrats.
They are pretty damn close to the center. And you’ll notice that your own cite says that slightly more favor Obama’s policies or more liberal.
I’ll also note that your favored positions – bigotry towards trans people and Muslims – aren’t “back to the center”.
Oh please… “back” to the center??