The “birther movement” was literally half your side. The figurehead of that movement is now president-elect, having been voted in by people like you. Some indication of shame on your part would be nice.
Well… yeah. Imagine if the liberals had run a candidate with no experience in government, who showed time and time again his complete and utter disregard for basic morals or truth, who bragged about sexual assault, who clearly had no idea what he was talking about on current events, and who offered no indication that he had any idea how to achieve any of the (tiny, tiny handful of) policies he put forward. Imagine that candidate won, despite picking up something like 3 million less votes.
That would be a valid comparison. Comparing Obama to Trump is fucking insulting. Yeah, no wonder there were less protests back then; Obama wasn’t a narcissistic psychopath who ran on a platform of demagogy and hate.
Three things.
One: just because your side does it doesn’t mean that everyone does; the democrats are already pledging to work with the elements of Trump’s agenda that aren’t horrifying, as though he actually had a fucking mandate.
Two: most of Trump’s “proposals” have come down to his cabinet position picks. How many of those do you see that shouldn’t be fought tooth and nail? They’re almost uniformly incompetent, corrupt, or against the very reason of their department for existing.
Three: if it’s modern politics at its worst, why do you support the people who did this for literally all of the last 8 years, congressional republicans? It’s like complaining about how awful all those racists are while dropping the donation check to your local KKK charter in the mail. One group of people have been very loud and proud about their utter unwillingness to work with the other side on anything. That’s the republicans.
Even assuming that this statement were true, and there wasn’t every indication that Clinton would have done a pretty darn good job - she’s a policy wonk with an eye for details, with a ton of plans backed up by experts - you’re still comparing the common cold to the bubonic plague. It’s nonsense. We had a choice between a politician who was pretty normal with a few old scandals, and a reality TV star who offered 560 unique lies between announcing his run and winning the election, doesn’t have the slightest clue about mideastern policy, trade policy, or indeed any policy, and who literally thinks global warming is a myth.
Nice going.
What’s your excuse? You apparently voted for Trump. What’s your excuse? How do you justify that choice to yourself?
What a frighteningly naive view of reality.
Let’s say the republicans modify social security to privatize the trust fund. They insert all the saved cash into private investments. Then, a crash happens. Tell me - how fast can we get all that money back? Even assuming that the democrats have the wherewithal to fix it once they come back into power, can they?
And of course, there’s cases like invading Iran, electing extremist supreme court judges, redrawing election lines or changing election rules to create a permanent advantage, ignoring the environment for another 4 years and making it that much harder to fight global warming internationally, and much more. We’ve had 8 years of Obama, and we still face problems caused not just during Bush’s term, but during Clinton, Bush Sr., and Reagan’s Terms.
No. Because in many cases, what we’re bemoaning is the refusal to use the government’s power to do what needs to be done. And in many cases, we need a strong government to deal with these issues. If we remove the government’s power to provide social security benefits, the problem of extreme poverty among the very old doesn’t just suddenly go away.
Y’know, I was gonna say something along the lines of this:
Imagine if they had done the same to your party, and aired aaaaall that dirty laundry. Imagine if they had gotten their hands on all the emails of the Trump Foundation, including all the emails Trump destroyed to avoid providing them in lawsuits. Imagine if they were able to sift through those hundreds of thousands of emails, hunting for anything that they could take out of context and use to attack Trump. You don’t think that would hurt your candidate? You don’t think it would do so disproportionately to the actual offenses?
But then I remembered that we’re talking about a candidate who publicly, on live TV, attacked a gold star family, a miss universe contestant, and bragged about committing sexual assault, and you would have voted for him anyways. I remember that it basically didn’t matter what Trump did, and that he was absolutely right when he said he could fucking shoot someone and not lose voters.
And then I die a little inside. And so does American democracy.
