maybe next time at least promise the single biggest voting bloc that they still get to be almost as much people as everybody else?
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oh, look at me with the pollyanna optimism, talking about "next time"
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as any organizer knows the way to get people to act politically as a bloc is to make them feel threatened as a blochttps://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/796184879704711168 …
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the white people that voted for Trump weren't reacting to this. They were reacting to Black people being allowed to vote.
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they were reacting to marriage equality passing. They were reacting to having a Black president. They were reacting to a woman.
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i mean, we could stick with the "they're just morally reprehensible b/c they like being bad" line that just lost this election, yeah
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that's not what lost this election. The media invented a shit candidate and gave him free press because he was good for ratings.
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he said a bunch of incoherent bullshit that felt good because of how he said it, and he fought the stupid icky girl.
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okay. we're within the margin of so many effects that i don't see any reason one can't pick whichever one likes.
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but i'm pretty sure the left (-of-Rush-Limbaugh) unnecessarily alienating people with shit rhetoric is solidly on that list.
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and i guess i'd like to focus on one that suggests approaches other than "scold the right until they realize how bad they've been".
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