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In reply to the discussion: Rural America Is Desperate. It Is Also Part of the Democratic Base. Don't Abandon Them. [View all]brush
(53,764 posts)get African American and Latino sounding names off the voting roles in multiple states, openly ask for Russians to hack the Dems, Comey goes rogue 11 days before to torpedo Hillary, the EC, a relic from slavery, gives sparsely populated states votes more weight than deserved that is why Dems lost this election.
Those are the things we have to work at fixing.
The repugs know how to dog whistle and rile up the under-the-surface racism and misogyny out there in so many Americans. They're very good at that and it works on closet racists and misogynists.
IMO it's futile to go after them as they've been brainwashed with 30 years of extreme white wing radio and FOX.
We still outnumber them though and our demographic advantage continues to grow so let's work to stop their cheating and fix the EC. Let them have those who fall back on racism and misogyny instead of blaming the repugs whose policies are the ones allowing their jobs to go overseas and the safety net to be undermined.