2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: TOWN HALL THREAD PART 2 - HILLARY is UP. Please be kind to each other... [View all]bettyellen
(47,209 posts)know that say FDR did not help POC or women nearly as he did white men, because basically we couldn't buy the houses, get the good jobs, etc and and many of our segments of the economy were shut out of social security.
And you had a lot of people who basically did not know that (because it wasn't their problem) lecturing us how they were some sort of golden years. That made some educated voters' jaws drop.
That coupled with the very frequent posts about "low info" or "stockholm syndrome" voters "falling for tactics"- our lives dismissed as mere "identity politics" instead of genuine issues- all by people who never gave much thought about who FDR was actually pulling for. Those ignorant lectures I think were the genesis of the clueless Bernie Bro idea. In my mind, many are just as self-interested and this revolution begins and ends with a pay increase- for them. I'm that cynical, and being summarily dismissed as a rube as was common early on in the campaign (and continues) did not help.
Thanks for listening without anger. There is just way too much hate out here right now to be able to have meaningful conversations at DU these days. I'm one hide away from gone for not hating on Hillary as it is.