Presidential Election Aftermath: What Now / What Next?

Hey man, you want to get us all killed...

 

47% of people who had the right to vote , didn't ... WTF

 

The Clinton campaign totally screwed up. They sunk to his level, and instead of showing people what she offered, her campaign was focused on what trump was doing, feeding his machine. Unfortunately, trump is much better at mudslinging.

 

What are you talking about? Didn't you hear her? She kept saying "When they go low, we go high!" /sarcasm

 

It's not even just Trump it's that wikileaks and her political career hammered her. You can only call black/brown teenage boys "super predators", give hidden speeches to corporations and foreign powers, and con people out of money for Haiti aka your pocket so much before people stop supporting you even if it means voting for the orange faced racist.

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She was too much of a mark a** busta!! Where you at? Yeeeee.

 

- President-Elect Donald Trump

And yet, less than 48hrs after he won the election, there are already names being floated around for cabinet and advisory positions that include Wall Street executives, former Bush appointees, GOP establishment figures, etc. Hell, the guy leading this transition is Chris Christie whose own two former aids are convicted felons

People have been bamboozled.

 

You're right, i'll check back in a few weeks, when they become reality.

 

What is so bad about Hillary? The only real issue I had was her funding. She didn't lie about much, at least not outright, unlike trump. There is no measure under which you could say she's worse than this persona he was portraying to his base. I say that because now apparently "pro life" and "Muslim banning" has been taken off his site.

 

Probably, but i'm not really interested in joining hands and singing kumbaya to be quite honest.

Democrats, progressives, and liberals across the country need to mobilize and be prepared to obstruct and use any all legislative procedural BS like the Republicans did the last 8 years.

People can hate on that, and argue we should "join in unity", but if this was Hillary as President-Elect they would do the same thing.

 

Bernie had the perfect statement. He acknowledged that like him, Trump tapped into he frustrations that middle class America has with establishment politics and media. He said he's willing to work with Trump if he truly seeks to improve the lives of the struggling middle class. And then he said he would vigorously oppose any attempts from Trump's administration to enact anything racist/sexist/xenophobic.

That's how it should be. Don't gridlock the guy just for the sake of revenge for the last 8 years. Hear him out and TRY to work together because his campaign truly did tap into some things that middle class supporters from both sides could agree on.

I've said this before, but personally I don't think Trump is a bigot who wants to take away rights for all minorities as he's been portrayed. But he's now in bed with the establishment GOP who I tend to think has a large portion of greedy douches and zealots. So yes, if the GOP ends up puppeteering Trump into poor policy decisions that victimize the middle class, then yes the democrats need to fight that.

BUT the first step in doing that is to figure out what the Democratic Party even IS at this point. They need to clean house and start from scratch. Apparently Donna Brazille spoke to the DNC today and one person angrily asked why they should trust her to lead the party after the corruption she participated in for her personal gain helped give Trump the presidency ... But that was just one person. Reportedly everyone else drank Brazile's Kool Aid. If that's the case, they've learned nothing and they don't stand a chance of successfully organizing against a republican majority.

Fire everyone in power at the DNC, rebrand yourself as the party for the middle class with a huge emphasis on transparency and no corporate funding, and hand the keys to real progressives like Bernie and Warren.

 

You really think Donald Trump is going to take up Bernie Sander's offer?

Yea sure, work with Trump if he decides to rip up the TPP, but if you are liberal what else in his platform is progressive?

The Republicans are already at work to repeal Obamacare day one, construct a conservative bench in the Supreme Court, rip up the Paris Climate agreement, and the Iranian nuclear deal. Oh and if the rumors are true, and he installs Rudy Giuliani or Chris Christie to head the DOJ, those of us in California can say bye to Prop 64.

I'm gonna say this again to everyone on the Left. Liberals from the grassroots level to Congress needs to accept the outcome of the election, acknowledge Donald Trump as President, move on, and be ready to go to work and fight him.

And yea, like you said, clean house at the DNC.