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Originally Posted by WannaliveinGreenville
Some have been asking for almost two months now.... why did Hillary lose? She was not liked by America and she was crooked.  |
You will get a different answer from any Democrat you ask.
One factor was certainly Clinton herself.
Why do you think she's crooked?
Because she did some stupid things that led to unintended consequences that could have been avoided. I suspect you think she's crooked because of those things; one big one was using a private server for her email.
A private server used by a public official is something that creates suspicion. The government's servers are supposed to be secure, so there must be something shady going on, right?
Creating suspicion is stupid for any public official. Email has been shown that, if someone wants to dig hard enough, is never as secure as we think.
That's why Trump never uses it, and never has used it. The Democrats will never find any incriminating email from him because only his aides use email.
He only responds through faxing and handwritten documents. The convenience of email does not matter to those who don't use computers. Trump only uses his to Tweet. That's all he ever learned how to do on a computer. In that way, Trump is very smart; he has no electronic trail of anything he's ever done that can be traced back to him directly.
My personal belief as to why the Democrats failed is because the Democratic National Committee abandoned everything that Obama created when he won election twice. The party leadership failed its voters, and Hillary Clinton was entrenched in that leadership, along with her closest advisors and associates.
They all became far too concerned on holding on where the party was the strongest, and abandoned all the membership in the heartland- the Democrats who live in small and medium-sized cities, those who run small and medium-sized businesses, and all the common working men and women who have supported the party for decades through thick and thin.
It wasn't like the DNC didn't have a warning of what could happen. 2014 was the off-year election that should have showed the DNC they were in very deep trouble. The Democrats were swamped in 2014, and should not have been, if the leadership had done their job.
It was the same as what happened to the Republicans in 2006, when the voters had had a belly full of the neo-conservatvies and booted them out for Democrats.
But power is power, and power always deceives those who hold it. Just like the Republicans, the Democrats failed to change up when change was needed the most. The Republican failure of 2006 brought Michael Steele into the Chairmanship of the Republican Central Committee, and Steele changed nothing. Only after the defeat of 2012 did the RNC get a leader who understood the need for change, Reince Priebus.
So it is with the Democrats. Debbie Wasserman Shultz was every bit the party insider Steele was, and was just as intent on keeping party control in the well-heeled elite as Steele was. Clinton was part of that party elite, just like Mitt Romney was, and the last thing she wanted was someone like Bernie Saunders usurping her power. So her close friend Debbie tried to squash Saunders and his effective opposition.
This election is another in a string of brand new tests to our government. This time, we were willing to risk it all on an outsider once again, but Trump is a brand-new outsider, a black swan. No one ever thought a total outsider who was wealthy enough to self-finance an election could ever be elected before.
But then, no one ever thought that a black man would ever be elected to the Presidency, either. Or a woman. Or someone who had no white northern European heritage. 2016 showed they all could be elected because all were offered up for election.
Clinton did finally kick Derelict Debbie out of her position, but only when the damage had been done, and far too late for the campaign to change direction. Just like Steele, Romney, and Obama, Clinton could raise all kinds of money, and Wasserman Shultz was a good money-getter, too.
Money has ruled our elections for a very long time now. The elites always think they can win if they just spend enough on winning. This time, no one who wasn't an elite wanted big money to speak for them in either party.
That's why Jeb failed, Hillary failed, Cruz failed, and Rubio failed. And why Romney failed in 2012. This time, the common man had his way with the rich man. This isn't the first time it's happened, and it won't be the last. It's one of the ways we correct ourselves and our government.
Trump is our latest display of our unhappiness with the status quo.
The Democratic party is not any blinder to this than the Republican party. It will take time to re-group, because both parties involve millions of members, and nothing can happen fast in either, but in time, the Democrats will get their feet under them again, just as they always do, and as the GOP always does.
That ability has not disappeared. That's why both our major parties are over 100 years old. They have been long tempered by victory and defeat, and both have the resilience that comes from repeated tempering.
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