Thread by @frodofied

"Making civil rights your lead issue is a losing strategy."

@HillaryClinton got 3 million more votes than her opponent. No one, not at any point in history, has gotten three million more anything and been considered "the loser."

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https://twitter.com/Viper19103/status/1033835870351187974

Assuming nothing else influenced the outcome, at worst Clinton lost by way of a technicality built into the system to protect slavery, The EC effectively asserts the supremacy of the minority.

Wyoming has 570,000 people, and gets 2 Senate seats and 3 EC votes.

@Viper19103

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California has 40,000,000 and gets 2 Senate seats and 55 EC votes.

Wyoming gets 1 Senator for every 260,000 people and 1 EC for every 170,000.

California gets only 1 Senator for every 20,000,000 and 1 EC for every 780,000.

That should be a civil rights issue right there 3/

So, her "loss" was the result of that unequal system and amounted to something like 80,000 across three States.

Add Voter Suppression
Gutting the VRA (Clinton was first Democrat to have to run w/o those voter protections)
Voter purges
And all of #TrumpRussia.

Your belief that she lost & willingness to be critical of her strategy belies the fact that by every reasonable measure but one archaic holdover from slavery, she annhilated him.

Now, instead of being angry about the ways #TrumpRussia highjacked our democracy, it's her strategy.

What about his strategy of tapping into people's fear, xenophobia, racism, misogyny, and homophobia to build a coalition of almost all white people?

Sanders argument of economic anxiety, which he needed to be true to remain relevant has been destroyed by the actual data.

Trump's win was precisely the result of the identity politics you're criticizing. And Sanders worst argument, which came later, that she didn't work hard enough to get the white working class vote is also a fucking play into IP but since it's invokves whites? Nope. POLITICS.

But Goddamn it Clinton's plan to strengthen the ACA, her college plan, her plan to fight opioid addiction, and every central tenet of her economic plan would have directly benefited these groups. But because she didn't address them "Dear White People" we get butthurt.

THEN because she/we did not hand out free blowjobs or something every slightly liberal dude wants to come at her and talk about how she's the problem.

And now you all want us to meet your demands so you'll gift our coalition with your straight white boy magic?

Bernie Sanders and his army of Bros have spent three years telling us how terrible we are, how horrible she is, and trying to dismantle the Democratic Party while largely leaving the fucking Republican enemy to feast on the pounds of our flesh that you guys have left trailing.

You are mecurial, self-centered children with no regard for any opinion but your own.

Your responses are revealing, "Don't play identity politics." and when I defend and define the concept you say "fine then keep losing white people and Sanders supporters." IDENTITY politics.

Hillary Clinton did her job.

Black people, particularly black women did their job.

Asians, Latinos and LGBTQs did their jobs.

The people that failed us we're mostly white, and mostly male.

And that had nothing to with policy.

It was all about ego, misogyny, and racism.

So, please come back everyday and lecture me about all the things that she couldn't do to make you happy.

Instead of getting to the root of the problem let's trash her more. B/c blaming & hating Hillary makes so much more sense than asking why the fuck we let the VRA be gutted.

Or why fuck white people are so fucking racist.

Do you know who the most consistently popular American politicians were between 2008 - 2015? It wasn't Sanders. It was fucking Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. I know that doesn't make sense now, but it's a fact, go check Gallup.

Even more shocking is that for long stretches it was straight Hillary Clinton.

Narrative shaking I know.

Then Republican character assassination, Russian bots, and yes, later Sanders all ground her to dust.

Day after day after day.

Hillary Clinton fail or suck, we did.

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