2016 Postmortem

Sure we won the popular vote, but come on, for so many of the independents, moderate republicans, and even some Democrats who voted for Hillary, they said they did so because to them she was the lesser of two evils. Not evil to us, but to THEM. Did I vote for Hillary because I thought she was the lesser of two evils? Absolutely not. I voted for her because I thought she would make a good president, but I also thought she was too flawed in other peoples' minds to win in 2016, until Trump came along, and then I thought she would have a chance. Unfortunately the damage that was done to Hillary over the course of the last few decades, courtesy of the right wing think tanks, had taken so much of a toll on her that it was pretty much irreversible in the minds of a few too many voters.

Do I think Hillary sent the right message? Of course I do, but unfortunately there were too many people who had already made their minds up about her long before the election even began, and nothing was going to change that.

Do I think we should dumb down Democratic Party? Appeal to the types of people you stated in your last paragraph of your last post? Why would you even ask me that? I don't think the Democratic Party should be dumbed down. On the contrary, I think it needs some smartening up, smartening up as in a common sense manner. Like a common sense approach to reaching out to those people on the other side of the fence instead of painting them as if all of them are as evil as Trump himself. If we don't figure out how to reach those people, then we aren't going to win. We need go go after a significant number of the ones on the other side, otherwise the electoral college will continue to get the best of us.