History of Feminism
In reply to the discussion: "A small group" is responsible for all that ails DU [View all]DonCoquixote
(13,754 posts)When frankly all sides were on their worst behavior, where people trotted out so many "My minority deserves to win and yours sucks" posts it showed how truly low things had gotten. The actual merits of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were ignored, outright discarded.
Now, the old cliche of "angry white male" is weaker, but mostly because women and minorities got to the polls and did the work that these men used to claim all the credit for. Let's face it, the stronger candidates on the Democratic side are Women, and to be even more frank, the GOP has a list of Female candidates ready to leap right into the cockpit when their favored candidates crash dive. Simply put, these folks used to be the gatekeeper of everything, and they now know that when they talk to us, it is not the old "OK, I will be polite to you, but you know you will give me exactly what i want, exactly how I want it, and if you are nice, I may do something nice, not that I am in any fucking way obligated to!"
So they will get on the internet and try to be the cowboys and action heroes they thought they were destined to be. It's like a reverse of the movie FIGHT CLUB. I say the reverse in that instead of actually attacking the corporations and politicians that really DID emasculate them, they pick on those that they falsely perceive as weak.
That's ok little boys, we will save this country, despite you. And we know better than to ask you to thank us, because we know you do not have the integrity or the honesty to admit you were fools.