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http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/02/politics/what-is-hillary-clinton-thinking/index.html wrote:But her stunning rebuke this week of the DNC surprised and unsettled even her allies and former aides, who are fretting in private -- and some in public -- that Clinton is at risk of alienating Democrats who supported her loyally.

The GOP asks them to denounce elites — Hey, that’s voters like them! — and requires them not to believe in climate change. To be a “real Republican” now means to be economically illiterate on trade and immigration. These voters know immigrants aren’t stealing their jobs and that crime is substantially down in most American cities. (After all they work in increasingly diverse workplaces and live in diversifying suburbs — or have returned to gentrified cities.)

In sum, the GOP offends their intelligence and runs headlong into their hard-earned educational accomplishments and life experiences. These educated voters live in 21st-century America, but the loudest voices in the GOP — including the president and elected congressional leaders — do not. The latter believe government is evil, the world can be shut out, climate change is debatable and white Christian America is under assault (because we say “Happy Holidays”?!).

However, along with reason, science and respect for democratic norms, the GOP jettisoned much of the real-world agenda such voters had come to associate with their party. If they are going to be asked to associate with the flock of know-nothings who now populate the GOP and they’re not going to get a functional government, then why stick with the party? Many are not. They just do not know where to go.

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:It's sad to see you still obsess over a defeated candidate when you have someone in the white house who covertly and overtly pushes xenophobia and advances stunning falsehoods about economics, cities, crime, immigration, science, budgets and most every public policy topic.  

Hellsangel wrote:And now CNN headlines on their page:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/02/politics/what-is-hillary-clinton-thinking/index.html wrote:But her stunning rebuke this week of the DNC surprised and unsettled even her allies and former aides, who are fretting in private -- and some in public -- that Clinton is at risk of alienating Democrats who supported her loyally.

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:I really think the time is ripe for both parties to split. The extreme left Bernie supporters and the yahoos from the GOP should just split and go away. The people who remain can do business with each other.

Idéfix wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:It's sad to see you still obsess over a defeated candidate when you have someone in the white house who covertly and overtly pushes xenophobia and advances stunning falsehoods about economics, cities, crime, immigration, science, budgets and most every public policy topic.  

Because the present political reality is very hard to face for Trumpsters. While Trumptards occupy themselves with crazy conspiracy theories, Trumpsters are the terrified passenger who is looking exclusively at the rear-view mirror in order to avoid looking at the scary road ahead with Fat-Man Little-Boy at the wheel.

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:

Idéfix wrote:

MaxEntropy_Man wrote:It's sad to see you still obsess over a defeated candidate when you have someone in the white house who covertly and overtly pushes xenophobia and advances stunning falsehoods about economics, cities, crime, immigration, science, budgets and most every public policy topic.  

Because the present political reality is very hard to face for Trumpsters. While Trumptards occupy themselves with crazy conspiracy theories, Trumpsters are the terrified passenger who is looking exclusively at the rear-view mirror in order to avoid looking at the scary road ahead with Fat-Man Little-Boy at the wheel.