14/ The liberals' only strategy was to attack Trump personally, which failed. People are not that gullible, which is to their credit.
15/ This election result goes back to 9/11 and the consequent American violence against innocent Middle Eastern people. This is the boomerang effect. When you start imperialist wars, and violate the norms of humanity, in the end it comes back to haunt you. The explosive situation created outside is replicated at home. We never resolved the war crimes of the Bush administration, that was an absolute no-go area for Obama. We kept playing with fire, with perpetual war abroad and terrorist fears constantly inflamed even eight years after Bush. This never-ending global chess game, killing people at will when our fancy strikes, is integrally connected with the Trump win.
16/ Note the terrorist events that occurred around the world like a metronomic beat all throughout the election campaign, propping up Trump's law and order message at moments of key vulnerability, and which have now ceased all of a sudden.
17/ This is the perfect bookend to election 2000, when the media was in the tank for Bush II, desperately wanting him to be president. They are reaping the results of what they sowed then: the illiteracy, dumbness, irrationality, and catering to the basest fears and instincts. Given who they are, they will draw all the wrong "lessons" from this debacle, and try to perpetuate their ignorance.
18/ By not taking the slightest steps to address economic inequality, neoliberals have plunged us into the abyss. Whenever we want even the slightest concessions, as in 2000, the system gives us something ten times more repressive to set us back. It is a system-wide failure, it is not just a failure of either political party. Trump is who we are, it is where we are, it is who we want to be, just as Bush was all those things to at least half the population.
19/ Trump, masterful strategist that he is, saw two bankrupt political parties, and seized control of one, as in his real estate dealings. Who will seize control of the bankrupt Democratic party now?
20/ A new political consensus will emerge eventually, though it may take a while. Both parties are dead, the neoliberal consensus is over. This is the first stage of either an authoritarian/inegalitarian political economy or a participatory/egalitarian one. The false center is gone.
21/ The neoliberal wing of the party had no intention of presenting any policy agenda, they were only prompted to concede a few things because of the pressure put by the Sanders wing. They have lost all credibility and should never be heard from again.
22/ Only Bernie Sanders has the moral authority to lead the Democratic party. Already he is insisting on fighting Trump tooth and nail, while Clinton is nowhere to be seen.
23/ Anyone who supports what the Clintons represent beyond this point doesn't deserve to be called a liberal.
24/ Clinton offered efficient managerial stewardship of the assets of the propertied class, including young professionals, which includes wise stewardship of the empire. That was the sum total of her philosophy, and Obama's too. This turned out to be extremely divisive, because the nation is more than that. Others have different priorities than neoliberal economic success.
25./Writers, intellectuals, academics, and artists in the public eye are nearly 100% with "the Dems." When I was in college it was ridiculous to be for the Dems. We were socialists, Marxists, radicals, anarchists, greens, freethinkers, rebels, secularists, hardcore feminists, utopians. What the hell happened to all of that? Young people should get away from the Dems, and build a green/socialist/egalitarian alternative, not just at the political party level but as a living reality, a transcendent goal of existence. Trump has done us a favor by blowing up the corporate Dems, they were never going to change on their own.
26/ This should be the end of the intensely anti-intellectual "liberal" websites and blogs, right? We know who they are, shoveling pure snark at anyone the least bit skeptical of the party line, designed to flatter the hip and cool young professionals with politically correct propaganda and little understanding of the reality of working people. Young people should educate themselves about the history of political economy, stop wasting time with this diversionary new media.
27/ Can we ever imagine Clinton or anyone from that side of the Democratic party touring Appalachia? The inner cities? Wherever the poor live? Not as a political stunt but with any degree of sincerity toward fellow citizens?
28/ Hillary tried to make the last two months of the election, along with her supporters in the liberal media, a referendum on rape culture! That's just not where the country was for this election. Bernie would have never brought up this stuff, it would have been a pure contest of economic ideas, his sane proposals to reform trade and taxation and immigration, versus Trump's lunatic ones.
29/ The only person on the planet Trump could have beaten was Hillary. The Democrats insisted on picking that one person.
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