Hillary Clinton

The Perpetrator Pretends to Be a Victim

It’s a funny thing about fraud. It’s a bit like poisoning a well. Once you’ve done it, there’s not really any going back, either for the water or for you. I guess people wanting to use the well could conceivably purify the water after the fact, but that would take both an honest assessment of the poisoning, and expert knowledge of how to get poison out of water. Lacking either of those elements, the water is poisoned—that’s that.

The Completely Inappropriate American Election of 2016 — A Timeline of Assumptions

This is a brief outline of what happened in the United States during a global election cycle that was driven by a pent-up demand for profound political change.

Bernie Sanders did not have a complete plan when he announced his run for the Presidency in 2015. Along the way, he set in motion many disparate things that were already struggling to take form. As they coalesced, the election gameboard changed. Thus, the strategies changed, and for Bernie, the goals changed, as well.

Revisiting one of the flawed arguments Clinton loyalists used against Bernie Sanders...

...that was revealed to have been utterly delusional last week.

Remember their claim that Bernie had not yet been targeted by the Republican slander machine as she had been? And how we should assume that her experience with these assaults necessarily makes her much more adept at weathering them than Bernie could ever hope to be?

Here's one sample of this reasoning that I found with a google search:

An Intervention for Clinton Supporters: Time for a Political Divorce!

In response to all the rants from the Clinton supporter's blaming everyone else but the Clintons/DNC/and their many surrogates, for the spectacular failure of the Clinton Campaign, I would like to offer them this intervention.

The Self-Serving Stupidity of Denise Oliver Velez

In the days to come, there will be many discussions of how Donald J. Trump ascended to the presidency. Just at a glance, many factors come to mind: the economic straits faced by much of America and the Washington elites' failure to address such problems, the Democrats' nomination of the one candidate Trump could actually beat, and lingering resentment among some white people of the presidency of Barack Obama.

Daily Kos front pager Denise Oliver Velez, however, has a simpler explanation for what happened: racism. People did not vote for Hillary Clinton because they hated African Americans and Hispanics. That simple.

For those who have the temerity to suggest that if the DNC had nominated a different candidate for president, they might have won, Oliver Velez has this to say:

This movement of ugly angry white people and their deluded not-white lackeys should be a wake up call to you all.

You can keep on posting diary after diary on how this loss is Hillary’s fault, Obama’s fault, Markos’ fault, black people’s fault, latinos fault — but in the end it ain’t gonna change things.

You can keep fantasizing about Bernie woulda... coulda.

Nothing will change till the white left decides to embrace anti-racism and anti-misogyny.

Got a message for you.

Denial is not a river in Egypt.

My Gut Reaction: Wake up, Denise. This past election was the Toilet Bowl, and you backed the turd that sank.

Analysis below the fold....

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