No one wants to vote for identity politics and for canidates whose press endorsements are Beyonce GIF Buzzfeed articles.

The alt rights rise shows that the culture war is far from over. For every little 10 year old burrito with a makeup video on NowThis there are ten /pol/ posters shitposting the comments.

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Howard Dean was right 13 years ago and many don't understand it today. Hell, Harold Washington called on a grass roots base 34 years ago and democratic "leadership " still don't respect that. Reagan preached it early on, but we still haven't learned the lessons from the beating he delivered

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

That guy kind of looks like Connor McDoink.

The Democrats did have a grassroots candidate in the primary (who I disagree with vehemently, but I'll acknowledge his appeal). They did everything they could to knock him out of the way for their anointed one.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

I think the same thing about Trump. He should have reached across the aisle for small infrastructure projects in rust belt states and doomed the democratic party for 8 years. The media and his opponents would have been in a bigger vacuum than they're in now.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Also should get punched by a homeless person.

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I voted for him AND Jerry Brown in 92.

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

Hollow victory but I'm glad this will at least shut up the Clinton campaign wankers liker Brian Fallon who think the Dems' path to success is appealing to upper middle class suburban "Panera voters." Maybe now they'll focus on becoming a left party that actually stands for the lower class. A boy can dream.

Hillary Obsession Syndrome at work yet again.

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Obscures the fact that he easily dispatched 16 other Republicans in order to get to her. Oh if only it had not been Hillary we would not be stuck with the functionally illiterate goof.

At some point American people have to own their vote. If a person can t be responsible for his vote then what can he be responsible for?

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Didn't Trump win because he appealed to the working class white male?

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Identity politics is only a handicap when Hispanics, Blacks, Gays, Women and other minorities practice it. When white men practice it it's not considered detrimental. Funny how that works isn't it?

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That draem is, over libtard. Get a new one. The libtards told the poor too go screw themseves once they nominaed a corupt wealhy high society POS from new York city. As if the working clas are dumbe enuff to think someone like that will have there interests at heart. And who gives a shit abut the workin classe neway. If they worke hard and sold there i phones they wuldnt be poor in the first place.

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libtard's personfied:

One of the CNBC commentators had it right this morning. If the Dem had won that Georgia seat, it would have had Congressional Republicans running for the hills. Then there would be no chance at "reforms" in the tax code, healthcare, and Dodd Frank. They're still gonna mess those things up, me thinks.

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I'm not sure that is wrong though. The Democrats have failed middle class voters just as much as Republicans have.

It isn't as big of an example as others but here is one example. Flex spending accounts. These were a great benefit to the middle class. It didn't really provide a great benefit to the rich since it ended up being a much less proportion of their total income they were "saving". For some reason, the Democrats desperately wanted to get rid of it and they did find ways to make them much less effective. Their reasoning was that it was "unfair to the poor" who couldn't afford to save that money. Do you honestly think a millionaire cares that he can't get a tax free account to pay for his kids cough medicine? Of course not. Are the poor people better off since a middle class family can't? Of course not.http://www.nbcnews.com/id/40115654/ns/health-health_care/t/over-the-counter-meds-be-cut-flexible-spending-accounts/#.WUppNmjytPY

So why do this? It's because the Democratic party, for reasons that probably have to do with wanting to be re-elected, think that the poor are the key to keeping power so almost all of the things they do are designed to keep them voting Democrat. Even Obamacare was something that cost many middle class families more money or had their cost of healthcare raise in price.

To put it another way, let's say you are a person who is middle class to slightly upper middle class, and someone asks you "What is the best thing the Democrats have done for you in the past 12 years?" What is the answer? To take it a step further, what is the one thing they fought hard for that would have been great for you during that time period?

The biggest failing of both Republicans and Democrats is ignoring the middle class in favor of the extremes.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

I live in this congressional district and am pretty shocked with how the Dems campaigned it. The worst enemy of the democratic party is its own members. Someone from the Osseff campaign rang my doorbell 5 times in the last week. The attitude from the campaign was Ossoff is great, how can anyone be so stupid as to not vote for him.

You didn't see many clinton/trump signs in the neighborhood. Ossoff campaign pushed signs on people, and once up it was soon surrounded by Handel signs. Why the fuck were they pressing for votes in very republican areas. I have to imagine must of their work pushed people to vote republican as punitive punishment for their annoyance.

Also the Dem supporters kept spamming neighborhood pages and being very argumentative with anyone not Dem.

I did vote Ossoff only because I want the R's checked up at some point. But I'm happy they lost because fuck them for annoying me.

I get the annoying part. But our politics would be much better off if both parties fought for all voters and found issues that appeal to a wide range of voters. It is an absolute crime that Republicans do not reach out to black voters for instance.

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After 8 years of racist rhetoric and policies that divided the nation can you really blame them? It is that kind of rhetoric that divided the nation after Rodney King was apprehended in Los Angeles.

A lawmaker on Tuesday defended Donald Trump by saying accusations of racism could also be lodged against President Obama.

"You can easily argue that the president of the United States is a racist with his policies and his rhetoric," Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-N.Y.) said during an appearance on CNN's "At This Hour."

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"You will find the similarities with Hitler lie with Obama that the media tries to conceal and discover they are just throwing mud at Trump in the hope that some of it sticks."

So very true.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Furthering that point, the Obama admin proposed doing away with 529s. Those are great tools for the middle class, but poor people weren't using them so they figured it would be fine to do away with them. Thankfully there was a lot of backlash on that so it never came to fruition.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

No--it was turning a stable middle class into an unstable working class.

Edit: In addition to that

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The Democrats have really catered to the poor because of your flex spending account? Holy shit, you are out of touch with most of the country.

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

I don't even think you read the whole post.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

sounds right

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Please enlighten us on how a more liberal D candidate wins in a historically hard R district? You fucking shithead. I should drive over to your house and rip your fucking heart right out of your chest!

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6'1", 250 lbs. and barrel-chested. 9.5 inches, uncut. You don't want any of this. Or maybe you do.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Christ Almighty--the original was one of the most disturbing images I've seen this side of Reddit.

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I don't think this is gendered. Could be wrong.

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If the Democratic Party really thought the poor were the key to keeping power, they wouldn't have countered a woman screaming about how women should die of breast cancer with some asshole who looks good in a suit talking about how he identified some budget redundancies in Microsoft Excel. Poor people don't vote.

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