Trump

[Birdman1811]

Well I see we're all taking the election result well. Groupthink has a lot to answer for I guess. Prime example the Selzer poll last week. Ended up being 17 points out but latched onto by never-Trump folk like a life jacket on the Titanic. There's a clip of Rory Stewart (which with no hint of irony his own podcast has clipped up and published) doing the rounds which sums far too many people up imo, utter self delusion and wildly out of touch: Here. 

The Dems made a litany of missteps, and this is just off the top of my sleep deprived head, weaponising the judiciary against Trump,  he was a footnote until that mugshot; latterly hiding Biden's cognitive decline, then doubling down and proceeding with the primary, pulling him out too late, installing an unelectable candidate without any democratic process, who cant answer a question without a teleprompter, ducked interviews, giggled and freestyled her way through the softballs she did agree to take, had no track record of success or excellence in previous roles. Picking an extremely strange character as running mate. Providing no policy aside from 'Trump bad Hitler man'. Not distancing themselves from Biden's record despite his popularity rating tanking. All this against a backdrop of the network media machine providing an approx 80 percent positive narrative around her campaign, Hollywood stars and other celebrities endorsing her constantly and consistently, comfortably outspending the GOP campaign. It's failure on an epic scale. There has to be some serious introspection done because Trump has unfettered power as they also have both houses. It could be a generation before the Democrats are in a position to challenge again and it's entirely self inflicted.

Further, If you don't see this result as an absolute rejection of liberal ideologies, leftism generally and despite my disdain for the word, wokery then no lessons will be learned. 

As an aside, absolutely mental we still haven't heard from her.

But to some these are important, I'm what is somehow leftist nowadays, all I want is that people can live and love who they want as they want consensually without government intervention. To make an equitable society that works for everyone. And those who determine their like of someone based on race, sexuality, gender etc to be laughed at as the throwbacks they are. 

I like to think we're actually quite fair in the UK, my worry is the small group of idiots will be emboldened and grow now with the likes of Tommeh Robinson and Farage fueling them with Trumps win. In the US, that is still a big issue, more Americans than you'd like still think segregation was a positive.