I'm a democrat and a moderate. However, it seems the Democratic Party has bee overrun by elitist intellectual liberals -- what Joe Biden called "Limousine Liberals".
The main reason why Hillary Clinton lost was NOT because a bunch of bigots voted for Trump, but because the Democratic Party abandoned and ignored working class Americans.
The intellectual elitists (those "Limousine Liberals") who are running the Democratic Party concentrated their efforts on wooing upper-middle class professionals (soccer moms/soccer dads and such), young millennials who are one their way to being upper-middle class soccer moms/dads, and lower class urban minorities.
That last group (the lower class urban minorities) were not "wooed" as much as they simply were promised by the elitists liberals "Don't worry you poor downtrodden lower middle class people. If you stand behind the democratic party, we will protect you"...with an unspoken emphasis on the "stand behind" part.
In the mean time, the working-class (lower-middle income people) were ignored. Most likely because the people running Hillary's campaign probably figured that the minority members of the working class would automatically side with them. However, they were wrong about the veracity of their support. Many black and Hispanic working class people felt they had more in common with plight of white working class people than they had in common with lower-class minorities.
While the liberal-left wing of the democratic party thinks all minorities might think the same way simply because they are minorities, the actual INDIVIDUALS who happen to be minorities think mainly based on their socioeconomic situation rather than the color of their skin. So the issues a black working-class person may think are important are more in line with what a white working-class person feels is an important issue rather than what a lower-class urban minority thinks is important.
The working class (black and Hispanic members of working class along with white members of the working class) feel left out and ignored in the process. That's why much of middle-America could get themselves to believe in Hillary enough to vote for her. They did not feel she cared about them.
The difference between my view as a moderate democrat and the view of the elitists "Limousine Liberal" democrats is that the Limousine Liberals don't trust the lower class people to make their own decisions. They say they want to protect them, but while doing so, they treat them like some helpless little bird with a broken wing.
...Back to Pauley Perrette:
While I'm not going to judge her on her political ideology, I think she's missing the point of why Trump got elected. And that's because the working class was completely ignored by the people currently in charge at the Democratic Party. Tthose in charge made it a point to woo white Hollywood because they knew white Hollywood had a high soapbox.
I hate to say it, but I think Pauley (like many Americans who didn't vote for Trump) may mean well, and have her heart in the right place, the reality of it is that the liberal left wing of the Democratic Party fed her a line, and she fell for it.
Sure, we all want to help our fellow human beings, but the question is: what's the best way to help? The answer to helping the lower class lift themselves up should not include ignoring the working class.
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phillipds777
7 years ago
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It's called a remote control. It has a channel up button, a channel down button, and a power off button. Get familiar with this device, learn to use it.
How can we expect the world to trust in a loving God, when His followers can be so full of hate?
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eel2178
7 years ago
That's why much of middle-America could get themselves to believe in Hillary enough to vote for her. They did not feel she cared about them.
I think all she cared about was going down in the history books as the first woman president. Once she accomplished that, I don't think she had a real plan for what to do next. After the election, one of reporters who had interviewed her (sorry, I don't remember who) said when he asked her why she wanted to be president her answer was, "Because we're stronger together." She really had nothing more to offer than that.
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