Let's be honest. What was this election really about? Why is this happening everywhere?

[openfire]

I know why this is happening and I saw this coming a decade ago.. Didn't know when it would happen, but I knew it would happen in my lifetime.

Leave the PC at the door. I'm interested in your thoughts...

 

[otherone]

 

[dean.engelhardt]

I think a lot of people looking at the raise in health insurance premiums for 2017 decided they could not afford Clinton. My best friend's premium are going from $1,100/mo to $2,000/mo. That transcends party loyalty or concerns about global warning.

 

[asurfaholic]

I don't know. Shame that someone as corrupt as Clinton could still be so close to winning the election. Pretty scary actually.

But then I think about who she ran against and it starts to make sense.

 

[Jesse James]

They are trying to end White civilization, mostly "white men", and Trump just ended it.

 

[RJB]

The working man has his job shipped overseas or is replaced by illegal immigrants, but all the democrats were outraged about was whether transgenders could use the bathroom of their choice.

The only bone that was thrown to him was seen as a slap to the face: He was promised a living wage to work at McDonalds, when he feels like he was born to make cars.

So the honorable working class man became the uneducated angry redneck and the Democrats became the party of bureaucrats and academics.

 

[CaptUSA]

People do not like Hillary Clinton. That's what this election was about. Her potential voters didn't care to turn out for her, and the people who hate her turned out to vote against her.

How many times did you have to hear, "well, I don't like Trump, but we can't have Hillary win!!"


This election was a mandate on Hillary Clinton. And it was sweet! (Don't misread the mandate)

 

[tod evans]

Let's be honest. What was this election really about?

The status quo.

People are sick of it for many varied reasons depending on their personal situation.

Why is this happening everywhere?

Because there are too many people 'everywhere'..

 

[UWDude]

How many times did you have to hear, "well, I don't like Trump, but we can't have Hillary win!!"

That is the PC answer. In all reality, his supporters were highly energized by him.

To the OP:
He won because he made calculated appeals to a wide swath of people. He won because he knew he had to, and he did whatever was necessary, and said whatever was necessary to win. He did not win to save the white race. He won to save the United States, and the ideals of the United States. He realizes white people are a part of the US, but he does not define the US as white.

 

[tod evans]

In all reality, his supporters were highly energized by him.

I have read this opinion on the interwebs but have yet to actually hear somebody voice it.

Then again my social circle doesn't include many between the ages of 14 and 45..

 

[CaptUSA]

That is the PC answer. In all reality, his supporters were highly energized by him.

Yes, but he didn't win because of his supporters. He won because people didn't show up for Hillary. He won because lots and lots of people turned out to vote against Hillary. If it was just his supporters, the result would have been far different. Obviously, as a supporter of his, you are misreading the mandate. The real mandate is that people did not want Hillary. (Hell, even Trump's campaign used that strategy for the last month!) (Even among his "supporters" the biggest cheer line - even bigger than "build the wall" - was "lock her up!")

 

[A. Havnes]

People do not like Hillary Clinton. That's what this election was about. Her potential voters didn't care to turn out for her, and the people who hate her turned out to vote against her.

How many times did you have to hear, "well, I don't like Trump, but we can't have Hillary win!!"


This election was a mandate on Hillary Clinton. And it was sweet! (Don't misread the mandate)

This, and it's not a PC answer, it's the correct one. Yes, Trump had very energized supporters, but not nearly enough to carry him to victory. Many of his votes came from people like me: people who didn't like him at all, but who also didn't want Hillary in the White House. Had it been anyone other than Hillary, I would have voted third-party again.

I only know one person who was a die-hard Trump supporter - everyone else either refused to vote for either candidate or were willing to hold their nose and vote Trump to avoid what could effectively be eight more years of Obama.

Had it been Hillary vs. Literally Anyone Else, she would have lost just the same.

If it had been Trump vs. Literally Anyone Else, I honestly don't think he could have won. The race was close enough as it was, and if Bernie had actually gotten the nomination, he would have wiped the floor with Trump and we'd be heading towards a crazy, Socialist administration.

 

[Indy Vidual]

I know why this is happening and I saw this coming a decade ago.. Didn't know when it would happen, but I knew it would happen in my lifetime.

Leave the PC at the door. I'm interested in your thoughts...

I wish I was more optimistic:
Trump is the strong leader who will use his entertaining charm to help us accept RFID chips, FEMA camps, and "droning" rebels right here at home. There is no place to hide YOU WILL get to be Great Again!


Edit: I intentionally posted before reading the thread.
The level of denial here is shocking. How often does Trump use the words individual freedom?

How many of you understand the USA just elected a brutal dictator?

 

[timosman]

Testing the domestication of the american voter. Turns out the domestication process is not complete. Yet.

 

[gaazn]

This was predicted four years ago with Rick Santorum's strong insurgent campaign against Romney. No money but almost whupped him in the Midwest including his home state of Michigan. Also Herman Cain's surges made any random business leader a contender, even if it was only Godfather's Pizza! Trump saw this and ran with the ball.

 

[timosman]

This was predicted four years ago with Rick Santorum's strong insurgent campaign against Romney. No money but almost whupped him in the Midwest including his home state of Michigan. Also Herman Cain's surges made any random business leader a contender, even if it was only Godfather's Pizza! Trump saw this and ran with the ball.

lol

 

[Ender]

This is the culmination of the ignorance of Americans.

The fact that most did not know or understand the questionable background of either candidate; do not understand our foreign policy or have any idea of real history; do not understand the difference between a democracy and a republic; have no knowledge of sound money; do not have a glimmer of what real liberty is- shows how successful public "education" has really been.

 

[CaptUSA]

This, and it's not a PC answer, it's the correct one. Yes, Trump had very energized supporters, but not nearly enough to carry him to victory. Many of his votes came from people like me: people who didn't like him at all, but who also didn't want Hillary in the White House. Had it been anyone other than Hillary, I would have voted third-party again.

I only know one person who was a die-hard Trump supporter - everyone else either refused to vote for either candidate or were willing to hold their nose and vote Trump to avoid what could effectively be eight more years of Obama.

Had it been Hillary vs. Literally Anyone Else, she would have lost just the same.

If it had been Trump vs. Literally Anyone Else, I honestly don't think he could have won. The race was close enough as it was, and if Bernie had actually gotten the nomination, he would have wiped the floor with Trump and we'd be heading towards a crazy, Socialist administration.

This is exactly right. In a strange way, I suppose we can thank God that Hillary Clinton's corruption led to the defeat of Bernie Sanders.

 

[thoughtomator]

This election's bottom line was whether or not the Rule of Law was worth preserving.

Sadly most of the infants left here couldn't find their way to the correct answer.

Which validated so many criticisms of libertarians as being unserious and not interested in anything beyond some favorite subject such as smoking weed, gay marriage, or, for too many here, open borders.

And even now some people here can't figure out that it would have been a really really bad idea to put the worst criminal any political system has ever produced into the Oval Office... the brainwashing level is absolutely extraordinary, even more so because there's not a damn person here with an excuse not to know better.

 

[TheCount]

I know why this is happening and I saw this coming a decade ago.. Didn't know when it would happen, but I knew it would happen in my lifetime.

Leave the PC at the door. I'm interested in your thoughts...

If you were hoping that people would come in and say that this is a white race thing, only white nationalists and SJWs believe that.