Our New President - President Donald Trump

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Sorry, I didn't take you for a Bernie Sanders supporter. Since you called me a Berniecrat. lol.

berniecrat is a badge of honor. i was trying to compliment you.

Yeah Berniecrat sounds like bureaucrat. That word doesn't have good connotations.

Thanks. Sorry about that. lol. I'm so used to Republicans using Berniecrat as a negative term. haha

miscommunication - cause of 4/5 of the world's problems -

Any former Hillary people like me here?

I've never liked Hillary Clinton. I was one of those "Bernie or Bust" people. If I was an American citizen, I would have voted for Jill Stein in the general election. And then after Trump beat Hillary, I was like "yeah, that's what you get for rejecting Bernie!" I didn't believe in voting for the lesser of two evils. But then after awhile (somewhere between November 9th and January 20th I think) it started to sink in that we are doomed with a Trump presidency.

The problem with voting for the lesser of two evils though is that if you keep doing that. 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, nothing really changes. You're just preventing things from getting worse basically. Eventually the Democrat Party needs to move forward. The Democrats haven't moved forward since when? John F Kennedy? Barack Obama might have actually been the best Democrat we had since Kennedy and Obama was a disappointment. Maybe Jimmy Carter was better.

Think about it. Who did we have since Kennedy?
- Lyndon B. Johnson 1963-1969 (warmonger)
- Jimmy Carter 1977-1981 (this is when the Democrats have started to shift more to the center)
- Bill Clinton 1993-2001 (worst Democrat president ever)
- Barack Obama 2009-2017 (an improvement over Clinton but still a warmonger. Dragged his heels on Keystone XL and the Dakota Access Pipeline. Police brutality)

At least 2017-2020 is an opportunity for the Democratic Party to rebuild (but Trump is going to do so much damage just in 2017-2018 alone, if the Democrats can't at least get the Senate in 2019, it's going to be ugly). Though they didn't do themselves any favors by electing Tom Perez as the Chair of the DNC.

I'll bet Hillary would have been a warmonger too.

Hillary wasn't going to ban Muslims, she wasn't going to deport 11 million people,

The Democrats are not going to win the senate in 2018, Period

Look at the map it is awful, you have allot democratic senators up for reelection in solid red states and all the Republican senators up for reelection are in solid Trump supporting states.

She was the less bad option. My point is that Democrats have been voting for the less bad option for the past how many years now? Where has this got us? Voting for the less bad option is a defensive maneuver. Bernie Sanders should have been our nominee. He would have destroyed Trump. But now he's getting up there in years and may not run in 2020.

The Democratic Party got complacent and arrogant and it cost them the Presidency, House and Senate. Even with all the gerrymandering done with the house districts, studies show that the reason why the Democrats lost the House in 2010-2016 is because liberals tend to congregate within urban enclaves. Leaving the vast swath of rural and many suburban areas to the Republicans. We don't have enough liberals living in rural and suburban areas. This is why the liberals have the popular vote but keep losing the House (and lately the Senate and Presidency). Because the political system is based on geographic divisions. If you ever looked at a county voting map of the United States it's a sea of red with some blue urban and some suburban zones. It doesn't matter how many people vote. If the Democrats win by 30% in an urban district but the Republicans win by only 3% in a suburban district, it's still the same result. Democrats 1, Republicans 1. It's about who wins the most districts.

The bottom line is that Hillary Clinton failed to energize her side to vote. She was the worst Democrat candidate in a long time. While Trump did a very good job of riling up his side to wake up early and head to the polls first thing. All those liberals in swing states and swing districts who stayed at home could have been the difference maker. And it's Hillary's fault for not getting those voters more excited. It's not like voters owed her the vote. If politicians feel like they can always rely on our vote and take us for granted, they have no incentive to do anything. And that describes exactly the Democratic Party MO for the last 50+ years maybe. They don't feel like they have to try because they think "our base will always vote for us."

The Democratic Party needs to rebuild and get rid of the old corporate establishment guard and replace them with progressive candidates if they want to win. Voting in Tom Perez as Chair of DNC over Keith Ellison is the wrong direction. This could be a new dark age for the Democratic Party if they don't change course in 2018 and 2020.

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(sorry, i could not resist making the connection)

i am not so quick to think that trump has so much influence over the *whole* planet as you may imagine, but those outside the country are still justified in their worries.



autism may have payed a very small part in in their ballot decision, or none at all. i know my own decision was not at all influenced by it.

an autistic person who has managed to secure for him/herself good income and has good support (a portion of people on here, i believe), may have other things to worry about...some of us here are in situations where trump's policies do appeal.

But..... Why should YOU care, you're Canadian / live-in Canada?

She was paying you, a compliment----and, I don't think she's anywhere NEAR being a Republican; and, she must not know you're a Canadian, cuz you could be a Berniecrat everyday, and twice on Sunday, and it would NOT matter.

How do you figure telling someone they're old, and are gonna kick-the-bucket, in a few years, is good manners? Here's the way I look at it.....

Coming to WP (or, any forum site, FTM), is like coming to a party, to which you've been invited, but you don't know anyone..... Would you walk into a party, in person, and walk right up to someone's face and tell them they were old, and they were gonna kick-the-bucket, in a few years? I don't think you would----so, please don't do it, here.

You've only been here a couple of months, and nearly every post you've made has been about how angry you are, how you've been mistreated because you're an Autist, and barking at someone to not discount your experiences.....

Give us a break, already!!

Just spent time on the "General Forum". Many have 150+ IQ there. Surely, that translates into job success.