Hillary Clinton’s Popularity Lower than Trump’s [W:104]

ataraxia said:

What I find interesting is that he says he has degrees from Ivy League Universities. How did he manage to get through college, an Ivy League one nontheless, being this backward and ignorant? How did he even manage to get IN to one of those schools, let alone graduate from one? He can't even spell or string grammatically correct sentences together, or sustain a coherent line of thought for more than 5 seconds. Whoever gave him a diploma just oughta be shot. I am sure daddy's money had something to do with it.

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He transferred to Penn -- and the admissions officer was a friend of his brother. He did somehow manage to graduate. But not with honors in spite of the claim that he graduated at the top of his class.

ataraxia said:

No, you won't get any STFU from me. And believe me, many of us have been asking those hard questions. And the answers we have been coming up with are not very pretty, I am sorry to say.

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Again, I think it is seriously myopic and misguided to lay the blame for this electoral outcome at the feet of constituents; as stated before, the constituents wanted no part of this as turn out was atrocious, the zeitgeist was change while Hillary only spoke of how terrible Trump was as he was actually putting some on offer, Clinton won the popular vote, and both both candidates sucked though one was clearly (in my view at least) worse than the other. It is exactly the wrong take away to claim it was all the fault of Joe voter when he was given the choice, at the behest of a perverse and corrupt political process that universally and bi-partisanly aims to benefit the ultra-rich, between a foul-smelling mystery bag and a **** sandwich and, under the coercion of the EC, decided to chance the former over the latter in the desperate hope it just might not be as bad: with life expectancy on the decline, inflation adjusted wages stagnating since the early 70s while the rich are more prosperous than ever, manufacturing continuing to hollow out on a per-capita/factory basis without recourse, and inequality both in terms of economics and representation at one of its worst nadirs in modern history, what has he got to lose?

You're simply not asking yourself the hard questions by faulting exclusively, or even primarily, the electorate and America at large.

I maintain that Carlin's other musings on American political life, and the corruption of its processes by private money (the club of owners) are and remain far more applicable and relevant.