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Originally Posted by einbert
The natural extension of the unhealthy preoccupation Americans have with meritocracy is to apply it to every last situation--even situations where there is clearly cheating/favoritism going on. You see this clearly in many reactions to the election, and more fundamentally, you see it in many Americans' reactions to not obtaining the American dream.
You had double the money and your opponent was Donald Trump. Nothing short of actual vote rigging makes this anything short of gross incompetence. Please stop trying to make the **** in our mouths taste like bubble gum. We don't appreciate it.
So either provide proof of wide spread vote rigging (which didn't happen sorry!) or accept that we need a major rethink of our tactics as a party. Wishing for the era of Democratic dominance in the legislature when everyone was collegial isn't a strategy for the current political metagame. This is a war and we need to grow up and start treating it like one.
We need to get a lot more realistic about how we see the world in a hurry. It's not enough to just call your opponent a racist/sexist/monster and just wait for everyone to vote against that. You have to destroy his entire political party. The only way to do that is to start at the bottom and contest EVERYTHING. Spend money on ****ty local races, POUR money into state level races, and start asking the left leaning marketing gods out there what they think our messaging should look like.
And the next time some hapless Democrat tries to stop us from having a public option in our Health Plan that person needs to be investigated by the FBI and the IRS in an almost definitely illegal way. They need to be facing the full force and power of the party, the offices that party controls, and every activist that can be turned on with an email blast. There is tolerable disloyalty and there is being a traitor. We need to rediscover how to play this game. That persons kids should need bodyguards like Megyn Kelly's did.
EDIT: Next time if we can't find a likeable governor let's just run one of the smarter celebrities. Not sure which one, but charisma is the one non negotiable thing a nominee for a major political party has to have.