30th March 2017, 4:44 AM
(This post was last modified: 30th March 2017, 7:20 AM by Dark Jaguar.)
Would a male candidate with Hillary's other flaws have lost? I'd say it would still have been close, but considering the race was already pretty close there's a possibility a male candidate would have squeaked ahead. As I said, sexism played a part, but the race should never have even been close, it should have been a blowout. I believe Elizabeth Warren would have been able to pull that off. She wasn't even a contender and she still got loads of people excited about the prospect of her running.
Hillary Clinton lacks charisma. No don't look at Bill. He's still charismatic. I'm talking about Hillary. Every word she says just oozes "this sentence was built in a lab, but we were forced to push the product out before it had undergone sufficient testing". The thing is, she was certain to be a better president than Trump. Heck I voted for her, but I wasn't enthusiastic about it, and trying to get some of my family members to even bother showing up at the polls was like pulling teeth. That's the problem with the democrats. They like to "play it safe" by leaning centrist so they don't alienate the other side too much. Well, I got news for them. THEY WILL NEVER EVER EVER CONVINCE A REPUBLICAN TO VOTE FOR THEM BY PLAYING CENTRIST! It isn't going to happen! They're already convinced the party are a bunch of liars, and that stupid commercial they ran only reinforced that.
You don't have to agree with the republicans, but it is absolutely fatal to fail to understand them. Not the cartoonish caricature you argue with in your head. That one's easy to win a debate with. Understand this. They don't like being pandered to with disingenuous folksy talk. Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren if she ever decided to run, are genuine and it comes off in their speeches. That can win an election.
Hillary Clinton lacks charisma. No don't look at Bill. He's still charismatic. I'm talking about Hillary. Every word she says just oozes "this sentence was built in a lab, but we were forced to push the product out before it had undergone sufficient testing". The thing is, she was certain to be a better president than Trump. Heck I voted for her, but I wasn't enthusiastic about it, and trying to get some of my family members to even bother showing up at the polls was like pulling teeth. That's the problem with the democrats. They like to "play it safe" by leaning centrist so they don't alienate the other side too much. Well, I got news for them. THEY WILL NEVER EVER EVER CONVINCE A REPUBLICAN TO VOTE FOR THEM BY PLAYING CENTRIST! It isn't going to happen! They're already convinced the party are a bunch of liars, and that stupid commercial they ran only reinforced that.
You don't have to agree with the republicans, but it is absolutely fatal to fail to understand them. Not the cartoonish caricature you argue with in your head. That one's easy to win a debate with. Understand this. They don't like being pandered to with disingenuous folksy talk. Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren if she ever decided to run, are genuine and it comes off in their speeches. That can win an election.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)