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You can keep writing all these letters mocking middle America, but the cause was you.
This election mattered/matters.
Democrats had a chance to be in control of the Executive branch and Congress. It was ours to have. And we will lose because of hubris of in the intellectual elite.
You can talk down to all of small town stupid America, but their attitudes are not new or surprising. Did you really believe racism didn't exist? Did you believe that everyone would see past unrelateablity and elect the chosen one?
I have believed from the beginning that this election year we needed a safer bet. (An Aside: who would have thought HRC would have been the safe choice?) Democrats NEEDED to win this election and won't. And all of us enlightened, liberal, open-minded people can talk about the decline of America, but this wasn't a surprise and forcing this candidate on the populous was the real reason we will see 4 more years of the same.
If you wanted a win you should have thought about who was picking the winner.
