brimstoneSalad wrote:EquALLity wrote:
As for sexism, I don't think it swung the election, but there are some people (fundamentalist Christians mostly) who don't believe in female leaders.
Absolutely true, but they wouldn't have voted for her anyway because they are pro-life. So unless they abandoned fundamentalism entirely (and not just the sexism part of it) she didn't have a shot with them.
EquALLity wrote:
I think the major issue, like I said above, is that Hillary represented the establishment.
Her platform didn't appeal to enough people get get a safe margin over Trump to protect against these other issues. There are a number of ways she could have fixed it. Being anti-establishment may have, but would have also alienated her base.
She probably should have adopted more of Sanders' good policies earlier on, but if she didn't address unemployment and the loss of manufacturing jobs and energy sector jobs, I don't think that would have helped much.
That's true, but there are also people who aren't very religious but who are generally 'old fashioned' and don't think that women should be leaders.
Her base was primarily people begrudgingly voting for her out of fear for Trump. Most people didn't like her.
The base of America in general is anti-establishment, which is why Bernie Sanders, an unknown Senator from Vermont, almost beat her in the primaries and was the only candidate who had positive favorability ratings.
I know this is anecdotal, but I spoke with a number of people while phone-banking, and know people personally, who voted for Hillary in the primaries (or would have if I didn't bother them
) because they thought she had a better chance of winning EVEN THOUGH they preferred Bernie. The energy was with him. There's no base of anti-establishment voters.
Yeah, she supported very bad trade deals for American workers, and I agree that it certainly hurt her. Bernie was against them and won lots of the Rust Belt (remember the unprecedented and completely unexpected win in Michigan?).
Perhaps if they actually listened to Bernie's campaign when they were trying to help in the Rust Belt, things may have turned out differently. But they did exactly the opposite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XIiz9afv-A
