couple of things:
1. most of Hillary's votes came from the South, which would not have mattered in the general.
2. it is well documented that every Senate Democrat endorsed Clinton before any of the primaries happened.
3. the Iowa Democratic primary was (suspiciously) won by a coin toss.
4. we most certainly did stay home. she did not court us, and it was one of the many reasons she lost. for that, Trump supporters should kiss our feet when they get the chance.
5. i thought, perhaps, that Trump had moved to the left on trade, war and healthcare. turns out those were lies. those lies probably made some of us think that the difference between Hillary and Trump wasn't great enough to bother voting, or made some of us think that he was worth their vote. again, neither of those things were true.
i voted for Hillary (begrudgingly) because it was apparent to me that a reality TV star with an animal pelt on his head who welshes his workers, used Polish immigrants to build his buildings, was indebted to the international banks he criticized, was a Democrat for most of his life, said Hillary Clinton was doing a great job as First Lady at the time, had a hard time doing anything faithfully (like marriage or executing the Office of President of the United States), trusted Roy Cohn of all people, had bankrupted his own assets and successfully ended the USFL probably wasn't President material.
by the way, it's not what he said at Charlottesville. that's a very literal interpretation of his press conference. i take issue with what he DIDN'T say. there may very well have been blame on both sides, given what was happening that day. the concept is that nobody cares about people who support Confederate monuments. if you really loved the military, you would know that Union troops are buried at West Point, but not Confederate troops. i know that because when i was 16, i asked that very question on a tour of West Point. a monument to foreign leaders (because the Confederacy was, by definition, a separate country) really doesn't belong here, especially if it stands for hateful ideologies. they did not have a point. if you support Confederate monuments, you support a country that America defeated, one which supported its economy with slavery, discrimination, racism and sexism. if you really take pride in that, you're a degenerate.
so i bit my tongue and voted for Hillary in order to keep Donny Tinyhands out of the White House. i failed. for some reason, 62 million people decided that this guy, who loves the economy but hates cheap labor from people who are willing to do it, who thinks that lowering taxes on people who pay the most taxes is good for poor people, who wanted to punish people for getting abortions, who thought a judge couldn't do his job because he was Mexican but loves law and order, who doesn't believe in big government but increased the deficit and loves redundant government agencies like ICE, who loves rich people but hates donors, who decries politicians but bought them anyway.......
62 million people thought that guy should lead the country.
thanks, Hillary, for letting that happen.
sincerely,
the future of America