2016 Postmortem

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at him, but even our own party wont try, and it will still have had little to do with his win.

But American media, from television, to internet to talk radio did do so. Why does anybody believe that some fake news and some Wikileaks have the power to do this without the preponderance of consent evidenced in our own corporate messaging?

In an alternate universe where we have an actual fourth estate, there is no way 46 percent of the voting public votes in a man like Trump. For that matter, there's no way that only 56 percent of eligible voters vote, due to condoned abdication, disaffection, voter purging, election tampering, etc... You want to hand wring about a couple percent of the vote(which if stolen was still only made possible by our media here), that's fine, but that is missing the big con again.

What's sad is that this is the story Democrats want to focus on. Don't get me wrong. We should damage Trump where we can and make him look illegitimate. He is by my own metric. I'm down for that, so it's not like I don't appreciate hanging Putin's loving arms around his neck, even if all we get out of it is to make the Don look shitty, but i'm not particularly okay with our leaders helping to distract us from the shit that just lost them--US-- another election, and is going to continue to lose us elections until we start fighting back. I have a very real fear that even when we lose, our leadership would rather us not see behind the curtain to the mechanisms that delivered that loss, and that's pretty disheartening.