I literally do blame the Democrats for Trump, and if you don’t, you weren’t paying attention.

Plenty of us were critiquing Clinton’s campaign on those merits and were consistently talked down to in shocker the same way we’re being talked down to now. Shocker, she lost. I remember saying a few weeks before the election “We’re about to get Brexited.” I put my vote down for Clinton, because Trump is fucking insane, and that was clear before he was President. It was clear in the fucking 1980’s.

Being able to critique our leaders is supposed to be what is the difference between us and conservative voters. They’re the cult who unquestioningly believes all the bullshit that comes out of Trump’s mouth and diapers. I find it weird that people think we should be more like them in regards to our leaders like that would be a good thing.

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This wasn’t even the political climate during the 2016 election. It wasn’t the political climate immediately after clinton

In fact I remember people being VERY harsh on democrats during the 2016 election.

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And I remember being shat on for having those opinions? Sorry?

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Again, by whom? I could say the same thing in different communities and some people would love it and others be enraged. I mean, criticize Trump in a conservative reddit sub in 2016 and you’d get instantly banned with a vulgar message from the mod.

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MetaFilter is actually where a lot of DC DNC members have accounts and have for a long time. It’s one of the places where you can get a good eye on actual professionals and what they’re thinking.

This has been a problem on MeFi forever and continues to be, just check out thread on Jeff Sharlet’s book The Undertow. Half of it is about how Chris Hedges must be a Russian shill, despite the same people loving Hedges during the Bush administration.

https://www.metafilter.com/202246/A-slow-civil-war

So yeah, people who actually work for the DNC at the national level, that’s who. Along with every shitty redditor in every halfway political sub. And just peruse this thread (gestures wildly) for current examples, thanks.

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People are always heated for political discussions, but that was not the discussion back then.

It was literally the first election I voted in. It was mostly people making fun of trump/hillary. It was definitely not a “not the time” kindof discussion. The bleak discussion currently going on is semi-recent.

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