@glitterbag,
glitterbag wrote:
Speaking as another snooty uppity over-educated female who dreams she might on some distant day be 'equal' but separate to more capable males, I think Hillary was soft on the deplorables. Her opposition actually believes they can continue to generate baseless outrage without any pushback. What a bunch of dopes. Only a moron thinks like that. The deplorables are drunk on the fumes of intolerance. Only a sissy would complain that someone hit back.
I thnk you missed the significance of what she said and did. She characterized "half of Trump supporters" as deplorable "Xenophobes, racists, homophobes, islamophobes", etc, thereby rather sweepingly characterizing whatever real concerns exist in those broad areas as exclusively a result of narrow minded prejudice. In effect she rejected the existence of any legitmate voter concerns in the areas of immigration and border control , race relations,the increasingly intrusive Federal government involvement in issues like rest rooms in public schools, increasing crime in our cities, and the traditional religious values of the many Americans, as simply prejudice. The fact is there are indeed real issues out there in each area and reasonable concerns behind them. Moreover they are indeed issues in this election.
I don't doubt that there is some element of narrow minded prejudice among Trump suporters in some of these areas , but Hillary had very clearly shown us all that there is also a major element of prejudice in the self-styled "liberals" (actually closet authoritarians) who oppose Trump.
She sneeringly mischaracterized large areas of her political opposition as stupid bigots. People aren't stupid and they quickly see through such self absorbed arrogance. I suspect Hillary will face some consequences for it.
