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To: marcher who wrote (125505)	11/30/2016 5:56:46 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219765

I am a Bernie bros as are most of my clan and friends. We worked hard to defeat Hillary. But we also understood first and foremost this election was about power. Who would get it and who wouldn't. It was not about Hillary, or Trump nearly as much as it was about whether the common man was going to have power, or the rich plutocrats were going to have power, ---over the common man, us. That was the thesis of this election. We went into this election 65th in the world in income inequality and pretty much as a plutocratic oligarchy. We liberals were really angry with Obama for kowtowing to Republicans so often. Everybody forgets that the ACA was Mitt Romney's idea originally. Obama thought by co-opting the Republican idea he could get it through Congress. He really tried to work with the pubs, almost more than we liberals, much to our chagrin. But the pubs were so set on just defeating anything he did that he barely got the ACA through. And he took single-payer universal healthcare off the table before he ever started. Which upset we liberals once again. But I digress, it was about power and we have been emasculated. The perfect metaphor is the fact that the extreme right wing, are going to have probably seven Supreme Court justices for the next 30 years. These guys will be the foundation of our democracy and we're going to pay a big price. Civil rights and freedom will endure great losses. Trump is already talking about controls on the internet and free press. For the last hundred years the liberals have fought to help the poor and the worker. Republican and Democrat it didn't matter, it was in their DNA to help. But the grand irony is that those same people to a large degree defeated the very people that have always been there to help them because they do not like our culture. The plutocrats coopted them by saying: "look, we are like you, we hate gays and love god and guns" So the Republican worker threw their lot in with the Republicans who have always represented the rich. For 100 years we've all known that the Democratic Party was the party of the worker and Republican Party was the party of the rich, the plutocrats. We dems have no power now and the plutocrats have all the power and they are going to rain hell down on us, and the country, anywhere they can and exploit us. Specifically they will get rid of all the regulations that protect people, like usery and monopolies, or cost money like corporate environmental costs. Rape the national forests, cut down the trees, mine the minerals, pour pollutants into the streams and lakes, etc. Power was what this election was about. The rich hit a grand slam. We middle class are now powerless and the poor are in big trouble.