Oh America, what have you done?
Nov. 9th, 2016 03:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dagibbsI am saddened, frightened, worried, for all my friends down in the US. This is a horrible result.
The best I can read this, this is a desperate cry for change. Obama promised change, it got him elected, but he was unable to deliver the change wanted/needed. (One can argue that much of that reason was due to Republican obstruction, but that is a subtlety.) For all Hilary Clinton's strengths as a candidate, she was not a candidate for change. She was a candidate of status quo, with maybe some incremental improvements. She was clearly a main-stream political candidate, part of the existing political structure. Trump very clearly wasn't.
The best I can read this, this is a desperate cry for change. Obama promised change, it got him elected, but he was unable to deliver the change wanted/needed. (One can argue that much of that reason was due to Republican obstruction, but that is a subtlety.) For all Hilary Clinton's strengths as a candidate, she was not a candidate for change. She was a candidate of status quo, with maybe some incremental improvements. She was clearly a main-stream political candidate, part of the existing political structure. Trump very clearly wasn't.
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Date: 2016-11-10 03:58 pm (UTC)WbW's post-election post (http://waitbutwhy.com/2016/11/its-going-to-be-okay.html) is a decent sanity restorer, though.
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Date: 2016-11-10 05:22 pm (UTC)"People vote for hope and change when they’re in pain. When I watched the election last night, I didn’t see a bunch of assholes voting to be hateful, I saw a bunch of people going through a lot of suffering hoping for something better."