Democrats: you're never going to win BECAUSE...

Will the leadership of the Democrats ever learn?

Well, I'm sure they won't read this...and that's the reason how Trump won.

No, I am not claiming to be the font of all wisdom. What I am: is a nobody. An American nobody: white, former military, unemployed. 

Like it or not, Democrats, Trump knew precisely who to play to: the little man. The nobody. The guy without a job. The woman who is struggling to raise three kids on her own. The redneck who hated the black man in the White House.  The neo-Nazi Aryan brotherhood alt-right nutjob who hates anyone who isn't a white gun-toting male.
He played on their fears and worries. He played the Republican masses like a fiddle.

He already had the rich man in his corner. He promised his CEO buddies a place at the bitg table in exchange for their money..and he got it. THEM, he keeps his promises to. But not the little man. Still, he won, and he keeps his base. They adore him. Why? 

He is a SALESMAN. If you wonder why everything is a mucked up mess in D.C. right now, why he is so outrageously outrageous, why he can't say the truth if it kissed him..is because he is a salesman.

Salesman sell. They lie, they fabricate, they do everything they can to get you to buy.

Once he's made the sale, a salesman lets the techs, the experts, the manufacturers, etc to do the actual delivery. He don't do delivery. All he does is Sell the Product.

That's what Trump did, and even his own party is at a loss as to how to actually deliver what he promised...because he sold to them. Too. Because Trump, despite all his money, is a dreadful business man. But he IS a salesman.

There is an interesting...and unrecognized..resemblance between this most recent presidential election and the last one.

On Election Eve, Nov 2016, when the Electoral College votes rolled in, the Dems had the same deer in the headlights look the Republicans had in the Romney/Obama election.
That election had been bought and paid for by some very rich supporters of Romney, and he still lost.

 There were several reasons: Romney's utter disdain of people of color was so painfully obvious it was shameful. You could just see him wiping his hand on his trousers after shaking hands with the victorious Obama. Oooh, n word cooties. But I'll name just three:

Strike one was their ostentatious demonstration of the extremely wealthy. They were more than comfortable, they were disgustingly rich and proud of it. They didn't lower themselves to talking to the little man. No, they had People To Do That.
They wore their wealth as if they'd earned it. Oh, they believed that they Worked Hard For Their Money. (unlike the poor son of a bitch who's working two jobs and can't get more than minimum wage, because the CEO doesn't want to pay a living wage.) Let's forget that Mitt (who's real name is Willard) came from an extremely rich family. His father, George, had been Governor of Michigan and had made a fortune in the car industry. He also put his son on the fast track with the rich and powerful. ROmney's wife came from an equally rich family.

Strike two:  Well, let me quote Romney: "47 million Americans don't pay taxes!" 
If that had been true it was because 47 million Americans had NO JOBS. You don't have to pay taxes on money you don't earn. But Romney failed to say that. Worse, he blamed the victims. The guy out there in the unemployment office, the man who'd given up finding a job because of his age, the woman who was told her welfare and food stamps were something to be ashamed of, were made to feel like shit.


Strike 3: To quote Ann Romney, his simpering, condescending wife, who sniveled "I only paid $1000 for this blouse."
Whoa. A thousand bucks for a blouse and she sounds as if it's something from the Goodwill? Can't you feel her pain? That poor woman. Can't you feel sympathy? Can't you identify with the embarassment she felt, wearing such a cheap piece of fabric?
A thousand bucks for a blouse. Could this say "out of touch" with the little man any louder?
A thousand dollars for a blouse. That's half a mortgage payment. 
To be so effing out of touch

This is what Hillary projected: the same lack of realization, the same condescension. The same Out of Touch.

That is the Democratic party today. Out of touch, and unwilling to talk to the little man or people of color.

What the democrats fail to realize is: we didn't want Hillary Clinton. She forced herself onto the Democrats, and we didn't want her. We didn't want her when a black man ran for the office, and we didn't want her when she ran against Trump.

It's not just because she's Hillary Clinton-that was a killer from the start-, it's because the Democrats didn't sell her. They didn't sell anybody. They figured, hey, it's a shoe-in. Why bother. No  one can actually believe Trump will win.  We really don't give a shit about the little man, the nobody. We didn't go into the black neighborhoods and give them credit..because the black vote..combined with the white one..put Barack Obama in office. If there had been a lot of black men/women on the Democratic up there with Hillary, maybe things would have been different. We saw a lot of high powered women up with her. Politicans, like herself. Women in power. Women with money.

THe Dems lost because they ignored the little guy, the bottom feeders. Clinton stuck to the big cities. She talked like all politicians talked..but she didn't reach the little person. The one who pays her taxes and still doesn't see much in the way of response. The farmer who sees his crops going unpicked because he can't get Mexican laborers anymore to pick it. The guy who sees the government apparently ignoring him.
She didn't assure us that Bill wouldn't be in the White House, running things (or his hand up some intern's skirt). No, Bill was going to be there.  Same ol' Bill, oozing oil.

No, we were pretty sure things were going to be the same ol' same ol'...lots of talk but once the woman is in the White House, the little man is going to be ignored. Again.

That's one thing Obama had going for him. He was sincere. So was his wife. They talked to us like they were our neighbors. I felt as if I could go up to Michelle Obama and say, can I borrow a cup of sugar? and she'd say come on in, let's have coffee and talk first. You didn't get that with Hillary...nor, for that matter, with Bernie.

What did Trump do? He played to the white man's fears. Little brown people taking our jobs. No work and the government don't care. I lost my house. I can't find a job. It doesn't matter that Trump was lying, it was what the voter wanted to hear: Big Shot is finally HEARING me.   Those of us with any brains knew he was selling and lying...but there's an awful lot of stupid people out there. And even those few Republicans  with brains heard it, and thought, maybe, maybe this time it will work out.

Trump was a lot like a bible thumping evangelist: Believe and Ye Shall Be Saved. Well, there's a bunch of religious people out there who believe with all their heart despite all evidence to the contrary. Grampa is still dying of cancer. Uncle Bill is still an alcoholic. I can't find a job.  My husband never came back. She never paid me back. My car is still a piece of junk. My kid is still an addict. ...But they still pray and they still believe.

That's what Trumpists (Republicans) do. They Believe. Just like Jesus, who ain't come back yet, it's going to happen, just like The Donald Promised.  If I only believe hard enough, everything I've prayed for will come true.

 Mark Twain once said, "It's a lot easier to fool people than it is to convince them that they have been fooled."

If you want to regain ANYTHING of any consequence in Washington, Democrats, you are going to have to get down and dirty. You are going to have to convince the average voter that you care about him or her...despite her color, despite his unemployed status, despite the fact that he is living in his car. You're going to have to suck up to the little man. You're going to have to give that black guy the power. You're going to have to forego the glittering parties. You're going to have to include the little man at the big table.
We white Democrats can't do it alone. We don't have the numbers. We, the little people, are more than willing to have the help of the minorities...but YOU, the leadership, have to do the prosetylizing. 

Otherwise...you (and that includes me) are going to see Republicans win every single time.