But god damn a Trump v. Sanders race would have been entertaining, and I blame Clinton, Wassweman-Schultz and the DNC machine for denying us that pure choice. A generational opportunity squandered for greed and hubris.
I agree, I may have actually watched the election instead of turning off all media, including Facebook, in August of that year when it just got far too bad.
The trigger for me was walking into a friend's living room where CNN was playing and seeing Wolf Blitzer talking about latest events blatantly using the term "we" when talking about what needed to be done to stop Trump. Something like "how do we....". It was like I walked in on a DNC headquarters briefing. My Facebook feed on both sides was also absurd.
The free stuff talking point is nonsense.
Overall people are not seeking free stuff, but they do want to have dignity and work, and some kind of way to live in order to be able to provide for families.. pump out babies, raise families and enjoy their short time on earth.
Maybe "free stuff" is infrastructure that is needed that is not going to just happen by itself without community involvement (which is another way of saying government)? Yeah, of course, government becomes dominated by a small group of rich folks and corporations, so the peeps receiving the "free stuff" in actuality end up being BIG money that plays the system to their advantage, and the "free stuff" does not tend to get distributed broadly, as the claims are made that social benefits are draining the public coffers when in fact the ones sucking off the public tit the most tend to be well off already.
I'm all for free stuff. I bet I can one-up anyone on the amount of free stuff I want to
have give away. Try me. You're definitely not as caring as I am when it comes to the government giving out free stuff (why don't you want free food for kids? Do you hate children?).
But the extortion part...not a fan.