Glenn Rocess
2 min readDec 9, 2019

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You obviously aren’t aware of the real reason Hillary lost. She’s been demonized by Fox, right-wing pundits, and right-wing preachers on a daily basis since the early 1990’s, and all the right-wing voters have heard for the past 20 years— other than “all news sources lie except for Fox” — has been “Hillary’s going to destroy democracy/America/Christianity!!!”

That, ma’am, is why she was so hated. Add to that (1) the very real (GOP-protected) Russian interference fanning the flames of hatred, (2) voter suppression efforts by the GOP after SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act, (3) all the gerrymandering of voting districts by the GOP since 2010, (4) billions of dollars of free publicity for Trump courtesy of our mainstream media, and (5) legions of Bernie Bros who either stayed home or voted for somebody else ‘cause Bernie didn’t get the Dem nod…

…and Hillary still won the popular vote by about 3 million. If even ONE of those factors had not been in play, then she’d be in the Oval today. Yes, the defection of the Bernie Bros alone was sufficient to cost her the election.

Sorry, but that doesn’t sound like “destroying the Democratic Party”. It sounds more like she united the Democratic Party…except, of course, for the Bernie Bros.

I suggest, ma’am, that you sit down in a quiet place with a hot cup of whichever tea you prefer, and wonder how right-wing (and even Russian) propaganda may have affected your own opinion of her…especially given that the #NeverHillary hashtag so popular among the Bernie Bros was also one of the top three hashtags pushed by Russian trolls.

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Glenn Rocess
Glenn Rocess

Written by Glenn Rocess

Retired Navy. Inveterate contrarian. If I haven’t done it, I’ve usually done something close.

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