A change election

That's what Hartmann and other pundits are saying to explain the results. People are tired of the entire system because it's not working for them. So instead of the usual tired candidates they wanted an outsider that will change the system. Clinton is obviously a big part of the very system that people feel has abandoned them. Granted Trump is unlikely to actually change much if anything, but at least he was campaigning on a corrupt system that needed change.

Clinton's campaign indeed abandoned the working class and focused on their elite, wealthy donors and the professional class, a strategy that has bigly failed the Democratic Party in the 2010 and 2014 mid-terms. And they still haven't learned, continuing the very establishment agenda that works in their models and fantasies but doesn't play out with average working Americans.


Now the Dem Party did have a change candidate in Sanders that touched the very same people Trump did, the disaffected by a corrupt system. Unlike Trump though Sanders not only explained how things were wrong but how to make them right. His policy proposals won majority approval in virtually every poll. And he likely would have won at least some of those Trump voters given he also appealed to that vast demographic. Even way back when in the primaries Sanders fared much better than Clinton in a race against Trump. And if he were the Dem nominee we'd likely have a different outcome today.

But no sense crying over spilled milk. We do need a progressive change in this country and we will not get it with Trump and the GOP. And we will also not get it with the Dem Party that has sold out to the corporate oligarchs and the privileged professional class. It really is time for progressives to abandon the Dem Party and use their resources to either join the Green Party to make it viable or form another third party that represents the vast majority of people in this country. The vote was a bigly 'fuck you' to the system, and the Dem Party is part of that system.