Beet
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« on: November 10, 2016, 12:23:38 PM » |
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By all accounts she is smart, knowledgeable, and experienced in politics. And she had the best advisers around her the Democratic party could muster.
So why is she always so inept as a politician? Bernie and Trump clearly showed the appeal of populism, yet she chose to run in the opposite direction. She adopted a lot of loser positions, like inserting gun control in the GE, and supporting a no-fly zone in Syria. Her husband once famously said that people would rather be "wrong and strong" than right and weak. Yet she based her campaign on a moral appeal to people's compassion, insisting the election was about "who we are", implying that you're not a good person if you don't vote for her. Whereas Trump appealed to people's self interest. Besides that, she tends to make her campaigns about bloodless soporific superlatives like experience, temperament, and qualifications that inspire no one.
In my humble opinion all of the above, represent an unusual degree of political incompetence, than should be expected of someone at her level. She's no Sarah Palin. So why couldn't she be more politically savvy?
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