Crooked Hillary!

I appreciate your optimism but it's not just about Trump. Republicans will now control the congress, senate, white house and the supreme court. They can pass any of their crazy bills, they can undo everything Obama did, pull out of the climate deal, start any war they want. You may say that America survived 8 years of Bush, but what were the effects of it for the rest of the world? Millions have died in Syria and Iraq, here in Europe we're dealing with a huge refugee problem that arguably would not be there without the mistakes Bush did during his presidency.

I'm not saying democracy doesn't work, it did. I'm simply voicing my opinion here about the result and my opinion is that it wasn't the educated choice to make or one that takes the world in the right direction.

HAHAHAHAHAH check out this guy, he thinks the republicans aren't in civil war right now

To be fair though, the polls also basically said Clinton was going to win. ultimately the question boils down to: where did it go wrong? did Trump overperform and disadvantages in the polls were largely because of question bias? (this would seem to be my guess, tbh.) or did Clinton underperform due a sort of Brexit mentality or because she took her Rust Belt safeties for granted and didn't campaign there enough? did Comey's last minute smoke-blow on the emails truly make a notable impact? it did in most polling models, so perhaps it shifted others in general as well.

it's hard to say whether or not Bernie would've won simply because the polls were consistently wrong about Trump to begin with. i do think Bernie perhaps would've stood a better chance, given his higher favorability among white men (classic) and in the Rust Belt area that Clinton ultimately lost, but then again, what would the campaign have looked like? would Americans really be ready for a self-avowed democratic socialist Jew? and i mean, Trump's ads already had elements of anti-Semitism playing into the usual "it's the Evil Jews behind it All," what kind of ammo would he have with that double threat of socialist and Jew?

tbh i just don't think there's any way to play what ifs with this election.

Bernie would have won, all Bernies votes did not go to Hillary for obvious reasons, but if Bernie would have won, all of her votes would have gone to him. If we had an alternatie voting set up, I'm pretty sure all of the undecideds/bernie butt hurts would have voted bernie as their first choice, and Hillary as their second, they wouldn't have looked at the third party candidates at all.