In a call on Friday with campaign staff and volunteers, Hillary Clinton thanked her supporters for their help and acknowledged how tough her loss on Election Day was.
“I’m not going to sugarcoat it: These have been very, very tough days,” Clinton said in the call, according to the Huffington Post. “This is a tough time for our country. I think we have seen how people have been reacting to the events of this election and I know we have got to be reaching out to each other to keep it clear in our own minds that what we did is so important. It looks like we are on the path to winning the popular vote, and that says volumes about the importance of your work and the lasting impact it will have.”
But she told her supporters to keep fighting.
“Listen, this is a hard loss for all of us because we know what was at stake in this election and we’ve got to do everything we can to continue to support the causes we believe in. When you’re ready, I hope you will get back out there and keep fighting. I never thought this campaign was about one person or one election,” Clinton said, according to CNN.
Clinton thanked her campaign staff, telling supporters, “I believe in everything we fought for and I believe in you,” according to CNN.
Thank you for all you did, Mrs. Clinton.
I just finished writing a handwritten note to her (hardly ever do handwritten anymore), and I’m hurting all over again. FYI: P.O. Box 5256, New York, NY 10185-5256
I had an amazing revelation of the obvious: Elizabeth Warren is now the head of the Democratic Party. She’d damn well better be, anyway. Because from this point forward, there are only going to be Warren Democrats and Vichy Democrats. And I’m hoping there won’t be any of the latter.
Meanwhile, there may, just possibly, be someone in your life who will benefit from this website by gaining an understanding of what has already started happening. Someone who doesn’t think there’s any such thing as what some are calling “hashtag terrorism” and others call “stochastic terrorism.” That all these anecdotes we’ve been hearing are just anecdotal without realizing that at some point anecdotes accumulate into data.
Someone, who, as a few commenters here did when I dropped the words “white privilege” in a post, said that the reason we lost the election was because we neglected the needs of the angry white people “in favor of non-stop minority outreach on the other side of the country.”
http://whywereafraid.com/
There are a lot of people I know who are devoting a lot of energy to trying to convince themselves that maybe the Trump regime isn’t going to be as bad as we we fear. No worse, say, than GWB, as if that’s an encouraging metric. It’s the only way they can process it and deal with the fear, I think. The only way they can cling to their shattered faith in democracy. They are closing their eyes to the coming shit tsunami and will only acknowledge its existence when it batters down on them like a septic fecal hammer.
When they finally come to, they’re going to run to the shelter of Vichy if we aren’t already there, formed up, resisting and waiting for them to join us. Rally Around Liz, folks. Those of you fortunate enough to still have Democratic representation, write them goddamn letters, make phone calls and tell them to rally round Liz. Those of you with endangered Blue Dog reps, remind them that they will get no credit from their voters for aiding the enemy. None.
And those of you who see your fellow-countrymen being beset by goons, stand up. Fight back. Resist. Bravery is a good, thing, but it is an innate trait, a deficiency in your fear gene or, for many, an addiction to adreneline. Bravery wins fights, but it doesn’t win battles. That takes courage, the capacity to suck it up, stand up, put one foot in front of the other, and start fighting and keep on fighting on even though you’re so desparately afraid that your toilet training has failed. That’s the only way through this.
And yeah, if I sound very much like someone trying to convince himself there’s a path forward out of the darkness, a place of light on the other side of it that we can fight our way through to see, even if we can’t see it now, it’s because I am. And because even if I’m wrong, if my faith is misguided, at least it means being faithful to myself in the darkness.
Thank you. Just wrote my first letter in many many years.
Thanks for the info. Very much appreciated.