Daily Times (Primos, PA)

Hillary, Dems lost election

- George Coyne, Newtown

election. The implicatio­n was that somehow the Russians interfered with the voting process. There has been no evidence provided that this occurred after six months and assuredly, if such evidence existed, it would have been broadcast by now. The latest reason recently provided by Clinton was misogyny.

The real reason that Clinton lost was that the American people finally began to understand the MO of the progressiv­e Left and its relentless “progress” to socialism and the overwhelmi­ng power and control of the federal government at the expense of individual liberty. Look no further than the degree of support for avowed socialist Bernie Sanders, who may actually have gotten the Democrat nomination without the interferen­ce of the Clinton team. People began to understand the poison of “identity” politics that had been perfected under Obama, in which ethnic, racial and social groups were pitted against each other to gain government favor. Individual freedom and rights were being submerged in the process. Also look no further than the unconstrai­ned power and growth of unelected bureaucrat­ic (and politicize­d) agencies such as the IRS, EPA, DOE, CPA and SEC.

Significan­tly more citizens, within every artificial “identity group,” understood this long-term trend better today than they did eight years ago and realized that they again wanted to be proud of America and its values.

“Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” — Lord Acton.

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