Democrats loss was a loss for republicans as well

I just read an article about why the Democrats lost to Trump in the 2016 election.  They just cannot wrap their minds around why they lost.  I have been a lifelong democrat.  My father and his father were democrats.  The first time I voted for a republican for president was in 2016.  That was only the second republican I had voted for in 46 years.  I did not vote for Trump. I voted against both the republican and democratic establishments.  Here are my reasons and the reasons I will always be a registered independent for the rest of my life. 

A little history leading up to this decision is in order.  I have lived in Texas for over 40 years.  I have lived in South Texas and now in Central Texas.  I watched our schools go from educating the children to teaching for the test, to teaching for the illegals.  I have watched as more and more of our school budget gets spent on ESL classes so that we can teach those Hispanic students, most illegal, in their own language.  The outcome is that they do not learn anything and they most definitely do not learn English.  They are not interested in school.  The teaching-for-the-test began in the 1980's.  By this time, I had three young children in school.  My first child was put in the track system whereby children were taught on their ability to learn.  He was never bored in these classes.  Well, after his 4th grade year, we stopped that because it was making those who were not in the top classes feel inferior.  Then we went to ESl in all our schools.  Even less teaching.  Now we have kids graduate that cannot read, cannot add, cannot communicate at all.  But they have a diploma.

I remember the amnesty back in 1986.  The ink was not even dry before they were streaming across the border because if we had done it once we would do it again.  And of those 12 million offered citizenship, only about a third took it.  Most were here for what they could get until retirement and then they were going to go back "home."  All they wanted was an open border and security to do what they wanted while here.  Then we were graced with those waving the Mexican flag, flying it above our flag.  And we were blessed with them outright telling us that we would be in the majority within 20 years because the illegals were breeding more kids than the citizens and those kids would take over.  They would then change the immigration laws to suit themselves and their families.  Then we had Obama try and make them legal without any law enabling him to do so.  Now they are protesting in the streets demanding their "rights." 

Clinton packed her campaign with these so called Dreamers.  She sent these illegals door-to-door canvasing neighborhoods.  She promised them all citizenship.  She promised their extended families citizenship.  She stood on a stage and called the working class, 46%, deplorable because we would not support this crap.  And her agenda was for the uber rich, extreme left.  There was no middle ground and the rest of the country did not matter.  And she was surprised that she lost.  She should be surprised that she did as good as she did, but then every recent "citizen" voted for her.  So, no, the Democrats will not win back those they lost.  We are not that stupid.  They will always be trying to erase our borders and thereby erasing us.