Alienation

What can I say about alienation?  Democrats just now are blaming their loss to Trump on people who were too alienated to vote for them, but won't take any responsibility for alienating them in the first place! If the Democratic primary had been an election for president of the Teamsters union, the government would have made them redo it.  As far as I'm concerned, Hillary Clinton deserved to lose even more votes than she actually did.

Remember the movie Alien?  It had one of the scariest trailers ever! (I remember seeing the trailer as a teenager.) It led to the sequel Aliens, which has this scene with Sigourney Weaver in a hospital bed and Paul Reiser comes in and tells her a whole lot of exposition, then at the end of the scene she suddenly gives birth to an alien mutant, and she wakes up from what turns out to have been a nightmare!  My question is, does that mean that the exposition was just a dream too?

I don't care for that kind cinematic cheap trick with an attention-grabbing scene that goes against the "rules" and turns out to be "just kidding." (There was a nightmare scene like that in The Fly, which came out around the same time.) Another example was in that Batman movie The Dark Knight, with a scene where Commission Gordon gets killed, when the "rules" say they can't kill off a regular character like him.  But later it turns out that he faked his own death to protect his family.  Just kidding!