Why Sanders lost, and why I think it matters.

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23. I agree with everything you said about President Obama, and would just add the following:

President Obama also faced a racist element that no previous President had encountered from day one with the Tea Party and Right Wing Talk Radio questioning every motive behind every action he took from day 1. When in this nation's history before Obama, when this country was in an economic crisis, had a major political party in this country met clandestine to orchestrate a plan to gain back the majority by sitting on their hands and watching Rome burn at the expense of their constituents. I consider those actions treasonous and this was the GOP.

Also Obama ran on a platform of ending the war in Iraq and bringing home our troops which was costing our Treasury billions of dollars. GWB failed to negotiate a Status of Forces Agreement with the Iraqi government prior to leaving office and when the agreement in place expired, Obama withdrew our troops. Soon afterwards the GOP want to blame him for everything that goes wrong in the middle east because he refused to leave troops there indefinitely, at an indeterminable cost to lives and treasure.

The GOP made the decision not to work with Obama to establish a jobs program that would get this nation back on its feet after the economic collapse of 2008 and they did it with the blessing of their base. So if their base is angry now because there are not jobs in their communities, and their college graduate children are living in their basements because they have no jobs, than they have no one to blame but themselves.

I as a POC and my relatives many who have college degrees have had many setbacks ourselves. But we have always been the last hired, first fired, so we get it. We've always known the system we were dealing with, and we have always survived because we always knew that those promises spelled out in the Bill of Rights were intended for us. Everything we have, we had to work for. And we've adjusted. I understand that it's a little more difficult when you have an entitlement mentality like Bernie Sanders and his supporters. And I don't mean that as a show of disrespect as I have lot of white friends and co-workers as the saying goes. It means that I know that my blessings come from the grace of God and my own hard work and not from man, so I'm not sitting by waiting for man to solve my problems.