If you fought against Hillary Clinton after the Democratic convention,

[mikehiggins]

141. are we talking about the same election?

Sure, I was disappointed, though not surprised, that Sanders didn't win the nomination. As I posted long ago the entire Democratic establishment opposed him, having decided early on that HRC was to be the inevitable winner of the primary and the election. But once we got past the primary the basic fact remained: the anti-HRC forces would crawl naked over broken glass for the opportunity to vote against her.

Sanders was/is no messiah and he has a lot of baggage on his own (the gun thing, for one) but nobody claimed he took it for granted that he would win, or should win or deserved to win or whatever. A Trump/Sanders contest would have been a knock-down, drag out brawl in which no one would feel that he or she was being taken for granted, or dismissed. There would have been HUGE rallies across the board as two outsiders battled it out across the nation. THe news media would have enjoyed multiple orgasms as the pit-bulls tore at each other. It would have been a fight for the ages.

As it turned out all of the excitement and energy was corralled by Dumpf with no countervailing sense of enthusiasm from our side. And the end was hardly surprising, at least to an old guy like me.

Sure I, like most Bernistas, voted for HRC on election day. I didn't even have to hold my nose. She was/is clearly the most experienced, most qualified candidate anyone has seen in our lifetimes BUT Bozo beat her like he was the Wizard of Oz. Our side played the game the way it had been played for a long time. Bozo broke all the "rules" and now we are faced with a clown who lost the popular vote but so far has managed to gain a clear majority in the Electoral College.

As the old saying goes, we brought a knife to a gunfight.

Are we going to keep complaining about that or are we going to gear up for 2018?