2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: How Bernie's campaign contributed to Trump's win. [View all]synergie
(1,901 posts)I don't think he had an intention to win when he got in, but he did himself no favors with the rhetoric he chose to use, which failed to convince the majority of voters to pick him. Not sure what actually hurt the candidate that actually won a historically large number of votes, but the savagery and damage he did in helping Trump and toxifying an entire generation of young people who apparently were never taught the basics of how government works, did hurt us as a country.
Who knew his utter failure to have any effect on those he sold a bill of goods would land us Trump? Oh right, people like the us, who kept warning the die hard supporters of Bernie that they were falling prey to manipulations by the RW and other nefarious characters who were feeding them total lies? We were threatened, abused, harassed and hounded into enforced silence for warning them what would happen if they put their purity and their fond RW lies over the truth and the best interests of the nation, but would they listen?
You were wrong, and the reasons you were wrong were that you were too gullible and too invested in RW hatred of the Democrat and that you literally believed EVERY lie they fed you. Trump won due to a 100,000 votes, because people in key states were too "pure" and too arrogant to bother to vote, or who refused to vote against Trump for the only candidate that was feasible.
I wish you guys had figured out what we were telling you about how pointless a "purity" vote was or bothered to do your homework, or listened when we pointed out that RW lunacy was indistinguishable from the things you were saying, sadly you would not listen, and you were wrong. And yes, we did tell you so.