2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: How Bernie's campaign contributed to Trump's win. [View all]Not Sure
(735 posts)The premise of this OP is bullshit. Bernie did everything to fall in line during the debates, during the admittedly rigged primaries and especially during the GE campaign. He got my household to hold our collective noses and vote for Hillary, which at the end of the day is what mattered. Again we voted straight D as we always do. Everyone I know who considered the economic inequality issues paramount in this campaign fell in line and voted. Everyone I know who was repulsed by that bigot Trump voted D. That was in large part due to encouragement by Bernie to not sit on the sidelines and to make our votes count. But he couldn't convince everybody, and frankly it wasn't his job to do so. Where the fuck was Hillary? Playing to not lose, of course. Which is always a great strategy, it always works /sarcasm. It's time for her and her DLC corporate bootlicker pals to step the fuck away. Just own it and go be the Republicans you so desperately want to be.
The loss is sqarely on the shoulders of a party that evolved into one that clearly does not give a shit about the systemic economic issues that continue to plague the working class of this country. This loss was delivered to the failed leaders of the Democratic Party by the very people who once made so much for this country, from actual manufactured goods to gains for all workers. They have been shit on and ignored ever since this DLC regime took over because come hell or high water they'd vote for a Democrat. They hate what has been done to them so much they'd just as soon burn the whole thing down than swallow another spoonful of medicine that only makes them sicker and doesn't work anyway. They threw the Molotov cocktail Michael Moore described at the people who have been pissing down our backs while telling us it's raining.
Until this party gets it's act together and throws out the likes of Hillary and her DLC pals who are too happy to give it all away for some fucking corporate sponsorship, you can consider me gone. This failed election, this catastrophic loss of every branch of the government is on your head. You did this. Until you figure that out, you will continue to lose and lose big. If people wanted a fucking Republican they would have voted for one, and as it turns out they did. Get the DINOs out of here and you can begin to solve these problems. Otherwise this is just a big back slapping group hug that's fucking useless.
I know I have a low post count, but I have reliably voted for Democrats for long before I registered with this website, which was during the still inexplicable aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. I have read it every day. But I am done here. This echo chamber will not solve the problems of the Democratic Party. It will also fail to understand and deal with (and outsmart) the Trump administration and its supporters.
Until you understand the problem is hero worship of these insincere career celebrity grifter politicians posing as grassroots citizens that plague and pollute this party for their own personal gain and acquistion of power you will continue to see it fail. The problem ain't Bernie. It ain't any mythical Bernie Bros boogeyman that you invented. The problem is you.